Bonnie Schneider

Following my graduation with the Bachelor of Music (Boston University in 1963) and then observing broad-based education as an instructor (Brown University, 1971-1975), i am now fully committed to an integrated learning approach that focuses on the study of music alongside the study of other disciplines. This is not surprising to an ethnomusicologist (MA 1967, PhD at UCLA)! The ethnomusicology course, which I started at UC Berkeley in 1975-1976, is ideally located in a music department in a College of Letters and Science. I love exploring my interests in a variety of areas and looking at the whole picture. I love teaching both undergraduates (majors as well as non-majors and for which I've composed three textbooks: Music in India: Music in India: Classical Traditions, Thinking Musically, as well as Music in Japan: Experiencing Cultural Expression, Music) and graduate students. And I alternate periods when I focus on primarily teaching and periods where I include administrative tasks to my agenda (Chair of the Department of Music 1983-88, Dean of Undergraduate Advising 1992-1998, Chair of The Deans of the College of Letters and Science 1994-1998, Chair of the Group in Asian Studies from 1999, and now Chair of the Department of Music again).