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Master of Music Education
CIP 13.1312
 
  Each candidate's program is individually arranged with the approval of the graduate coordinator in the Department of Music. The program is in accord with requirements for the Kentucky Certificate for Teaching Music Grades K-12 and includes a 12-semester-hour specialization component.
 
Thesis Track
Total Course Requirements - 30 Hours
 
Professional Education Courses - 12 Hours
 
  EDU 633   Curriculum Development
  MUS 600   Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Music Education
  MUS 601   Psychological Foundations of Music Education
  MUS 639   Methods of Research in Music Education
 
Specialization Component - 12 Hours
 
  MUS 610   Theory and Analysis in Relation to Performance and Literature (required)
  MUS 659   Historical Perspectives of Music (required)
  MUS 629   Contemporary Instructional Practices in Music Education (required)
    and
  MUS 627   The Elementary Music Program
    or
  MUS 628   The Secondary Music Program
 
Theses - 6 Hours
 
  MUS 698   Music Thesis I
  MUS 699   Music Thesis II
 
Other Degree Requirements
 

  Written comprehensive examinations over all music and music education course work will be administered upon completion of all music course work and at least 24 hours of the total course work. The student must complete the Application for Comprehensive Examination form, pay all required fees, and pass the functional keyboard proficiency before the examination is administered.

An application for the comprehensive examination must be filed in the Graduate Admissions Office during the first three weeks of the semester in which the student plans to take the examination. The application form may be obtained at http://www.murraystate.edu/masters/comp_exam_app.htm .

 
Department of Music Comprehensive Examination Dates
 
 
 
Non-Thesis Track
Total Course Requirements - 30 Hours
 
  Same as above with the following substitution for theses:
Approved MSU electives, 500 or 600 level (6 hours).
 
 
The requirements listed above are an example of what is applicable to most students entering Murray State University at the present time. Criteria as they may relate to individual students may vary. The primary source is the Graduate Bulletin applicable at the time of the student enrollment.
  Department of Music
504 Fine Arts Building
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071

Phone: 270.809.4288
Fax: 270.809.3965
         
 
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