The Bachelor of Music Education degree is designed to prepare students for careers in music education and leads to a K-12 teaching license. Because of the varying demands and opportunities in teaching, students will have experience working with choral and instrumental ensembles and teaching general music.
Most students ultimately specialize in either general music, choral, band, or orchestral teaching.
The course of study for music education majors includes music theory and aural skills, music history, conducting and liberal arts. Music education majors study with applied faculty on their major instrument and have opportunities to perform in solo recitals and with a variety of ensembles. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music Education program have opportunities to observe and work with music teachers in the schools starting in their sophomore year. During the junior year, students participate in methods courses that investigate appropriate teaching strategies and materials. The culminating experience of the degree program is the student teaching semester.