Margaret Young

Young will transform two courses with a low support and racial justice grant. For the low support grant, openly licensed materials will be curated to give students an overview of music for wellness and help them apply those principles to the context of drumming with patients. This will include content from the fields of music therapy, rhythmic entertainment, drumming skills and Parkinson’s Disease and its treatments.

Racial Justice grant funds will be utilized to curate an assignment for students in The Informed Beginning Pianist. This assignment will ask students to view a piano recital that highlights a composer from an underrepresented group. Course materials will also feature music from various traditions and feature diverse composers.