What should I know about classes and student life?
- All courses are offered 100% online and are asynchronous. This means that, unless you and your professor schedule a time to meet, you won’t be required to attend any scheduled class meetings. You’ll be subject to due dates within each class for assignments, usually once or twice a week.
- Canvas is our Learning Management System and all of your classes will be on this site. Many students are already familiar with Canvas from their own teaching. It’s also similar to Google Classroom and other LMS.
- Students can work with their advisor on a personalized roadmap to complete the degree
- Courses are 7 weeks in length and students tend to take 2 classes per semester
- Same structure for Fall, Spring, and Summer
- The only course not on the 7-week schedule is the Capstone course, which will be the last one you take before graduation. It lasts a full, 14-week semester.
- Courses are offered on a rotation so that you can start at the beginning of any semester. We recommend enrolling in a course for every 7-week term so that you can finish the program as quickly as possible; however, if you need to take a term off, we can work with you to develop a personalized schedule.
- Classes
- MUS 63274 Foundations of Music Educators is the first class students complete
- MUS 63274 Foundations of Music Educators and MUS 63099 Capstone are offered every semester
- MUS 52131 America’s Music and MUS 52171 Music from World Cultures are taught by our Ethnomusicology Faculty
- MUS 61170 Music Analysis is our Music Theory course and is taught by our Music Theory Faculty
- Electives
- Students are required to complete two electives. One must be one of our 100% online options:
- Advanced Studies in Teaching Choral,
- Advanced Studies in Teaching General,
- or Advanced Studies in Teaching Instrumental.
- The other elective can also be an online option or you can join us in the summer for one to two weeks to complete an in-person elective.
- We also offer a couple of in-person, on-campus electives each summer. Orff Levels I, II, and III are available each summer and previous summer electives have included:
- Rock Band Methods and Performance
- Jazz Performance and Pedagogy
- Music Learning Theory
- Dalcroze Eurythmics
- Summer 2023 electives are projected to be:
- Orff Levels I-III (Late June)
- Music Learning Theory - Early Childhood (Early July)
- Conducting - Instrumental and Choral tracks (Mid-July)
- Students are required to complete two electives. One must be one of our 100% online options: