(Guralnick, Elissa S - 2015) -- BFA Award for Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy
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A CU-Boulder faculty member from 1973 to 2014, Professor Guralnick has made exceptional contributions through her work teaching students to write and think about music, developing courses in the College of Music, serving as a writing mentor for CU faculty and creating innovative pedagogy for teaching writing to musicians across the country. Coming to the College of Music from English in 2007, Guralnick worked closely with graduate students on the written projects required for their degree. For undergraduates, she began with the premise that each student, as a musician, has a valuable perspective on music and a unique relationship with particular musical works. She helped students transform this perspective into a scholarly thesis. Guralnick is developing her innovative pedagogy into a book called Performing on the Page: Expressing the You-of-It in Writing About Music. What distinguishes it from other books on writing is the focus on how musicians can access, as writers, the same connection to music that animates their performances on stage. Many CU faculty members know Guralnick through her workshop “Well Argued? Well Written!”
