Master of Music - Music Education

Program Description

The graduate music education program offers certified music teachers the opportunity to earn a master's degree in a little over two years with courses in the evenings and summers. Educational theory and practice merge throughout course work, and students have the flexibility to select elective areas of study. The program culminates with a final paper or project, allowing students to research an area of special interest. ​​​​​​​​​​​

Students will be able to:

• Identify and analyze the elements of music in a given piece, and demonstrate an understanding of its compositional processes, aesthetic properties, and artistic, social, and historical context.
• Demonstrate basic music research techniques and knowledge of standard reference tools and bibliographic sources, including the use of online databases.
• Develop effective writing skills for use in program notes, liner notes, abstracts, essays, or research papers.
• Develop an expanded global awareness and cultural understanding through musical study.
• Describe basic information about health and safety within the contexts of practice, performing, teaching, and listening; topics will include hearing, vocal, and musculoskeletal health and injury prevention.

• Perform solo and ensemble works with appropriate techniques and musicality.
• Identify and analyze the elements of music in a given piece, including an understanding of its compositional processes, aesthetic properties, and artistic, social, and historical contexts for works in the Western music tradition, Contemporary periods, Jazz, and World Music.
• Demonstrate an appropriate level of aural, keyboard, and conducting skills.
• Apply musical knowledge and skills, artistic expression, and contextual understanding to the development of instruction and assessment in instrumental, vocal, and general music contexts that demonstrate an understanding of child development and that enable students to engage in music through creating, responding, performing, and connecting.
• Apply pedagogical knowledge and skills appropriate to the teaching of music in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of the impact of diversity, gender equity, special needs, and socio-economic status on education.
• Utilize tools such as technology and alternative methods of teaching to enhance learning and professional growth.