<p>Seminar, four hours. Songwriting workshop and guided-research practice that offers structure for collaborative development of new compositions designed to offer enhanced therapeutic benefit to listeners and participants. Study is rooted in transdisciplinary scholarship, orienting itself toward archives, research, and literature that study healing strategies drawn from diverse range of music-based creative and therapeutic practices. Open to students from all fields related to human health including dance, education, music, music therapy, neuroscience, psychology, public health, and other allied disciplines. P/NP grading.</p>

Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

David Geffen School of Medicine

PSYCTRY 187 -  Songwright's Apothecary Laboratory

 Songwright's Apothecary Laboratory

Participants in the Songwrights Apothecary Lab are invited into a praxis for integrating known and emergent therapeutic music/song components into new, context-specific, collaboratively created music. “Collaboration” in our case means an interdisciplinary practice, where all participants in the lab contribute material, research, music-creation, knowledge from their field, and aesthetic taste to create new songs.  This newly crafted songs will be shared and studied to learn more about which elements* may increase or decrease the efficacy of music as a therapeutic aide, as well as the efficacy of collaborative praxis between researchers in various fields related to human health.  

Participants in this course are expected to:
●	Demonstrate interdisciplinary collaboration through their interactions with other participants and council members.
●	Apply research skills to identify aspects of music that contribute to therapeutic outcomes and contribute to well-being.
●	Integrate the insights from scholarly research into collaborative music-making.
●	Show increased self- and other-awareness, as manifest in their sharing of personal insights and contributions to group processes.
●	Reflect on how the SAL experience can be integrated into their future scholarship, musicianship, and personal goals.


General Catalog

Songwright's Apothecary Laboratory

PSYCTRY 187

4 units