Music Major — Music Education/Vocal Concentration

General Education Requirements

Additional Degree Requirements

• Music Core Requirements - Total Credits: 31

• MUS 100 - Concert Attendance
• MUS 167 - Piano Proficiency
• MUS 201E - Basic Musicianship IE
• MUS 201F - Basic Musicianship IF
• MUS 202E - Basic Musicianship IIE
• MUS 202F - Basic Musicianship IIF
• MUS 303E - Advanced Musicianship IE
• MUS 303F - Advanced Musicianship IF
• MUS 304E - Advanced Musicianship IIE
• MUS 304F - Advanced Musicianship IIF
• MUS 341 - Music History I
• MUS 342 - Music History II
• MUS 343 - Music History III
• MUS 362 - Beginning Conducting

• and required ensemble (semesters 1-8) assigned by the department plus

  MUSE 377 - Orff Ensemble
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• Education Core Requirements - Total Credits: 21

• MUS 481S - Secondary Supervised Student Teaching: Music
• EPY 451 - Foundations of Educational Assessment
• EDSP 411 - Students with Disabilities in General Education Settings
• EDU 280 - Valuing Cultural Diversity

Vocal Requirements - Total Credits: 58

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• MUS 109 - Functional Piano I
• MUS 110 - Functional Piano II
• MUS 143 - Diction for Singers I
• MUS 144 - Diction for Singers II
• MUS 209 - Functional Piano III
• MUS 210 - Functional Piano IV
• MUS 271 - Introduction to Music Education
• MUS 273 - Choral Conducting Lab (2 semesters - 2 credits)
• MUS 365 - Beginning Orchestration
• MUS 373 - Advanced Choral Conducting (2 semesters - 1 credit each)
• MUS 375 - Instrumental Methods
• MUS 376 - Choral Methods
• MUS 378 - Teaching General Music
• MUS 385 - String Class Methods
• MUS 386 - Percussion Class Methods
• MUS 387 - Brass Class Methods
• MUS 388 - Woodwind Class Methods
• MUS 391 - Teaching of Marching Band Techniques
• MUS 451 - Jazz Band Methods
• MUS 408 - Form and Analysis
• MUS 414 - Choral Literature
• MUS 417 - Vocal Pedagogy
• MUS 452A - Practicum I: General Music
• MUS 452B - Practicum II: Choral/Vocal (Choral)
• MUS 452C - Practicum 3: Instrumental (Instrumental)

• Band (MUSE 113-120/413-420, 2 semesters)

• Orchestra (MUSE 121/421, 2 semesters)
   

• MUSA 300 - Piano for Music Educators (2 semesters - 2 credits)

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• *OPTION: Vocal students who want to student teach in instrumental music must take the following courses beyond the degree requirements (Total Credits: 21-22):

• MUS 372 - Advanced Instrumental Conducting (1 semester)
• MUS 385A - String Class Methods (High)
• MUS 385B - String Class Methods (Low)
• MUS 386A - Percussion Class Methods (Sn/KeyTimp/Aux)
• MUS 386B - Percussion Class Methods (Lat/Mul/Mar/Set)
• MUS 387A - Brass Class Methods (High)
• MUS 387B - Brass Class Methods (Low)
• MUS 388B - Woodwind Class Methods (double reeds)
• MUS 399 - Junior Recital Applied

Total Credits: 147-150

Notes

1. Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course, and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements but one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.
2. Every student must pass MUS 167 Piano Proficiency before registering for MUS 398 and student teaching.
3. In order to teach, students must have an overall grade point average (GPA) of 2.75 or higher and no grade below C, passing scores on the PPST, completion of all professional course requirements and complete the required fingerprinting.