Course

MED411: Choral Music Education Methods and Literature

A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.

3 Credits
Credits
Undergraduate
Level
Lecture + discussion
Format
Spring
Typical Terms

Course Description

Overview of both administrative and instructor skills needed to teach choral music in schools and churches successfully. Topics covered include organization, repertoire selection, designing and building a choral program, auditions, concert programming, developing proper vocal and choral tone, understanding child/adolescent/adult voices, group vocal training, voice classification and more.
Practicum: Fifteen (15) hours of approved observation required.

Prerequisites

Corequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

1

Engage the Course Material

Build a working understanding of choral music education methods and literature as the course's central subject.

2

Apply Discipline Methods

Use the methods, vocabulary, and frameworks of the discipline to address course problems.

3

Connect Course Content

Connect this course's content to broader work in the discipline and related fields.

4

Demonstrate Course Competencies

Demonstrate the specific competencies the course is designed to develop.

Biblical Worldview Connection

A Biblical Worldview treats music as a craft worth doing well — a way of engaging beauty, skill, and worship with the seriousness any vocation deserves.

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