In the 2017 – 2018 academic year, second year Bachelor of Global Music students were part of a new course co-ordinated and taught by Dr. Alexis Kallio and Danielle Treacy on Cultural Diversity and Music Research. Students engaged with a number of academic texts and enjoyed discussions with a number of visiting lecturers. The group was challenged by concepts addressed in recent research publications and projects, such as the Other, multi/inter/transculturalism, diversity, race, gender, privilege, ethics, exoticism and collaboration, as they related the work of others to their own musical practice.
The course culminated in five student documentary film productions which were premiered through a public screening on the 18 April 2018.