PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC EDUCATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Music: Education BM and sophomore standing Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain why music and music education are important, valuable, and meaningful. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate understandings of and dispositions toward music learning and teaching that are mindful, inclusive, respectful, empathic, relevant, and responsive to human difference. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop and demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, and honor for human differences, including gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, class, language, religion, and ability. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate developing awareness of the connection between how you think about music learning and teaching and how those beliefs play out in all decisions that you make regarding your music classroom. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop awareness of your own unique musical experiences and personality traits. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Identify traits of successful music educators and the professional characteristics, expectations, sensitivity, and interpersonal skills required of music educators. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain why music and music education are important, valuable, and meaningful. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate understandings of and dispositions toward music learning and teaching that are mindful, inclusive, respectful, empathic, relevant, and responsive to human difference. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop and demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, and honor for human differences, including gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, class, language, religion, and ability. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate developing awareness of the connection between how you think about music learning and teaching and how those beliefs play out in all decisions that you make regarding your music classroom. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop awareness of your own unique musical experiences and personality traits. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Identify traits of successful music educators and the professional characteristics, expectations, sensitivity, and interpersonal skills required of music educators. Audience: Undergraduate