Participation:

• Perfect Attendance [participation]
• Reading Oral Summary [participation]
• Propose your own task!
• Bring examples of women in African drumming to class [participation]
• Mini-lecture on convent life [participation]
• Women in opera plots [participation]
• The “woman composer question” questions [participation]
• Dressing for success (or failure!) [participation]
• Blackboard engagement [participation]
• How not to write about female musicians: examples [participation]
• Living women composers: examples [participation]

Critical Writing:

• Listening and Gender [critical writing]
• Propose your own task!
• Write a response paper to a supplemental reading [critical writing]
• Concert report [critical writing]
• Historiography paper [critical writing]
• Cross-cultural perspectives paper [critical writing]
• Gender in Medieval lyrics paper [critical writing]
• Men’s and women’s musical spheres [critical writing]
• “Suppression of Fanny Mendelssohn” response paper [critical writing]
• Suffrage song analyses [critical writing]
• Response paper to “Free to Be You and Me” [critical writing]
• Gender in heavy metal or rap [critical writing]
• Respond to Camille Paglia on Katy Perry and Taylor Swift [critical writing]

Research:

• Answers to the “woman composer question” [research]
• Propose your own task!
• Interview/oral history [research]
• Wikipedia improvement [research]
• Search Hildegard’s writings [research]
• Female musicians in Renaissance art [research]
• Virtuosa in 17th- and 18th-century Europe [research]
• Women making music in 19th-century fiction [research]
• Women’s music clubs and orchestras [research]
• Chorus girls [research]
• Blueswomen: other views [research]