Beginning with the freshman year, all students are involved in a variety of observation and participatory public school experiences that are jointly provided by the Departments of Music and Education. Music education majors also have an opportunity to work with Otterbein's Kinderchor , our children's choir program. Otterbein's placement record of its B.M.E. graduates is exemplary, achieving 95 to 100 percent in recent years. The B.A. program offers broad, flexible coverage of the field, and it is easily combinable with other majors and minors. It includes performance studies and the entire core of music theory, conducting, and history courses.
Students have the option to take additional electives according to their interests.
The B. Mus. degree puts primary emphasis on the skills, concepts, and sensitivities essential to the life of the performing musician. This degree program is not combinable with other majors and minors in a four-year time frame. This popular and successful program involves a major in music and a minor in business administration. It includes an internship in the senior year, which may be at either a neaby or a distant location according to the student's interests. This is an opportunity to create a personalized major for a focused goal that does not fit within the present requirements of the department major-minor system.