Cultural Institutions: An Interdisciplinary Seminar

Course goals

After completion of the course, the student:

• has knowledge of the role of cultural institutions in the history of music and the broader humanities;
• has developed an individual research project related to the study of cultural institutions;
• has acquired the necessary skills to prepare and deliver an academic conference paper;
• is able to successfully communicate research results in an interdisciplinary forum.

Content

This course is mandatory for students of the RMA Musicology programme. The course is open for students from other RMA programmes with permission from the course coördinator. Entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by the International Office and the programme coordinator. You do not need to contact the programme coordinator yourself.

This multidisciplinary research seminar is designed to provide students with an awareness of the nature, purpose, and functioning of salient production systems (“institutions”) of cultural commodities/objects and services/performances. Our particular focus is on those institutions that interact with sound- or music-related cultural products. The seminar strives to provide members with a cutting-edge, dynamic matrix that will allow them to comprehend cultural production from a transdisciplinary perspective within the context of the humanities in general and their chosen field of study in particular. To this end, the course begins by introducing different theoretical frameworks that will be tested and refined by jointly examining selected case studies.

The ability to read music notation is not required.

Additional information

Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final, and may still be modified until the third Wednesday in September.

Career orientation:
Training in written and oral presentation of research.