Undergraduate Program

By choosing music education as your major, you will be prepared for a career as a professional music teacher. UNT's music education degree program leads to Texas teacher certification in all-level music, opening an array of employment options. As a Texas certified music educator, you may teach instrumental or vocal music at the elementary or secondary level. With a bachelor's degree in music education from UNT, you could work as an elementary music specialist or as a middle school/high school band, choir, or orchestra director.

Core Curriculum

INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL CONCENTRATION:

MUED 2310 Principles of Music Study - An overview of sociological, psychological and philosophical foundations of music and music professions. Explores the relationships of these foundations to individual and group characteristics, vocational issues and concerns of musicians working as performers, teachers, administrators and business owners. A prerequisite for MUED 3100 and MUED 3200.


Dr. Rohwer leading a discussion of the students' recent observations in area schools.

MUED 3100 Music for Children - Comprehensive study of musical elements, structures, forms, genres, and exemplary literature as related to basic principles of child development. Principles of vocal and instrumental music performance as limited by developmental stages of children. Prerequisite - MUED 2310.



Students learning the Curwen hand signs, a skill they will need as future music educators.

MUED 3200 Principles and Methods of Teaching Music in Secondary Schools - Teaching methods and responsibilities common to choral and instrumental instruction in secondary schools. Covers such aspects as psychology of adolescents, recruitment procedures, rehearsal management, concert programming, performance preparation, fund raising, and adjudicated events. Prerequisite - MUED 2310.

VOCAL CONCENTRATION ONLY:

MUED 4103 Advanced Techniques and Materials for Elementary General Music Instruction - A site-based class which meets in a local elementary school. Techniques for instructional planning (K-6) utilizing aspects of various teaching approaches (Orff, Kodaly, Dalcroze, and eclectic). Principles of sequentially organized materials and activities for the young learner in general music. Prerequisites - MUED 2310 and MUED 3100.


Music education students gaining their initial teaching experiences in an actual classroom setting.

MUED 4203 Music Performance: Vocal/Choral - A site-based class that meets at a local secondary school. Principles of music performance using the vocal medium. Nature of and influences on the human voice and its use, performance practices and procedures, and music literature for vocal and choral performance. Prerequisites - MUED 2310 and MUED 3200.

MUED 1103 Techniques in Classroom Instruments - Fundamentals and literature in recorder consort; folk-guitar strumming techniques and applicability to other chordal instruments (dulcimer, autoharp); proper use and handling of melody and percussion instruments in general music instruction.


Students learning strumming techniques on the guitar.

INSTRUMENTAL CONCENTRATION ONLY:

MUED 4109 Methods and Materials for Teaching Instrumental Music in Elementary Schools - A site-based class which meets in a local middle school/junior high school. Rehearsal objectives, instructional techniques and materials specific to beginning band and orchestra; rehearsal management and organization; visual and aural diagnostic skills for teaching performance fundamentals; lab school field experience. Prerequisites - MUED 2310 and MUED 3100 and as applicable: MUAG 1102-1202, MUAG 1125-1225, MUAG 1121-1221, and MUAG 1117.

Mr. Johnson instructing the class on the basic techniques of violin, viola, cello and bass.

MUED 4209 Music Performance: Instrumental - Principles of music performance using the band and/or orchestra ensemble. Foundations of performance on band and/or stringed instruments, rescoring and arranging for band and/or orchestra, fundamentals of marching band, performance practices, and standard band and/or orchestra literature. Prerequisites - MUED 2310 and MUED 3200, and as applicable: MUAG 1102-1202, MUAG 1125-1225, MUAG 1121-1221, and MUAG 1117.