Are you looking for a teaching assistantship in Fall 2015? The Department of Musicology is seeking two additional Teaching Assistants for Fall 2015 for the undergraduate courses, Music History 5: History of Rock and Roll and Music History 8: Electronic Dance Music. The catalog descriptions of the courses are below:
Mus Hist 5: History of Rock & Roll (5 units) MW 9-11AM, 2 sections taught by TA
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Analysis of forms, practices, and meanings of rock and roll music, broadly conceived, from its origin to the present. Emphasis on how this music has reflected and influenced changes in sexual, racial, and class identities and attitudes. Letter grading.
Mus Hist 8: History of Electronic Dance Music (5 units) MW 11-1PM, 2 sections taught by TA
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of groove-based electrified dance music from its origins in 1960s pop and soul to present, covering disco, house, techno, ambient, rave, and jungle. Emphasis on interaction of technology, musical structures, psychoactive drugs, and club cultures to induce altered states of musical consciousness; promise (versus reality of) political and spiritual transformation; electronic dance music as new art music. P/NP or letter grading.
Preference will be given to applicants that have: a basic knowledge of reading music, and interest/experience in teaching or researching popular music.
If you are interested and feel that you are qualified for the position, please send a cover letter explaining qualifications and CV to Jessica Gonzalez: jessgonzalez@humnet.ucla.edu. August 28th deadline.