As a Music Education master's degree student, you'll choose one of these options:
Field Study Option: Emphasizes teaching and includes opportunities to integrate performance studies and research with a school-based field study that demonstrates application of knowledge and skills from graduate study as a culminating project.
Recital Option: Emphasizes performance studies and includes opportunities to integrate research and teaching with a representative public recital that demonstrates advanced performance competence as a culminating project.
Thesis Option: Emphasizes research and includes opportunities to integrate performance and teaching with an original thesis that demonstrates advanced research and writing competence as a culminating project.
Certification Option: Designed for students who have an undergraduate degree in music other than music education. Coursework (including student teaching) leads to a professional certificate (birth-adult music, West Virginia) and is combined with a master’s degree in music education with the generation of a professional portfolio as a culminating project. Students begin this program with a series of undergraduate courses that are necessary for certification. This block of undergraduate courses ranges from 0 to 20 credits, depending on the student’s previous coursework.
Take advantage of special options related to this major:
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Honors
Expand your curiosity — and enhance your curriculum — through the WVU Honors College. Two programs are offered: Honors Foundations for first-
and second-year students and Honors EXCEL for third- and fourth-year students.
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