Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Music Education
BME Northwestern University
MM Northwestern University
Ph.D Northwestern University
COURSES TAUGHT:
Middle School Methods and Lab
Seminar in Music Education III
CONTACT INFORMATION:
773-325-1037
About
Dr. Judy Iwata Bundra is the Associate Dean at DePaul University School of Music, in Chicago Illinois. She has extensive teaching experience at the university and public school levels, and serves as a consultant to music and arts teachers. Dr. Bundra has been a member of the Illinois State Board of Education Fine Arts Standards and Alternative Assessment committees and has served on the Executive Board of the Illinois Music Educators Association. She currently serves as a board member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Institute for Learning, Access, and Training.
Dr. Bundra has presented at numerous national and state conferences on the topics of curriculum development, music assessment, music listening, multicultural music education and integrated arts. She also serves on the advisory board of Harmonic Vision, the producer of the award-winning Music Ace software series. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where she studied development of music listening skills in school-aged children. Her dissertation received recognition from the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and she was the recipient of the 1987 Young Writers Award from Design for Arts in Education. She has also contributed two chapters to the book, On the Nature of Musical Experience (1992), edited by B. Reimer and J. Wright.