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Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
A Concentration In
Choral Emphasis
An emphasis within the B.S. in Music Education — prepare to lead choirs and general music with skill and conviction.
Choral + General Methods
Choral methods plus general music methods
Choral Conducting
Dedicated conducting for the choral podium
Ensemble Experience
Chorale + a choice of ensemble electives
If the classroom you picture yourself leading is a choir room — students singing together, learning to blend, growing into musicians — the Choral emphasis prepares you to lead it well. It builds on the full Music Education music and secondary-education core with focused study of choral conducting, choral methods, and general music methods.
Alongside the shared music core (four semesters of theory and sight-singing, music history, applied lessons, piano) and the full secondary-education preparation (classroom management, exceptional learners, SEI methods, Directed Student Teaching), you’ll add sixteen credits shaped around the choral classroom: Choral Conducting, Choral Music Education Methods, General Music Education Methods, and Developmental Band, plus four semesters of Chorale and a choice of ensemble electives. You’ll graduate a certified music teacher, prepared to lead a choir and a general music classroom.
Conduct Choirs With Confidence
Study choral conducting — gesture, rehearsal technique, and score preparation for the choral podium.
Teach Choral Music
Learn methods for teaching choir at the secondary level, from repertoire to rehearsal to performance.
Teach General Music Too
Round out your preparation with general music methods for the elementary and middle-school classroom.
Understand Instrumental Ensembles
A developmental band course grounds you in the ensembles your students may join or participate in.
Sing With Skill Every Semester
Chorale each term keeps your own musicianship sharp while you prepare to lead others.
Choral teaching is uniquely communal — a group of singers becoming one voice. A Biblical Worldview shapes how you understand the students in your care and the music they're making together.
Every Voice Has Worth
Choral teaching includes the confident singer, the nervous first-year, and everyone in between — all image-bearers with something to contribute. That conviction shapes how you audition, place, and encourage every student.
Forms a rehearsal room where every singer is treated with dignity.
Music That Points Beyond Itself
Choral literature carries some of the deepest human expression — grief, joy, longing, praise. Framed by a theology of worship, teaching students to sing this repertoire well is teaching them to engage with what matters most.
Grounds your programming and rehearsal in music worth their time.
The Ensemble as Community
A choir functions when singers set self aside for the sound. That formative lesson — service, listening, contributing to something bigger — sits well within a Biblical Worldview of community.
Frames your ensemble as a place where character is formed alongside skill.
Choral Conducting
A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
MED 411Choral Music Education Methods and Literature
A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
MTC 331Choral Arranging and Conducting
A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
MEC 100Chorale
A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
MED 413General Music Education Methods and Literature
A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
The Choral emphasis prepares you specifically to lead choirs and general music at the K–12 level.
Middle & High School Choir Director
Lead choirs at the secondary level with dedicated choral conducting and methods preparation.
Elementary & Middle School General Music Teacher
Teach general music, supported by MED 413 General Music Methods.
Christian School Music Teacher
Teach music in Christian schools — choral direction is one of the most-requested music positions.
Community Choir & Church Music
Lead community choirs, church choirs, and worship arts alongside classroom work.
Graduate Study in Choral Conducting or Music Ed
Continue into a master's in choral conducting, choral literature, or music education.
The Choral emphasis focuses your Music Education degree squarely on the choir room — and rounds it out with general music preparation.
Focused Choral Preparation
Dedicated choral conducting and choral methods aimed at leading a choir well.
General Music Too
MED 413 rounds you out for elementary and middle-school general music classrooms.
Full Certification Track
Includes the Sec Ed core and a full semester of Directed Student Teaching.
Musician + Teacher Together
Built on the shared 22-cr music core, so you graduate a real musician who happens to teach.
Already drawn to the Music Education degree? Adding the Choral emphasis is simple.
Apply & Audition
Apply to ACU and audition on your primary instrument or voice.
Start Your ApplicationChoose Choral as Your Emphasis
Tell your music-education advisor you want the Choral track, and they'll sequence the choral methods and conducting into your plan.
Build Toward the Podium
Complete Music Theory II before Choral Conducting and the methods courses (they carry a MUS 102 prerequisite).
The Choral emphasis prepares you to conduct and teach at the choral podium — with the musicianship, methods, and certification schools require. Apply or reach out today.
