Music Education Program
The purpose of the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education is to prepare highly effective music educators within an environment of collaboration, innovation, and faith. These educators will demonstrate knowledge and performance skill in the field of music, sensitivity to students' diverse learning needs, engagement in scholarship and inquiry, motivation of their students' to become life-long learners, and a careful examination of their worldview and integration of Christian principles.
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Focus
The Music Education program at Union University is a pre-service program focused on preparing prospective music educators for teaching instrumental and vocal music, grades K-12, in private, public, and Christian schools. Students develop their educational skills through practical instruction, innovative teaching methodology, and Christ-centered educational philosophy. The program is based on the National Standards for Arts Education in Music and the requirements for licensure established by the Tennessee Department of Education. All undergraduate degree programs in Music Education culminate in a Bachelor's degree in music and a Tennessee K-12 music teaching license. The music education programs include a full year internship, which in most states may count as one year of teaching.
Emphasis
- Training students for the private, public, and Christian school market
- Preparing students to develop community music programs connected with the local church
- Teaching students to reclaim the culture for Christ through music education
- Challenge students to develop diverse musical skills in broad stylistic contexts
- Instruct students in techniques of improvisation as a means of musical communication
- Providing student teaching as a means of extended training and professional preparation
Program Learning Outcomes
The student will be able to:
- Demonstrate technical skills necessary for artistic self-expression in music performance at a level appropriate for the professional degree in music. (NASM VIII.B.1.a)
- Apply understanding of musical forms, styles, processes, and structures in composition, arranging, improvisation, performance, audio production, and analytical applications appropriate for the professional degree in music. (NASM VIII.B.2.b)
- Integrate Christian faith into the discipline of music.
- Demonstrate synthesis of music and education coursework and development of skill expected in the music education field through expertise displayed in the student teaching internship experience.
