Give a Social Movement a Soundtrack: Exploring Social Justice Through Music

Overview

Explore the powerful intersection of music and social justice movements in this 4-hour course that examines how soundtracks have shaped and amplified calls for change throughout history. Cultivate personal and professional learning through three interconnected dimensions: developing your inner meditator for reflection and peace, unleashing your artist for creativity and expression, and strengthening your warrior spirit for resilient action. Apply mindful learning tools and resources that foster compassion, connection, and understanding while engaging with the complex, interdependent relationships between music, community, and social transformation. Navigate uncertainty through futures literacy and systems thinking to understand how musical movements create ripple effects across society, economics, and wellbeing. Practice sustainable thinking and holistic approaches that connect nature, technology, media, and social change through the lens of musical activism. Design student-centered learning experiences that develop empathy and global citizenship skills by analyzing how music builds bridges between diverse communities and movements. Share your transformation through interactive activities, online discussions, video reflections, live seminars, and a comprehensive portfolio documenting your journey in understanding music as a catalyst for social justice and meaningful change.

Syllabus

Be Engaged: Cultivate personal and professional learning connected to our inner meditator (reflection, insight, peace), artist (creativity, joy, expression), and warrior (resilience, courage, peaceful action).
Live and Learn Mindfully: In our lives and teaching, apply tools, resources, and skills that cultivate opportunities for greater compassion, connection, understanding, and action.
Embrace Change and Interbeing: Be brave and engage with complexity and uncertainty through futures literacy, systems thinking, and deep ecology to understand how the interdependent nature of ourselves, our community, and our planet can lead to diverse and meaningful learning and action.
Demonstrate Sustainable and Inner-Development: Practice with and integrate a range of shared tools, resources and skills for thinking and acting sustainably and holistically for nature, economics, media and technology, society, and wellbeing.
Interpret and Create: Understand and design student-centered, Empathy to Impact learning experiences that bring out skills and dispositions of holistic global citizenship in learners.
Interact and Evolve: Share your personal and professional transformation with our learning community through activities, online forums, video reflections, live interactive seminars, and a portfolio or story that captures your journey and application of learning.