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Learner Reviews & Feedback for How Music Can Change Your Life by The University of Melbourne

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About the Course

Did you ever wonder how music works? This course provides free video, audio and journal resources that explain six basic principles about how music can influence individual and community health and wellbeing. From biology and neuroscience, to psychotherapy and politics, the ways we engage with music can make all the difference. Music has always played an integral role in the lives of individuals and communities all around the globe. This course explores the ways that music can be used to achieve positive changes with a particular emphasis on the most vulnerable persons. Six different understandings will be explored, each with their own set of values and assumptions. The greatest thinkers in each approach believe that their way of explaining the power of music is right, but we will show that understanding music in its entirety delivers the best results in each unique circumstance. Once we understand the various ways that music can change the world, we can make informed decisions about how best to employ its extraordinary power. Learners who engage in this MOOC can expect to both deepen and broaden their understanding of how music can be used with individuals, groups and communities. Specifically: • To distinguish between how music works on the body, in the brain, through the unconscious, for bonding, as political action and in reflecting culture, • To design practical programs that utilise music to support individuals, groups and communities based on examples shared in the ‘on-site’ case studies. View the MOOC promotional video here: http://tinyurl.com/jnde3w3...

Top reviews

L

May 25, 2020

This course was well structured, informative and very interesting. As a music teacher, who works with special needs children and adults, I found it very helpful.

LY

Feb 3, 2018

wonderfully insightful and completely inspiring! I gained so much from the course and am excited to apply why I have learned in my work context!

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By Belén M S

Oct 27, 2018

I am loving the course eventhough I think it is too specialized and I can not work as a Music Therapy just with this course. It is a complementary course to people studing music, music therapy or any kind of fisiotherapy. The materials are great and very clear!

By Esther Z L

Sep 30, 2019

Aside from finding the accent difficult at times, I enjoyed auditing this course.

By Koos J

Jul 23, 2017

Excellent course. Treat yourself to this gem.

By Sophie R

Sep 2, 2016

Just excellent!

By Marianne S

Feb 18, 2021

It was a good course, but it did not apply to me as much as I thought it would. It is mostly geared towards music therapists.

By Ms. D G

May 6, 2020

Can i get a certificate for completing the course?

By daledhanson@yahoo.com

Oct 13, 2016

It seems like the course loses its focus about on-half of the way through. It stops being about music and suddenly becomes a discussion about liberal social issues. I completely lost interest in it at that point.