Course Description
A course designed to acquaint students with the techniques, tools, and methodologies used in music therapy research.
Athena Title
Research in Music Therapy
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The course includes the professor's analysis and summary presentation of an assigned research study each week. The students will find, read, analyze, and give summary presentations of research articles that are related to the “assigned reading” of the week. The knowledge and skills learned in the course will include the following: Translate theories, issues, and problems in clinical practice, supervision, administration, and higher education into meaningful research hypotheses or guiding questions; use various appropriate methods of data analysis; acknowledge one's own biases and personal limitations related to research; evaluate research with regard to research questions and problems, methods, procedures, data collection, analysis, and conclusions.
Topical Outline
Comprehensive Literature Review Research Hypotheses Data Analysis Identification of Biases and Personal Limitations Research Evaluation
Syllabus
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