RJA #13b: Application Project Plan

For my application project I plan on writing a few journal entries in from the point of view of a college student just entering his music undergraduate program. The college is making some changes to the requirements to graduate by adding more emphasis on oral traditional music. The first entry will be more or less expressing his concern for the schools program and how it is unfair to him. He will feel that it is unnecessary to learn oral traditional music and all that requirement does is make it harder to get a degree. In the second entry, it will be year later and his attitude will have slightly shifted and but he will still not be happy with having to learn oral traditional music. I will then do three more entries, two for the beginning of each year and one for when he receives his diploma. At the end he will express his gratitude for learning more about oral traditional music and how it has helped him become a better and a more in demand musician.
Essentially my project will follow a college student through his music undergrad program in a college that has adopted my suggestion for requiring students to not only learn notated western methods but also oral traditional methods. Five entries total, one for the beginning of each year and one at his graduation.