Tasks you can do at any time:
- Blackboard engagement [participation]
- Wikipedia improvement [research]
- Interview/oral history [research]
- Concert report [critical writing]
- Write a response paper to a supplemental reading [critical writing]
- Propose your own task!
- Reading Oral Summary [participation]
- Perfect Attendance [participation]
Unit 1 Tasks:
- Bring examples of women in African drumming to class [participation]
- Cross-cultural perspectives paper [critical writing]
- Historiography paper [critical writing]
- Listening and Gender [critical writing]
Unit 2 Tasks:
- Mini-lecture on convent life [participation]
- Female musicians in Renaissance art [research]
- Gender in Medieval lyrics paper [critical writing]
- Search Hildegard’s writings [research]
Unit 3 Tasks:
- Women making music in 19th-century fiction [research]
- “Suppression of Fanny Mendelssohn” response paper [critical writing]
- Virtuosa in 17th- and 18th-century Europe [research]
- Men’s and women’s musical spheres [critical writing]
Unit 4 Tasks:
- The “woman composer question” questions [participation]
- Women’s music clubs and orchestras [research]
- Women in opera plots [participation]
- Answers to the “woman composer question” [research]
Unit 5 Tasks:
- Dressing for success (or failure!) [participation]
- Suffrage song analyses [critical writing]
- Chorus girls [research]
Unit 6 Tasks:
- Gender in heavy metal or rap [critical writing]
- How not to write about female musicians: examples [participation]
- Response paper to “Free to Be You and Me” [critical writing]
- Blueswomen: other views [research]
Unit 7 Tasks: