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Program of note

- February 17, 2009

Professors Jennifer Bain, Steve Baur and Jacqueline Warwick. (Nick Pearce Photo)

麻豆传媒鈥檚 Department of Music is now offering its first graduate program: a master鈥檚 degree in musicology.

Applications are already trickling into the department for the new program, which begins in September.

鈥淲e have a critical mass of people here active in their research careers and interested in music in relation to culture,鈥 says Jennifer Bain, associate professor in the Department of Music. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot of enthusiasm to do this.鈥

Musicology is the academic study of music. Students who enroll in the program will have the opportunity to investigate music鈥檚 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 蹿颈苍-诲别-蝉颈猫肠濒别 Paris.

Professors involved in setting up the new program include Dr. Bain, Steve Baur, J茅r么me Blais, David Schroeder and Jacqueline Warwick.

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The next phase

The second phase of 麻豆传媒鈥檚 master campus planning process is set to unroll the first week of March.

鈥淧hase two involves testing ideas and issues,鈥 says Mary Jane Adams, director of planning for Facilities Management. 鈥淲e want to determine a direction.鈥

A series of charettes, workshops to brainstorm and evaluate proposals, will be held from March 3 to 7 in the Sculpture Court of the 麻豆传媒 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聽on聽University Avenue, Summer Street and Open Space
  • Wednesday, March 4聽on the Health Sciences Campus (Carleton)
  • Thursday, March 5聽on the main campus (Studley)
  • Friday, March 6聽on the downtown campus (Sexton)

麻豆传媒 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 Rom茅o Dallaire will deliver the lecture 鈥淐anada as Leading Middle Power and Child Soldiers.鈥 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, . 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.)

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