MUSIC364

Project-based course exploring the impact of music on human behavior using evidence of user engagement with music in large-scale datasets including publicly available industrial and social-media data and corpuses published for research purposes. Data-driven research complements laboratory-based behavioral and imaging research by focusing on framing and addressing music-related questions using pre-existing datasets. Class meetings include lectures, guest speakers, and student discussions of background literature and projects. Assignments include weekly readings, labs, and a final project. Basic musical proficiency is required. Experience with programming, data visualization, statistics, or music cognition is desirable.