MUSI 4342 - Choral Materials I

This course is designed to facilitate the development of skills, techniques, understandings and professional dispositions, which are important to working with young people in choral music-making and learning, and necessary to the successful planning and implementation of a choral music education program for middle school/junior high and high school students. In addition, this course encourages students to understand themselves better as people and educators in relationship to their future students and the greater profession. In this course, students will explore topics of vocal pedagogy, literature selection, educational considerations, rehearsal techniques and strategies, program planning and development, musical literacy, learning environments, musical assessment and evaluation, personal practical knowledge and related teacher images, and professionalism. Students will have experience in planning a secondary choral program, implementing teaching strategies and techniques, selecting and evaluating literature, considering greater educational issues, and making critical assessments of musical and teaching observations.
Repeated: No