Prospective Music Educators
The Music Education program is run jointly by the Music Department and by the Hunter College School of Education. There is a basic core of education courses taught by the School of Education, two methods courses taught by the Music Department, additional required courses taught by the Music Department, and one semester of student teaching. A total of roughly 42 credits must be taken in order to graduate.
In certain cases, substitutions for these required courses may be made in consultation with the Graduate Adviser and the Director of Studies in Composition. A maximum of 12 credits transferred from other institutions might be accepted toward the M.A. Degree. For credits to transfer, the student must have gotten a B or higher in the class and the class must have occurred within the last four-five years. Substitutions for some required music classes may be made in consultation with the music department Graduate Adviser.
Prospective and current Music TEP students should review additional and important information about the Music Education program that is found on the School of Education’s website, including information about School of Education course prerequisites and corequisites.
Required classes are generally offered in the evening. However, several of those classes involve fieldwork (observing classes of public school students during the day). In addition, during the one required semester of student teaching, you are assigned all day, every day to an elementary school for one half of the semester and to a secondary school for the other half of the semester. All fieldwork and student teaching is done in the New York City Schools.
Prospective TEP students should contact Victor V. Bobetsky, Director of Music Education Studies, and the Music Department Graduate Adviser to find out more about our program.
Below are shown the requirements for the Music TEP degree:
SEDF 70300 - Social Foundations of Adolescent Education
SEDF 70400 - Adolescent Development, Grades 7-12
SEDF 70500 - Educational Psychology: Applications To Adolescent Education (KC)
SEDF 70600 - Assessment of Teaching and Learning in Adolescent Education
SPED 70800 - Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Classrooms
SEDC 71000 - Building the Foundations of Literacy in Adolescent Education
SEDC 72000 - Adolescent Health and Safety
MUSED 67700 - Methods of Teaching Instrumental Music, Grades Pre-K-12
MUSED 67800 - Methods of Teaching Vocal And General Music, Grades Pre K-12
Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
SEDC 75600 - Student Teaching in Music, Pre-K-12 (KC)
SEDC 77610 - Practicum in Music, Grades Pre-K-6 (KC)
AND SEDC 77620 - Practicum in Music, Grades 7-12 (KC)
MUS 64100 - Strings
MUS 64300 - Woodwinds
MUS 64500 - Brass
MUS 64700 - Percussion
MUS 64900 - Piano Skls Mus Tchrs
MUS 65100 - Conducting
Students who have studied these subjects at the undergraduate level may be exempted from these requirements.
MUS 72400 - Advanced Studies In Music Theory 1
MUS 75100 - Advanced Studies in Musicology 1
MUS 75200 - Advanced Studies in Musicology 2
MUS 77900 - World Music Education
Earn at least 3 credits
Music electives: Courses chosen in consultation with graduate adviser (3 cr)
For students with no NYS certification
Additional Comments:
Please note that students admitted to the program must take a proficiency examination during the first two semesters of matriculation in order to remain in the program. This examination will test competence in music theory, music history and literature, and applied skills. Deficiencies revealed by the proficiency examination must be made up by studying the relevant subject matter and passing a reexamination. The proficiency examination requirement must be fulfilled before a student may proceed beyond 18 credits.
MUSED 67700 - Methods of Teaching Instrumental Music, Grades Pre-K-12
MUSED 67800 - Methods of Teaching Vocal And General Music, Grades Pre K-12
SEDC 77610 - Practicum in Music, Grades Pre-K-6 (KC)
OR SEDC 77620 - Practicum in Music, Grades 7-12 (KC)
Music Courses
MUS 72400 - Advanced Studies In Music Theory 1
MUS 72500 - Advanced Studies in Music Theory II
MUS 75100 - Advanced Studies in Musicology 1
MUS 75200 - Advanced Studies in Musicology 2
MUS 77900 - World Music Education
MUS 79200 - Independent Study
Take 4 credits from the following, in consultation with the Director of Music Education
Complete ANY of the following Courses:
MUS 64100 - Strings
MUS 64300 - Woodwinds
MUS 64500 - Brass
MUS 64700 - Percussion
MUS 64900 - Piano Skls Mus Tchrs
MUS 65100 - Conducting
MUS 68100 - Private Instruction in Instrument or Voice
MUS 68200 - Private Instruction in Instrument or Voice
MUS 68300 - Private Instruction in Instrument or Voice
MUS 68400 - Private Instruction in Instrument or Voice
MUS 71000 - The Hunter Symphony
MUS 71100 - The College Choir
MUS 71300 - Chamber Music
MUS 71400 - Collegium Musicum
MUS 71500 - Jazz Ensemble
MUS 71500 - Jazz Ensemble
3 Music Elective Credits
For students who have NYS certification in Music PreK-12
Click here for the graduate catalog’s list of required courses for the MA-Music TEP degree
As a culminating project, Music TEP students are required to prepare a portfolio containing examples of their work. These can include papers which have been graded and commented on by professors, lesson plans, and student reflections on their own growth and experiences throughout the program. It is important that you save all of your work from all of your classes. During the semester when you student teach, Professor Bobetsky will guide you in the preparation of your portfolio.
It is expected that all Music TEP students will become members of Hunter’s collegiate chapter of the National Association for Music Education (MENC). See Professor Bobetsky for application materials.
For Frequently Asked Questions, see FAQs – Graduate.
