Courses

Meets as a seminar and examines selected topics in Classic and Romantic music, 1750-1900. Topics vary from year to year.

Restricted to graduate students. Same as MUSC 4892.

Engage with music/music business organizations in the community (for profit or non-profit) to pursue specific tasks or projects relevant to the student's career goals. A minimum of 48 hours is required per semester for one credit. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours. Recommended prereq., Masters standing. MUSC 4908 and 5908 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to College of Music undergraduate students only.

Previously Topics in Arts Entrepreneurship, this course prepares students to evaluate opportunities in their specific arts field by analyzing existing arts organizations and then applying entrepreneurial concepts to create new enterprises. Topics for research and discussion include current issues in the arts, introduction to entrepreneurship, preparing a business feasibility study, market information for new ventures, and funding sources. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Learn the core principles of entrepreneurship, such as idea formation, venture models, opportunity assessment, market analysis, and strategies for launching a venture, and apply them to their own entrepreneurial ideas. Lectures, projects, entrepreneur interviews, and case studies will culminate in a feasibility study for an original entrepreneurial concept. Recommended prereq., MUSC 4918. Same as MUSC 4998.

Studies significant and distinctive orchestration techniques of the 20th century, concentrating on works written since 1940. Restricted to doctoral students.

Studies methods and materials for teaching undergraduate music theory, aural skills, and analysis. Prereq., passed general written theory and aural skills prelim exam, or completed remediation.

Surveys historical and philosophical bases of contemporary music education. Restricted to graduate students in music education. Offered fall only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Music or Music Education graduate students only.

Explores curricular models for music education. Emphasizes comprehensive musicianship and standards-based frameworks for curriculum and development. Restricted to graduate students in music education. Offered spring of even-numbered years.

May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prereq.,consent of instructor and music education chair. Prerequisites: Restricted to Music or Music Education graduate students only.

Provides an overview of psychological concepts relevant to music teaching and learning. Topics include learning theories, selected individual difference variables (motivation, anxiety, creativity, and personality), physiological structures related to hearing, psychoacoustics, and approaches to examining musical ability (e.g. brain research, music aptitude, and skill acquisition). Restricted to graduate students. Offered spring only.

Provides an overview of traditional and contemporary approaches to music assessment. Topics include psychometrics, standardized tests, test construction, grade reports, and student portfolios. Restricted to graduate students in music education. Offered spring of even-numbered years.

Studies sociological perspectives related to music education. Topics include functions and uses of music; teacher and student role/identity development; social aspects of music performance, and cultural perspectives on music learning. Recommended prereq., MUSC 6113. Restricted to graduate students in music education. Offered fall of even-numbered years. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores four topics (reflective/critical thinking, teacher effectiveness, cultural/program contexts, teachers' lives/career development) relevant to long-term teacher development. Includes individualized feedback on teaching. Open to graduate students in music education and performance-pedagogy. Offered spring of odd-numbered years. Restricted to MME+ students in their second or third year of the program. Recommended prereq., MUSC 6113 and/or significant teaching experience.

Provides an intensive study of a selected area of repertoire or history. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to doctoral students or instructor consent required. Offered fall only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Intensive study of a specialized topic in theory and analysis. Students will be guided in critical reading and analysis, class presentations, and independent research. Prereqs., graduate preliminary exams passed, and 6 credit hours of graduate-level theory. Restricted to MUSD and MUAD students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Music (MUSD or MUAD) majors only.

Intensive study of a specialized topic in musicology. Students will be guided in critical reading, historical or ethnographic issues, analysis, oral presentations, and independent research. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. prereq., MUSC 5708. Restricted to MUAD or MUSD majors. Prerequisites: Restricted to Music (MUAD or MUSD) graduate students only.

Provides advanced study in jazz literature and styles. Students present results of research on individually chosen topics or aspects of a topic central to the class. Requires class presentations and a major paper or project. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereqs., MUSC 5091 and 5642. Restricted to doctoral students. Offered every other year.

Topics include oral history, archival collections, data verification, and critiquing/publishing research. Students conduct one original research study. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Restricted to doctoral students in music education. Offered spring of even-numbered years.

Topics include sampling, questionnaire development, research design, intermediate and advanced statistics, presenting/publishing research, and research ethics. Students conduct an original research study. Restricted to doctoral students in music education. Offered fall of even-numbered years. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines music teaching within colleges and universities, including the evolution of university music programs, undergraduate and graduate music curricula, music professors and their work, and sociopolitical issues. Offered spring of odd-numbered years.

Topics include qualitative research traditions, site and participant selection, data collection and analysis methods, quality standards, and research ethics. Students conduct an original research study. Restricted to doctoral students in music education. Offered fall of odd-numbered years. Prerequisites: Restricted to Music (MMED or MUSD) graduate students only.