2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 26, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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FA 361 Music & the Mind


3 credits

This course explores the cognitive foundations of music through the intersection of psychology and music.  Key topics include perceptual organization; biological responses to music; and music’s role in representing the shifting diagnostic categories of melancholy, madness, and depression. Particular emphasis is placed on investigating the ways in which various concepts of the mind influence our health from both historical and contemporary perspectives.



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