MUCE 205 - Principles of Music Education

3 Credit(s)

Introduction and topical discussion of the foundations and principles of music education. Emphasis is placed on developing a personal view of teaching, surveying educational history and philosophy, understanding current education contexts, describing the status of contemporary children, interpreting classroom learning theories, establishing successful classroom environments, teaching lessons in today’s classrooms, outlining school organization and leaderships, examining schools and their partners. Topic understanding is facilitated by student special interest groups and field-based experiences and activities that are faculty guided. Numeric Only.