HN 304 - Music and Medicine

(3.00 cr.)

Restricted to junior or senior Honors students. The intersection of music and medical history is examined. Topics include: Why was music considered a medicine against the plague? Why were opera composers fascinated by tuberculosis? How did Barney the Dinosaur and Bruce Springsteen become instruments of torture? Counts as an Honors fine arts seminar. Same course as MU 304 .