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What You'll Learn

With support from faculty members who are active performers, composers and scholars, students complete foundational courses in piano, music theory, aural skills, music history, and conducting. They also take six semesters of individual lessons and perform a public recital.  Additional coursework in music education ranges from teaching strategies and materials, classroom management, and music program organization to methods for using music technology in music education. Students complete a two-semester student teaching experience in the public schools. In addition, students participate in a wide variety of ensembles including the 500-member Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, which has performed in the Macy鈥檚 Day Parade and Rose Parade and won the John Philip Sousa Foundation鈥檚 Sudler Trophy. Students also attend some of the more than 200 concerts and recitals the School of Music presents annually, while the school鈥檚 visiting artist series enables students to study with and perform alongside professional working musicians.

Where You'll Go

Graduates of the music education program are prepared to take exams to be licensed to teach music in North Carolina public schools at the elementary, middle or high school levels. 蘑菇短视频graduates enjoy an excellent rate of placement into teaching positions. Students also may pursue graduate degrees in music or education to expand their career options and be able to teach at institutions of higher education.

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