Program Overview

Music Education, Vocal, B.M.E.

Learning Outcomes

Students graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the School of Music will:

1. Develop technical skills requisite for artistic self-expression in at least one major performance area. Students must acquire an understanding of repertory in their major performance area, the ability to read music at sight, rehearsal and conducting skills necessary to work as a leader, keyboard competency and collaborative competence and knowledge of repertory through regular and varied ensemble experiences. (Performance)
2. Develop an understanding of compositional processes, an ability to work conceptually with musical structures, and the ability to defend musical judgements. Demonstrate the ability to hear, identify and work conceptually with rhythm, melody and harmony. (Musicianship Skills, Music Theory, Ear Training and Analysis)
3. Create and present original or derivative music, including jazz-specific course offerings and ensembles that focus on harmonization. (Composition/Improvisation)
4. Acquire and demonstrate knowledge of music literature and style periods from Greek Classicism to the contemporary era, and include elements of World Music. (History and Repertory)

Tulsa Curriculum and First Year Experience (46 hours)

• FYE 1001 First Year Experience
• ENGL 1033 Exposition and Argumentation or
  • FS 1963 First Seminar I and
  • FS 1900 Writing Studio
• FS 1973 First Seminar II
• MUS 4363 Music in the Secondary Schools *
• Language (8 hours)**
• MATH 1083 Contemporary Mathematics or
  • MATH 1143 Mathematical Functions

General Education

• Quad I: Creative Arts (6 hours)
• Quad II: Humanities (6 hours)
• Quad III: Social Sciences (6 hours)
• Quad IV: Natural and Applied Sciences (7 hours)

Some major required courses may be double counted to fulfill a quad requirement.

Notes:

*Music education majors enroll in MUS 4363 Music in the Secondary Schools to fulfill their senior seminar requirement. B.M.E. students are required to take two semesters of a foreign language (one year).MUS 2073 Musical Experience does not count for Quad II credit in the B.M.E. degree.

Required Music Courses

• Voice (Studio Lessons) (8 hours)
• Piano (6 hours)
• Music Ensembles (8 hours)
• MUS 1000 Freshman Recital Class (two semesters)
• MUS 2000 Sophomore Recital Class (two semesters)
• MUS 3000 Junior Recital Class (two semesters)
• MUS 4000 Senior Recital Class (two semesters)
• MUS 1011 Ear Training Lab I
• MUS 1013 Music Theory I
• MUS 1021 Ear Training Lab II
• MUS 1023 Music Theory II
• MUS 1031 Guitar Proficiency
• MUS 1043 Jazz: Mirror of American Society
• MUS 2011 Ear Training Lab III
• MUS 2013 Music Theory III
• MUS 2021 Ear Training Lab IV
• MUS 2023 Music Theory IV
• MUS 2092 Diction for Singers I
• MUS 3062 Instrumental/Choral Conducting I (Section 02 Choral Conducting)
• MUS 3163 Elementary Music Education
• MUS 3253 Music History I
• MUS 3263 Music History II
• MUS 3273 Music History III
• MUS 4162 Instrumental/Choral Conducting II (Section 02 Choral Conducting)
• MUS 4403 Vocal Pedagogy

Professional Education Courses (27 hours)

• EDUC 1101 Introduction to Education
• EDUC 2103 Foundations of Education
• EDUC 3171 Educational Technology for Instruction
• EDUC 3713 Child and Adolescent Development and Learning
• EDUC 3733 Measurement and Evaluation
• EDUC 4013 Education of the Exceptional Child
• EDUC 4971 Seminar in Student Teaching
• Two of the following:
  • EDUC 4616 Student Teaching in Elementary School
  • EDUC 4626 Student Teaching in Middle School
  • EDUC 4636 Student Teaching in Senior High School

Note:

Vocal music education majors must meet the piano and guitar proficiency requirements.

Total: 124 hours

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