Using Music as a Theme in an Aural Project in a College Writing Course

Abstract

This four-week project was conducted in the context of a semester-long composition course focusing on the theme of music. The students were college freshmen from various disciplines and with various experiences who used software to produce multimodal projects. In the first project of the course students composed narratives connecting events in their lives to a specific song, and in the second project they interviewed a peer and produced a visual project presenting the way music can be used to tell another person’s story.