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| Professors Jennifer Bain, Steve Baur and Jacqueline Warwick. (Nick Pearce Photo) |
Dalhousie’s Department of Music is now offering its first graduate program: a master’s degree in musicology.
Applications are already trickling into the department for the new program, which begins in September.
“We have a critical mass of people here active in their research careers and interested in music in relation to culture,” says Jennifer Bain, associate professor in the Department of Music. “There’s a lot of enthusiasm to do this.”
Musicology is the academic study of music. Students who enroll in the program will have the opportunity to investigate music’s role and meaning in social and historical contexts, through text-based analysis informed by cultural studies. Seminars will focus on specific composers, eras and genres, an example being the music and culture in fin-de-siècle Paris.
Professors involved in setting up the new program include Dr. Bain, Steve Baur, Jérôme Blais, David Schroeder and Jacqueline Warwick.
LINK: MA in Musicology, Department of Music
The next phase
The second phase of Dalhousie’s master campus planning process is set to unroll the first week of March.
“Phase two involves testing ideas and issues,” says Mary Jane Adams, director of planning for Facilities Management. “We want to determine a direction.”
A series of charettes, workshops to brainstorm and evaluate proposals, will be held from March 3 to 7 in the Sculpture Court of the Dalhousie Arts Centre. All open, public sessions begin at 6 p.m. and run to 7:30 p.m.
The days and topics are:
- Tuesday, March 3 on University Avenue, Summer Street and Open Space
- Wednesday, March 4 on the Health Sciences Campus (Carleton)
- Thursday, March 5 on the main campus (Studley)
- Friday, March 6 on the downtown campus (Sexton)
Dalhousie engaged IBI Group in the summer of last year to develop the campus plan. Once Phase Two is completed, IBI will take the information and begin planning for the third and last phase. It will provide the framework for implementation of the master plan.
Romeo Dallaire coming to campus
Retired lieutenant-general Roméo Dallaire will deliver the lecture “Canada as Leading Middle Power and Child Soldiers.” The lecture is presented by the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, in conjunction with the fifth annual graduate symposium on geopolitics and global governance.
The lecture takes place Thursday, March 5, 9 a.m. in the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Dalhousie Arts Centre. Tickets are $17.50 or $13.50 for students if purchased before Thursday, Feb. 19. Call the box office at 494-3820. All proceeds will go to the nonprofit organization Child Soldiers Initiative. (The Centre for Foreign Policy Studies is an associate member of the Child Soldiers Initiative.)