Program Overview

Course Overview

Course Description

The course "Music in everyday life" (MUSV3142) explores the role of music in daily life, its impact on emotions, identity, and well-being. It delves into the effects of music on human beings, including its potential to manipulate and irritate, as well as its benefits for health and self-therapy.

Course Details

Course Content

The course content is based on contemporary interdisciplinary research in music psychology and music sociology. It addresses questions such as the impact of listening to music on concentration, the effects of music in advertisements, and the role of music in shaping identity. The course is interactive, featuring theory, practical exercises, experiments with music listening, reading, discussions, and self-reflection.

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

A candidate who successfully completes MUSV3142 will:

• Understand how music can affect human beings emotionally, socially, and from an identity perspective.
• Have knowledge on how music's role in human beings' lives is viewed from different theoretical perspectives.
• Have acquired a deepened understanding of their own relationship to music.

Skills

A candidate who successfully completes MUSV3142 can:

• Theoretically explain and discuss how and why music affects human beings from different interdisciplinary perspectives.
• Use music consciously to reach specific emotional moods and states, for themselves and others.
• Consciously evaluate music in public spaces.
• Present their own thoughts and views in current debates, in a coherent and convincing form both orally and in writing.

Learning Methods and Activities

The course consists of lectures and seminars with compulsory attendance (at least 80%), active participation, completion of continuous writing assignments, and group assignments for reflection and in-depth study. Students are expected to be well-prepared and ready to engage in discussions during lectures and seminars.

Compulsory Assignments

• Attendance at lectures and seminars (at least 80%)
• Writing of reflections and reading and commenting on each other's reflections
• Participation in group work in small and large groups between lectures

Evaluation

Assessment consists of:

1. One semester essay (6-8 pages, font size 12, line spacing 1.5)
2. Contributions to a group reflection journal (3-4 pages, font size 12, line spacing 1.5)
3. An observation report from a community music event such as a choir/band rehearsal or a performance/concert (2-3 pages, font size 12, line spacing 1.5)

If the course is not passed, the student must only retake the part of the assessment that was not passed. If the candidate takes a new exam, it is not necessary to take the compulsory assignments again.

Specific Conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:

• Creative Music Technology (MMUST)
• Music Performance (MMUSP)
• Music Performance Studies (BMUSP)
• Music Performance Studies - Jazz (BMUSK)
• Music Technology (BMUST)
• Musicology (BMUSV)
• Musicology (MMUSV)

Subject Areas

• Health Science
• Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
• Music Theory
• Neuroscience
• Musicology

Examination

Examination arrangement: Portfolio assessment Grade: Letter grades

Credits and Level

• Credits: 7.5
• Level: Second degree level
• Language of instruction: Norwegian
• Location: Trondheim