MUED - Music Education

Prerequisite: Admission to the MMEd program and MUED 3040 or equivalent experience. A course designed to provide additional training in the area of basic vocal pedagogy that is specific to the public school music specialist.

Graduate Instrumental Teaching Methods is designed to continue growth and refinement of good instrumental teaching methods in K-12 music programs. This course will help teachers establish clear music standards for their students and insist that they be met. In addition, it will help music teachers be able to assess the relative effectiveness of various ensemble teaching environments, describe and assess the relative effectiveness of various instrumental teaching lesson plans and methods and develop strategies to teach advanced instrumental techniques.

Prerequisite: Admission to the MMEd program. A course designed to acquaint the graduate student in music education with field-specific technologies in the areas of technology-assisted learning, music production and notation, multimedia production, and classroom/lab management software.

Prerequisite: Admission to the M.M.Ed program. A course designed to allow the graduate student to work with graduate faculty on topics selected to meet special needs or interests. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to the MMEd program. This on-line distance education course is a study of the development and implementation of curriculum and assessment of affective teaching and supervision of curriculum. Some face to face meetings will be required. Basic knowledge of computers and use of internet is required.

Prerequisite: Admission to MMEd program. The purpose of this course is to acquaint the graduate student in music education with field-specific research methods and resources using a variety of writing projects, research assignments, and in-class presentations.

Prerequisites: Admission to M.M.Ed. program and MUED 3909 or equivalent course or experience. This course will continue the work done in either an undergraduate course or relevant elementary experience by focusing on two important approaches to teaching music in the elementary school: Orff and Kodaly.

Prerequisite: Admission to MMEd program and permission of graduate faculty. This is a guided research project in which the graduate student in music education has the opportunity to research and execute an approved study in an environment conducive to their particular field of expertise. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MM.Ed. program. The organization, development, and maintenance of a balanced secondary choral music program including general music. In this course the students will learn to apply teaching methodology/ technology to the choral and general music classroom, and then evaluate those procedures for effectiveness and possible alternative approaches. The continued improvement of leadership qualities, communication skills, organization (time and resources), and a desire for excellence are the primary outcomes in order that each student will progress as a dynamic and successful choral music educator.

Prerequisite: MUED 5800 (Research in Music Education) and permission of major professor and admission to MM.Ed Program. Guided research and thesis writing on a directed thesis project. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MM.Ed. program. This course is designed to give the masters of music education student and opportunity to experience the administration side of being a secondary public school instrumental director as well as research current trends in classroom methods, performance practices, and rehearsal techniques.