Chairs

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  Camille Colatosti

  Title: Chair
  Department: Liberal Arts

  "Liberal arts at Berklee features a unique Music and Society Curriculum. These interdisciplinary courses place music in context and ask students to write, think, and analyze music as a product of and as something produced by culture. We all know that music does not exist in isolation but is created through society and grows from the issues and life of a particular time and place. Music and Society classes explore the relationship between music and other arts—including performing and fine arts, as well as literature, music and politics, music and history, music and economics, and more. In addition, Music and Society courses examine the way music affects and is affected by people, society, and human interaction generally."

  "The liberal arts program is a key part of the college, integrated into the overall fabric of our institution. The value of a liberal arts education is immeasurable. Liberal arts courses provide a cultural context for the music being studied; help students relate music to other arts, politics, literature, and science; encourage in students an appreciation for diversity; and prepare students to make the complex ethical choices they will face throughout their lives. Through liberal arts, students gain broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a strong sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement. 

  "Liberal arts and music are really partners in the Berklee curriculum, so that graduates are accomplished musicians who also excel as team members, communicators and problem-solvers.

  "Liberal arts at Berklee features a unique Music and Society Curriculum. These interdisciplinary courses place music in context and ask students to write, think, and analyze music as a product of and as something produced by culture. We all know that music does not exist in isolation but is created through society and grows from the issues and life of a particular time and place. Music and Society classes explore the relationship between music and other arts—including performing and fine arts, as well as literature, music and politics, music and history, music and economics, and more. In addition, Music and Society courses examine the way music affects and is affected by people, society, and human interaction generally.

  "The liberal arts program offers students a great deal of choice among classes that may represent traditional liberal arts subjects—in the humanities, social sciences, foreign languages, mathematics and natural sciences—and among unique Berklee classes, like Poetry Slam and Jam, Advanced Theater Scriptwriting, Psychoacoustics, and The Mathematics of Musical Signals. Our faculty are experts in their fields, dedicated to their area of  scholarship and to Berklee students.

  "In addition, the department sponsors the FUSION—the Berklee literary magazine—and a poetry slam team.

  "A lot of fantastic things are happening within liberal arts."

  • B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • M.A., Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Author of Stopping Sexual Harassment: A Handbook for Union and Workplace Activists
  • Author of numerous articles on learning, adult learners, and the liberal arts
  • Recipient of the Instructor of the Year Award, Davenport University, and the Athena Award for women's leadership

• Mike Mason

  Title: Assistant Chair
  Department: Liberal Arts