Program Distinctives and Benefits
Distinctives
Master of Music Education students gain a distinct advantage at APU's School of Music. Customized for current and prospective music educators, this program offers:
- Small classes
- Access to professors
- Interaction with performance groups
- Freedom to integrate faith into music education
- Opportunities in Los Angeles and surrounding cities for full-time, part-time, and substitute teaching jobs for music educators
Benefits
Current and prospective choral and instrumental music educators choose APU's Master of Music Education for its:
- Broad core of classes that address issues relevant to both instrumental and choral music education
- Research methods, musicology, style analysis, pedagogy, and the philosophical, psychological, social, and historical foundations of music education
- Specialized classes focused on the student's choice of instrumental or choral emphasis
- In-depth courses on arranging, choral conducting, and choral pedagogy for those with a choral emphasis
- In-depth courses on orchestration, instrumental conducting, and instrumental pedagogy for those with an instrumental emphasis
- Directed research culminating in a thesis (required for completion of the degree)
Note: This information is current for the 2008-09 academic year. For additional information, please contact the appropriate office.
