Division of Education
Music Education [M.S.]
Master of Science Degree
This program is designed to provide the music educator with advanced training in education as well as in a specific music proficiency. The student receives exposure to literature in the chosen proficiency and training in selected periods from music history.
Residence Requirements
Fall/Spring/Summer/Fall/Spring: A minimum of 21 months of residence work beginning with a fall semester is required. A public recital must be given before graduate work is completed.
See specific courses offered summer 2009.
Admission Requirements
See General Admission Requirements. Graduate applicants must have majored in music on the undergraduate level. Music applicants must audition in person. Those who live beyond 400 miles from Pensacola may submit a high-quality video recording.
Candidacy
See Candidacy.
Graduation Requirements
See Graduation Requirements. Must also earn at least a “B” in private lessons.
Music Proficiencies
All music graduate students must demonstrate basic keyboard proficiency before completing the degree program. Students may either take the Piano Proficiency Examination or opt for one year of piano.
One credit hour of private music instruction in the student’s proficiency is required each semester. Music instruction is available in voice, piano, strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, and choral conducting. MU 646 includes private music instruction. Ensemble credit includes Chamber Ensemble, Madrigal Singers, Orchestra, Symphonic Band, or piano accompaniment for a college performing group. Students with piano proficiency will take PI 505 Graduate Hymnplaying and only two ensemble credits.
Course Requirements
| Music Education | Hours |
|---|---|
| ED 541 History of American Education | 3 |
| ED 542 Philosophy of American Education | 3 |
| ED 545 Principles of Instruction and Methods | 3 |
| MU 512 Advanced Music Theory | 3 |
| MU 513 Analytic Technique | 3 |
| MU 527 Electronic Application in Arranging | 2 |
| MU 531 Graduate Music History Survey | 2 |
| MU 532 Graduate Music History Survey | 2 |
| MU 559 Advanced Choral Conducting | 2 |
| MU 646 Graduate Recital—Music Education | 1 |
| 631-633 Private Music (1 hr. each) | 3 |
| Music Literature | 3 |
| Ensemble | 3 |
Total Hours |
33 |
