Abstract
A physics professor teaching Indian classical music to American students? This successful cross- disciplinary teaching experience offers many lessons for instructors who find themselves teaching in settings that are not part of their typical professional preparation. In the case study presented here, the presenters – the professor and one of the students in the course – participated in the first ever formal offering of Indian classical music at a small university. The issues of culture are twofold – the assessment and teaching culture of the sciences that the instructor was familiar with versus the demands of assessment in a performing arts course; similarly the culture of the physics content itself and its emotional impact on students (often negative) versus the culture of Indian music and the (often positive) emotional impact of music. Come see video clips of the student performances that were the culmination of the course!
Location
Room 1909
Recommended Citation
Chaudhury, Raj and Hull, Jonathan, "Cross-Disciplinary Teaching: Bridging Cultural Divides" (2009). SoTL Commons Conference. 54.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2009/54
Cross-Disciplinary Teaching: Bridging Cultural Divides
Room 1909
A physics professor teaching Indian classical music to American students? This successful cross- disciplinary teaching experience offers many lessons for instructors who find themselves teaching in settings that are not part of their typical professional preparation. In the case study presented here, the presenters – the professor and one of the students in the course – participated in the first ever formal offering of Indian classical music at a small university. The issues of culture are twofold – the assessment and teaching culture of the sciences that the instructor was familiar with versus the demands of assessment in a performing arts course; similarly the culture of the physics content itself and its emotional impact on students (often negative) versus the culture of Indian music and the (often positive) emotional impact of music. Come see video clips of the student performances that were the culmination of the course!
