From: MARK TRAMO < To: "Stephanie A. White" Cc: "Smith, Judi" Schllin er Bee: ' 'd ', "Fink, Robert" , "Miller, Gre , "Neuman, Dan" , Barney Neal Stulberg "Maria, Belen" Subject: To Professors White and Fink re: Music Mind & Brain (MusInd103/NeurosciM170) Spring 2018 Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:08:02 +0000 Dear Stephanie & Bob, What a turnout last night for the first Music Mind & Brain seminar! Thank you for informing your students, accrediting it for the Neurosci and Music majors/minors, and, of course, supporting its 9th year here at UCLA (and 21st overall since its inception at Harvard College of Arts & Sciences in the Mind Brain & Behavior Interfaculty Initiative). The Registrar, perhaps mistakenly, enrolled 35 students in the class: 25 slots reserved for NSci students plus 10 reserved for Music students. Another 10-15 showed up asking for inclusion, many of them senior Neurosci, Music or Psychol students (the course also counts towards the CogSci and Psychobiol major/minor). Since the horse was already out of the barn re: keeping enrollment in the past seminar range of 20-25, I asked the 35 students who were already officially enrolled to vote on whether to keep the class at 35 or go to 45-50. They overwhelmingly voted to include everyone. The only downsides I foresee are: 1) obtaining and sending PTEs to all the students not among the first 35; 2) increasing the size of student study sections for each seminar to 6-7 instead of 3-4 and divvying up oral presentations of professional journal publications such that two students will share a presentation in some cases; and 3) still assigning but no longer correcting/scoring homework questions that highlight the key points of each seminar. The latter will still be documented and posted with answers on the course website by that seminar's 3 scribes, with whom I meet after class. (The final exam includes many of those questions and some others.) In a sense, the snafu of enrolling 35 studen