MUSC 145 - Introduction to Performance Awareness

Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45

Students will be introduced to the intersection between spiritual, emotional, physical and mental health and successful music performance achievement. Students will explore a broad range of approaches to health and their relation to diverse realms of performance in music and other performing arts, as well as reference performance training modalities in sports, school and other professional disciplines. Guest lectures from an array of music professions, including health experts as well as multi-disciplinary performers, will discuss divergent ways of thinking about the nature of optimal performance. Students will be exposed to a variety of support resources and services available to them in the community. Course work will focus on the practical application of healthy strategies that will optimize the students’ music-related performance work.

Prerequisites
One of:

C in English 11
C in Camosun Alternative
C in ENGL 050 (if taken prior to September 2020)