Music Teacher (all grades), M.A.
Student Learning Outcomes
Advanced Musicianship (with depth and breadth)
- Stylistic Understanding. Ability to identify (at sight) and discuss at an advanced level musical scores in terms of period, genre, possible composer, and identifying musical traits.
- Analytical Skills. Ability to listen to, analyze, explain, and discuss at an advanced level a musical score, i.e. with sufficient sophistication and appropriate attention to details such as key areas, harmonies, motives, rhythm, phrasing, texture, dynamics, register, color, text-music relationships, serial techniques, musical grammar and rhetoric, etc.
- Terminology. Understand the musical terminology pertaining to the history, theory, composition, and performance of music. Music-education students will also be expected to demonstrate knowledge of terminologies from recognized standard pedagogies in music. (The required vocabulary list for study will be updated periodically to reflect new trends in the field.)
- Effective Communication. Well crafted, original term projects or well documented, cogently organized research papers on musical topics at an advanced level.
- Technology Awareness. Familiarity and practical experience with technologies required for the student’s program (e.g.notation software, presentation software, composition software, etc.).
Student Learning Outcomes specific to MA in Music Teacher
- Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to discuss the history and principal approaches/techniques/practices of music education. b. Improvement of one’s conducting abilities to a more advanced level.
- Demonstrated enhancement of one’s music-teaching techniques in at least one area of the discipline (instrument methods; general music; choral conducting; class/rehearsal management, teaching technologies; etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to design curriculum and assessments tied to content standards and best practices in music education
