Teaching Endorsement Program Students who are completing a teaching major in elementary education may also pursue a teaching endorsement in general music. A teaching endorsement certifies the student to teach a given subject in grades K-6. In general, students will be able to complete the requirements for an endorsement in two semesters. K-6 certification to teach general music. The School of Music has fifty full-time faculty members, most of whom are tenured.
Classes vary from single students in studios to larger classes of thirty students.
The beautiful and acoustically superb Emens Auditorium is one of the showcases for music at Ball State. The contemporary Pruis Hall, home of the Ball State Symphony Orchestra, is used for many School of Music faculty and student performances. Operas are produced in University Theatre. Concerts are also held outdoors on the Bracken Library Performing Arts Plaza. The School of Music is proud of its two electronic multiple-keyboard class piano rooms, record library and listening headquarters, theory laboratory, Central Recording Services, piano workshop, and study laboratory with computers and music software.