Class discussions will address also the creative and innovative employment of music, as well as its implications for social life beyond the immediate religious contexts. Students will be encouraged to develop comparative but critical perspectives by applying class examples and concepts to specific non-African contexts or examples in the field. Mbiti, John S. Introduction to African Religion . A combination of points and letter grades and averaging will be employed, but instructor has the discretion to favor a particular system. One meeting of the final week will be devoted to oral summaries of individual research papers .
Attendance is mandatory, and participation in class discussions is highly encouraged.
Make-up exams will be allowed only under special circumstances. An unexcused absence from an exam or quiz will result in failure of it. A research paper or assignment that is composed mostly of unacknowledged sources will be treated as a case of plagiarism, and after a consultation with the student concerned. Identifiable cases will be processed according to university regulations . You can post research questions and receive feedback from Newsgroups and Listservs, as well as by direct email from musicians' homepages.