Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Music Education, Certificate

Program Overview

This undergraduate program equips music majors and minors with the knowledge and skills to create culturally relevant and sustainable music classrooms. It emphasizes reflection on cultural identity, understanding of diversity, and addressing systems of oppression. The curriculum includes courses on music education for diverse learners, social-emotional learning, and culturally responsive teaching.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This program aims to equip undergraduate students, primarily music majors and minors, with the knowledge and skills to establish more culturally relevant and sustainable classrooms for their future students. The program emphasizes focused study in courses tailored to the needs of contemporary diverse music classrooms.

Objectives:

• To foster reflection on one's cultural identity and its potential impact on teaching practices.
• To familiarize students with current terminology associated with culturally sustaining and relevant music education, promoting an asset-based perspective of differences.
• To help students recognize and address systems of privilege, bias, and oppression prevalent in educational systems, inspiring actions towards creating more equitable environments for all learners.
• To cultivate respect, acknowledgment, and affirmation of diverse identities, histories, cultures, and value systems of students, emphasizing the avoidance of microaggressions.
• To enable students to modify, design, and facilitate instructional practices, materials, and environments that are culturally relevant, sustaining, and responsive, supporting the success of all learners.
• To enhance communication with the families and communities of learners through modified, designed, or facilitated practices and materials.

Outline:

The program curriculum encompasses the following courses:

• MUSI 357Music Education for Diverse Learners
• MUSI 456Social Emotional Learning in Music Education
• MUSI 458Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Wind Band Literature
• MUSI 457Popular Music Pedagogy