Archived: 2025-2026 Graduate Course Listings

Fall 2025-Winter 2026

MUSI 4201B Music and Disability – Winter Term

• INSTRUCTOR: James Deaville
• DESCRIPTION: Disability Studies has emerged in recent years as an interdisciplinary field that productively engages in the analysis of culture in its various manifestations. The arts are particularly well suited for such inquiry, given the rich and diverse history of interactions between literature, art, film and music with disability. This course will investigate the varied and complex intersections between music and disability in the past and present. Topics will include disability as metaphor, disability and musical performance, representations of disability in classical and popular music, and music and invisible and intellectual disability. Our primary text will be the Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, but other material will also be used. Primary determinants of grading are class participation and presentations and a major research essay.
• METHOD OF EVALUATION: Participation, Essay, Presentation on Reading, Take-Home Exam
• READINGS: Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies and TBA
• CROSS-LISTED WITH: MUSI 4201

MUSI 5002 Research Methods in Music and Culture – Fall Term

• INSTRUCTOR: Anna Hoefnagels
• DESCRIPTION: This course provides students with a grounding in research methods in music and culture, applying concepts, processes and practices to students’ individual research projects. Topics addressed in class meetings will include: research processes and design; approaches to reading, writing and citational practices; ethics; analysis; and various methodologies relevant for studies in music and culture.
• METHOD OF EVALUATION: Student evaluation will be based on 1) numerous components of their individual research project (abstract, annotated bibliography, article discussion/facilitation, conference presentation, final paper); short presentations; attendance and participation in weekly class meetings
• READINGS: Online readings

MUSI 5015W Music, Migration and Diaspora in Canada – Winter Term

• INSTRUCTOR: Anna Hoefnagels
• DESCRIPTION: Through case studies of various music traditions found in Canada, we will examine the diversity of musics found in Canada and the ways that music facilitates belonging and/or exclusion to community. Particular focus will be placed on questions of Canadian identity, cultural diversity and multiculturalism – in theory and practice – in Canada.
• METHOD OF EVALUATION: Participation, reading responses, presentation(s), individual research project, take-home exam
• READINGS: Online readings
• CROSS-LISTED WITH: MUSI 4104A