Music Education
Overview
The Bachelor of Music with a specialization in music education broadens and strengthens students’ musicianship while preparing them to teach in America’s public and private schools. This comprehensive, rigorous program provides knowledge, skills and experiences that help students understand teaching, learning and assessment thoroughly, while enabling them to design appropriate experiences for learners at any level of music instruction. Students complete this program as skilled and informed musicians, able scholars and competent and enthusiastic teachers prepared for a professional career or graduate study.
A specialization in music education typically leads to teaching music in public or private schools, in small-group settings, or in a private studio. However, students with this specialization also play professionally in symphony or studio orchestras and jazz groups; compose and arrange music; and perform recitals or in choruses, operas, oratorios and musical theater. Additional opportunities exist in music publishing, music management and sales, music criticism, music librarianship and private studio teaching.
