Sense of Belonging in Community College Music Ensembles

  • Are community college music ensembles a place where music students develop sense of belonging in music by engaging in music-making with members from a diverse community?

  • Does social and musical interaction within these musical communities develop students’ sense of belonging and encourage them toward transferring?

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Co-Curricular Transcript Student Experience

  • The co-curricular transcript (CCT) documents student activities that happen outside of the classroom but within the university.

  • This study uses a mixed methods approach (surveys, focus groups, think alouds, etc.) to understanding the student experience of the CCT platform

  • We use research findings to generate reports about students’ CCT experiences and make recommendations for the development of the platform to various stakeholders

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Musical Garden Paths

  • Investigating the cognitive connection between musical harmony and linguistic syntax using the garden path paradigm.

  • How are harmonic modulations using pivot chords processed in comparison to garden path sentences?

  • Does syntactical processing occur in cognitive domains outside of language?

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