Music 4241: Lousiana Opera Outreach Program (LOOP)

This is a Service-Learning course in which the student applies what s/he learns to make the community a better place. While helping others, the student gains knowledge that is directly connected to the learning goals of this course. Students will be enrolled by permission of the instructors and will be cast as characters in operatic scenes which will be musically coached by the outreach music director, or serve as student directors, or facilitate as student hosts, technical assistants, student production manager, or student outreach director. All members of the class will collaborate in writing the script that introduces each scene and in preparing a teacher-student study guide to introduce elementary and middle school students to opera basics and repertory before LOOP performances.