Jazz Perspectives on STEM and the Humanities

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Jazz Improvisation is often dependent upon a unique confluence of perspectives and expertise. We tend to associate STEM with technical expertise and view jazz as a highly subjective enterprise. While there is much truth in both assertions, the lines are blurrier than may be supposed. To that end, we will bring in a variety of speakers from STEM and the humanities to discuss how improvisation is present in their work and how their improvisatory practices and our understandings of jazz might mutually inform one another. Counts as a Communication Intensive course. Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course.