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Isn't it time academia began to embrace modern music?  Isn't it time academia began to embrace the arts?  Isn't it time academia moved from obsessive compartmentalization to multi-disciplinary integration? 

Do you need a "map" connecting you from Bakersfield to LA via the Grapevine?  Are you a student who feels just like a number or a statistic? 

On Tuesday night, March 10. 2009, students in my Behavior Methods of Psychology at Chapman University (the College of the Canyons site in Santa Clarita, California) will participate in The M.A.P.P. (MUSIC- ARTS-PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM)--- a program, designed by yours truly, to seemlessly integrate music, drama, the auditory arts, and principles of psychology into study aids on CD, made available to other students as entertaining study guides for the course. 

Me, and my group of graduate psychology students will be recording a brand new skit, and a mini soundtrack to that skit at Command Studios, a studio run by members of Odaal, an LA-base alt band.

It's the second of a series of M.A.P. projects, the first having been done right here in Bakersfield via National University, involving a group of students in my Assessment Techniques course.  It's all just one big experiment.  We're having fun.  We're learning.  If you think fun and learning represent an oxymoron, you've never attended one of my classes.  In short, class can be a gas! 

Will this project meet or surpass all expectations, or will it be a partial or utter disappointment?  We'll all have to wait and see.  We'll be sure to keep you posted.