MUS 526 Action Research in Music Education
A capstone course for the Master of Arts in Teaching Music (MAT, to be taken concurrently with the student teaching internship. The course will provide guided support for research that will explore (a) inquiry into a relevant and approved aspect of instruction, curriculum, or other valid area of K-12 music teaching and learning (the topic, will be informed by the particular context and/or content of each individual student's concurrent student teaching internship), and (b) application of current and best practice models that may be applied to that particular student teaching internship. A final research document that reports on procedures, results and implications of the project will be required at the conclusion of the course. Prerequisites: MUS 453 and MUS 454 for the Gen/Choral Music Emphasis or MUS 455 and MUS 456 for the Instrumental Music Emphasis; enrollment concurrently with appropriate student teaching course section: MUS 521E, 521F, 521G for the Gen/Choral Music Emphasis or MUS 522E, 522F, 522G for the Instrumental Music Emphasis.
Prerequisite
Requires completion of one of the following pairs: MUS 453 & MUS 454 or MUS 455 & MUS 456