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Master of Music in Music Education with Certification
The Masters Degree with Certification curriculum enables a student holding a bachelor of music degree in another field of music, typically performance, to earn a Master of Music with certification to teach music in the public schools. The degree program consists of certification requirements and masters degree requirements. The student must complete the certification requirements in the first year of study and the graduate courses in the second year of study. Students are required to complete either a comprehensive oral examination or a thesis.
Certification Requirements
Major
Minor
Piano proficiency
Secondary instruments
Other Studies in Music
General Studies Requirements
Comprehensive Oral Examination or Thesis
Certification Requirements
Certification Requirements may be met with previous courses from the undergraduate degree if approved by the Director of Graduate Studies.
Major
A minimum of 40 semester hours in performance, ensemble, and conducting. A minimum of two semesters of conducting (Conducting 315 and 316) is required.
Minor
A minimum of 25 semester hours of musicology and theory of music.
Piano proficiency
Completion of the following courses (or equivalent proficiency)
- Instrumental music education - Piano 112
- Choral music education, voice principal - Piano 20
Secondary instruments
Completion of the following courses:
- Instrumental music education - Strings 201 and 202, Winds 203, Brass 205, Voice 320, and Percussion 207.
- Choral music education, voice principal - Strings 201, Percussion 207, Vocal literature 200
- Choral music education, piano principal - Voice 320, Strings 201, Percussion 207, Vocal literature 200
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Other Studies in Music
Performing Arts Technology 111
General Studies Requirements
A minimum of 40 semester hours of non-music courses. These courses must be distributed among the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences, with a minimum of eight hours in each category, and with at least two
departments represented in each category.
Professional Education : Completion of the following courses:
- All Students - Education D349, Education 391, 392, and 402
- Choral Music Education - Education D340, D341, D342, D345-D348
- Instrumental Music Education - Education D370, D371, D372, D341 or D342, D375-378
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Comprehensive Oral Examination or Thesis
All masters degree students are required to complete either a comprehensive oral examination or a thesis.
Comprehensive Oral Examination Option
In the final semester of masters degree study, the student, in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies, will choose three professors to act as an exam committee. The exam chair and at least one committee member must be music education professors. The third exam committee member may be from music education or another department. In consultation with the faculty members, the student will develop three exam questions:
- philosophy or research
- psychology, curriculum or music teacher methods
- musical score analysis
The questions must be approved by the committee members three weeks in advance of the examination. The exam will last approximately 90 minutes (30 minutes for each of the three questions). Students may not read from notes or note cards during the exam. At the completion of the exam, students will leave the room and a decision regarding passing/failing of exam will be made. The majority of the committee members must agree for a pass. If the student does not pass, the re-examination must be completed within one year. Details regarding what needs to be improved will be provided to the student by the Director of Graduate Studies within 72 hours of the failed exam.
Thesis Option
The student wishing to complete a thesis as a one-to three-credit option will choose a thesis advisor from the music education faculty. The advisor will assist the student in forming the three person thesis committee that will include at least one other music education faculty member. In consultation with the thesis advisor the student will develop a project proposal. All committee members must receive the proposal three weeks in advance of the thesis proposal defense. The thesis proposal defense will last approximately one hour.
Credits for the thesis may be completed at any time during the degree. However, all thesis credits must be completed by the semester of the thesis defense. All committee members must receive the completed thesis document at least three weeks in advance of the final thesis defense. The defense will last approximately one hour. At the completion of the defense, the student will leave the room and a decision regarding passing/failing of exam will be made. The majority of the committee members must agree for a pass. If the student does not pass, the defense must be completed within one year. Details regarding what needs to be improved will be provided to the student by the Director of Graduate Studies within 72 hours of the failed defense.
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