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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Music Education, B.M.
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The major in music education is the joint concern of the School of Music in the College of Fine Arts and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. Admission to the program is granted only after the successful completion of an audition in the student’s performance area. In addition to completing the required courses, the student must present a halfrecital or the equivalent on the major instrument or in voice during or after the sixth semester of study.
Music education majors who wish to receive a teaching certificate must meet the certification requirements of the College of Education, as well as the requirements for the College of Fine Arts. To qualify for student teaching and state teacher certification, a student must be officially admitted into the Teacher Education Program. Certification also requires successful completion of the NTE/Praxis II and a one-year paid internship. Additional information on TEP, NTE/Praxis II, certification and internship is outlined in the College of Education section of this Catalog.
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I. Intellectual Inquiry in Arts and Creativity
II. Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities
III. Intellectual Inquiry in the Social Sciences
*PSY 100 is required for certification. It also fulfills the Social Sciences area of the UK Core.
IV. Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences
V. Composition and Communication I
VI. Composition and Communication II
VII. Quantitative Foundations
VIII. Statistical Inferential Reasoning
IX. Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA
Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR)
Subtotal: Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement hours (GCCR): 3
Professional Education Requirements
Subtotal: Professional Education: 24-25
Music Requirements - General
Recital Attendance
- Four courses - zero credit - completed satisfactorily. Credit(s): 0
Music Theory
Music History
Performance
- MUP in major performance area. Credit(s): 12
Senior Recital (MUP 440 )
- The successful completion of one half a solo recital must be completed for graduation.
Large Ensemble
- For instrumental and piano majors: MUC 175 , MUC 187 , MUC 188 , MUC 189 , MUC 191 (001 or 401)
- For voice and piano majors: MUC 174 , MUC 192 (001, 002 or 003)
- For guitar majors: MUC 177
- All music majors must participate in large conductor led ensembles directly related to their primary instrument each semester in residence, as determined by ensemble conductors in consultation with studio faculty. Voice majors with a significant performance commitment to a major Opera Theatre production may be allowed to reduce large choral ensemble participation to a minimum of six semesters and eight credits of large choral ensemble participation, by advance approval of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Six semesters of 1-credit large ensembles (6 total credits) which includes 1-credit of chamber music. Six additional credits in electives are also required by which the student should continue large ensemble participation each semester while in residence. Wind and percussion students are required to take at least two semesters of Marching Band. Six semesters. Credit(s): 6
Electives
Subtotal: General Major Requirements: 53
Music Requirements - Major Performance Areas
Depending on the area of interest, the student must select one of the major performance areas below: Major Performance Area - Vocal
- Diction: MUS 120 (two semesters) Credit(s): 2
- All music majors must pass a piano proficiency examination and should schedule, in consultation with their advisor, a suitable course each semester until this requirement is completed. Students with little or no prior piano study should normally expect to complete the piano proficiency examination by the end of four semesters of study. Music Education majors should pass the piano proficiency examination at least two semesters before student teaching. Credit(s): 0-4
- Music Education: MUS 262 , MUS 264 , MUS 260 *, MUS 361 *, MUS 362 * Credit(s): 15
- Secondary Instruments-choose three of the following: MUC 157 , MUC 158 , MUC 161 , MUC 163 Credit(s): 3
Subtotal: Vocal Performance Area: 20-24
Major Performance Area - Keyboard
- All music majors must pass a piano proficiency examination. Keyboard majors work towards this goal as part of their keyboard study. Music education majors should pass the piano proficiency exam at least two semesters before student teaching.
- Minor Performance: MUP 102 , MUP 202 Credit(s): 3
A voice proficiency test must be passed prior to student teaching.
- Pedagogy and Literature-select one of the following: MUS 522 , MUS 523 , MUS 566 Credit(s): 3
- Music Education: MUS 262 , MUS 264 , MUS 260 *, MUS 361 *, MUS 362 * Credit(s): 15
- Secondary Instruments-choose three of the following: MUC 157 , MUC 158 , MUC 161 , MUC 163 Credit(s): 3
Subtotal: Keyboard Performance Area: 24
Major Performance Area - Woodwinds, Brass, Strings, Percussion
- All music majors must pass a piano proficiency examination and should schedule, in consultation with their advisor, a suitable course each semester until this requirement is completed. Students with little or no prior piano study should normally expect to complete the piano proficiency examination by the end of four semesters of study. Music Education majors should pass the piano proficiency examination at least two semesters before student teaching. Credit(s): 0-4
- Secondary Instruments
Brass, Woodwind and String majors: Choose five hours from MUC 158 , MUC 161 , and MUC 163 , plus one hour of MUC 157 Credit(s): 6
Percussion majors: Take two hours each of MUC 158 , MUC 161 , and MUC 163 Credit(s): 6
- Music Education: MUS 263 , MUS 265 , MUS 260 *, MUS 363 *, MUS 365 * Credit(s): 15
Subtotal: Woodwinds, Brass, Strings, Percussion Performance Area: 21-25
Total Hours: minimum of 125-131
*These courses require admission to the Teacher Education Program.
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