Career Opportunities Graduates of the program work with all age groups, with a wide range of physiological, cognitive and emotional disorders, in a variety of clinical settings or in private practice. They are trained to work as part of a health care team. The Music Therapy program at Capilano offers the third and fourth years leading to the Bachelor of Music Therapy granted by the Open University. All four years may be completed at Capilano College. The program blends academic and experiential course work.
Students deepen their experience of music, creative expression and the role of the arts.
They are encouraged to explore their values, beliefs, feelings and communication patterns, to increase their effectiveness in the field. They have field work in a different setting for each of the four terms, in which they are given increasing responsibility to design, implement and evaluate their own treatment programs, under clinical supervision. Continuance in the Music Therapy program will be contingent upon an adequate level of personal, academic and clinical skills as jointly evaluated each semester by the Music Therapy faculty. Music therapy is a helping profession in which music therapists work with clients who are in a state of disability. The therapist is the helper.