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MUS7406H Music Psychology

Date Posted: 06/23/2025
Req ID: 43771
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Music
Department: Faculty of Music
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

 

Description:

A complete application includes your responses to the application form with a cover letter and current Curriculum Vitae; click here to apply. 

Course Description: This course is an introduction to music psychology, a field concerned with the processes of music perception and production, responses to music, and the use of music in everyday life. Representative topics include: the role of music as a mediating stimulus for non-musical responses, physiological foundations of music perception and production, models of mood and emotion in music, the relationship between music and language, and models of music cognition. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to understand and critique basic science research and clinical research studies, design and implement an experimental research protocol, interpret research data, and articulate future scientific inquiries pertaining to applications of music in healthcare. Course requirements include weekly reading responses and a semester-long research project on a topic of the student’s choosing.

Class Schedule: Tuesdays 10am-12pm

January to April 2026

Salary: $9,820.70

Estimated Course Enrollment: 12

TA support: none

Qualifications: Doctoral degree in Music and Health Sciences or closely related field. Thorough knowledge of music psychology and research methods, including applications to research and clinical work in music and health sciences. Demonstrated excellence teaching music topics at the university level.

Duties: Define course objectives; prepare course materials; provide clear guidelines on course requirements and regulations; teach classes as scheduled; administer and evaluate student assignments; prepare and submit final grade in accordance with policy. Maintain reasonable hours of student consultation outside scheduled class hours.
Closing Date:

A complete application includes your responses to the application form with a cover letter and current Curriculum Vitae; click here to apply. 

Daphne Tan
Associate Dean, Academic & Student Affairs
Associate Professor, Music Theory
Faculty of Music
University of Toronto
80 Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Closing Date: 07/11/2025, 11:59PM ET
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Job Category: Sessional Instruction

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