{"id":13318,"date":"2020-05-22T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=13318"},"modified":"2024-04-23T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:56:47","slug":"meet-associate-professor-of-music-therapy-soo-jin-kwoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/meet-associate-professor-of-music-therapy-soo-jin-kwoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Associate Professor of Music Therapy, Soo-Jin Kwoun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soo-Jin Kwoun, PhD, is an associate professor of music therapy in 91制片厂\u2019s Myrtle E. and Earl E. Walker College of Health Professions<\/a>. She has been teaching at Maryville for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n

Kwoun\u2019s teaching and research centers on the idea of creating and finding music within music therapy. She authored the article \u201cService Learning Within the Community Music Therapy Approach,\u201d published in Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. She has also studied the effects of structural features of music\u2014such as variations in tempo and loudness\u2014and cultural and learning factors in decoding emotions in music.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Music Therapy program at Maryville received a professional service award from the Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments. This was in part due to Kwoun\u2019s involvement with preschoolers ages three to six, helping them develop social interaction skills.<\/p>\n

In addition, Kwoun has supported Maryville\u2019s Tremble Clefs<\/a> initiative, which is a choral group composed of individuals with Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

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