Courses

EDM 522 STUDENT TEACHING:MUSIC EDUCATION   6.0 Credit(s)
Student teaching clinical experience in music education, in conjunction with a weekly student teaching seminar, is the culminating experience of the certification program. Clinical experience addresses Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) standards. The application for a clinical experience is submitted to the Director of Clinical Practice the semester prior to the semester in which the candidate is placed. Student teaching is conducted only in the fall and spring semesters, and is twelve weeks. A student teaching fee is assessed.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

EDM 500 GROUP INSTRUCTION:VOICE   1.0 Credit(s)
Designed to provide the future school music teacher with basic proficiency, and a pedagogy appropriate for teaching in the school setting.
Offered: Fall Semester Even Academic Years

EDM 501 GROUP INSTRUCTION:PERCUSSION   1.0 Credit(s)
Designed to provide the future school music teacher with basic proficiency, and a pedagogy appropriate for teaching in the school setting.
Offered: Spring Semester Even Academic Years

EDM 502 GROUP INSTRUCTION:WOODWINDS   1.0 Credit(s)
Designed to provide the future school music teacher with basic proficiency, and a pedagogy appropriate for teaching in the school setting.
Offered: Fall Semester Odd Academic Years

EDM 503 GROUP INSTRUCTION:BRASS   1.0 Credit(s)
Designed to provide the future school music teacher with basic proficiency, and a pedagogy appropriate for teaching in the school setting.
Offered: Spring Semester Odd Academic Years

EDM 508 TEACHING LARGE ENSEMBLES   3.0 Credit(s)
Literature, rehearsal technique, conducting technique, and basic arranging skills for teaching secondary students.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years

EDM 510 MUSIC FOR ALL LEARNERS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on current practices, models, and strategies for the music education of children and adolescents with exceptionalities, as well as differentiation for all students. Issues surrounding inclusion are considered, as well as inclusive practices, models, and strategies. Exceptionalities studied include all areas defined by Public Law 94-142 and Public Law 101-476. Includes a service-learning experience working with adolescents with exceptionalities.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

EDM 512 MUSIC IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS   3.0 Credit(s)
Musicianship skills, musical repertoire, pedagogy, and problem-solving for teaching music in prekindergarten through grade six.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

EDM 514 MUSIC IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL   3.0 Credit(s)
Musicianship skills, musical repertoire, pedagogy, and problem-solving for teaching music in secondary schools.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

EDM 516 TECHNOLOGY IN MUSIC EDUCATION   3.0 Credit(s)
Tools, methods, and pedagogy for incorporating technology into general music classes and all types of ensemble experiences. Tools incorporated include digital audio workstations (DAWs), notation software, theory and ear training software, musical collaboration applications, and other relevant applications.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years

EDM 518 CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT IN MUSIC   3.0 Credit(s)
An examination of approaches to curriculum and assessment in music education, informed by the history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology of music education. Pedagogies such as Dalcroze, Gordon, Kodaly, and Orff are studied. Students will create sequential lesson plans, unit plans, and curriculum pieces that actively engage students in creating, performing, responding or connecting while developing significant musical knowledge, skills, and understandings. Students will design informal and formal assessments that effectively gauge students' development of musical knowledge, skills, and contextual understandings.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

EDM 520 STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR:MUSIC ED   3.0 Credit(s)
A weekly seminar to support candidates for certification as they negotiate the demands of student teaching.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

SLP 516 CLINICAL PRACTICUM VI   0.0-3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides students with live or simulation-based advanced experience in evaluation and treatment of communication and/or swallowing disorders in children and adults.
Offered: Winter Semester Contact Department

ED 598 SOCIAL JUSTICE & CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES   3.0 Credit(s)
Teachers have an opportunity and responsibility to teach students through pedagogies that sustain cultures and develop their students' advocacy for examining issues of social justice and working towards change. This course develops teacher practices of culturally sustaining pedagogies that promote social justice and explores ways to integrate them into academic content area curricula that reduce barriers within and between disciplines. Assignments require students to develop and teach content-based lessons at the intersection of culture and social justice linked to a clinical experience situated in city schools.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

MPH 530 FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC HEALTH   3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides an overview of the principles, concepts, and evidence-base approaches to public health. Topics include those elements that influence health, such as biological and genetic factors, social and behavioral determinants, environmental influences, socioeconomic and political factors.
Offered: Spring & Summer Semesters All Years