Program Overview

Music Education Degree with Teacher Certification

Program Overview

The Music Education Degree with Teacher Certification is a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) program that prepares students for a career as a professional music teacher. The program leads to Texas teacher certification in all-level music, opening an array of employment options.

Program Details

• Program Type: Bachelor of Music (B.M.) with Teacher Certification
• Major: Music Education
• Teaching Certification: All-level music
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 4 years
• Credit Hours: 128

Why Earn a Degree in Music Education?

The Division of Music Education develops professional educators through an innovative and cutting-edge curriculum. Students can choose from six degree specialization options to help them pursue their passion, including:

• Choral
  • Keyboard or Guitar
  • Vocal
• Instrumental
  • Band, Woodwinds, Brass or Percussion
  • Band/Orchestra
  • Elementary
  • Orchestra

Marketable Skills

• Understand age-specific pedagogical practices
• Interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of current trends in music education
• High level of musicianship
• Oral and written communication

Program Highlights

• Faculty members are dedicated teachers and nationally and internationally known performers, clinicians, conductors, writers, and researchers.
• A Living-Learning Community brings together music education students who live on campus to enhance academic and social experiences.
• Access to one of the nation's largest music libraries.
• Classes with an average 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio.
• Perfect instrumental or voice techniques in one of 300 practice rooms.
• Perform in state-of-the-art performance halls with exceptional acoustics.
• The College of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.

Outreach Programs

• Denton New Horizons Senior Band
• Start Up The Band Program
• UNT Early Childhood Music Program
• UNT String Project

Career Opportunities

• Director of a middle school or high school band, choir, or orchestra
• Elementary school music specialist
• Private instructor
• Administrator of church education or early childhood education programs

Courses

• Aural Skills I (1 hr)
• Musicianship for Teaching I (2 hrs)
• Music Cultures of the World (3 hrs)
• American Music (3 hrs)
• Music as Communication (3 hrs)
• Theory I (2 hrs)