The team-taught humanistic studies course, “Animal Music,” was featured in a recent article, “Animal Music Course Strikes a Chord With Students,” in Princeton Alumni Weekly. Taught by Gavin Steingo (Music) and Asif Ghazanfar (Neuroscience and Psychology), the Fall 2025 undergraduate class explored the emerging field of animal music, bridging scholarship from musicologists, cognitive scientists, and biologists.
The course was part of a multi-year initiative supported by the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Humanities Council. The project also included the creation of the Animal Song Collective, which brings together humanists and scientists to explore the idea of “animal song” from a cross-disciplinary and collaborative perspective.
