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Course Syllabus

MUSC 3170 Elementary Music Methods

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: MUSC 2120
  • Semesters Offered: Spring
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2022
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2027
  • End Semester: Summer 2028
  • Optimum Class Size: 20
  • Maximum Class Size: 30

Course Description

This course teaches best practice methods for teaching music in K-6 schools. The curriculum focuses on outcomes delineated in the National Standards for Music Education, and the Utah State Board of Education Standards for Music Education. This course is required for students completing the Snow College/Weber State University music education licensure program.

Justification

This course is required for certification as a K-12 music educator in Utah. It is recommended for students pursing an elementary education degree who may include music in their classroom curriculum.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will learn and demonstrate proper methods for teaching rhythm to children, using hybrid sight to sound techniques derived from Kodaly, Suzuki, and Gordon.
  2. Students will learn and demonstrate proper methods for teaching melody and harmony to children, by teaching and expending children's vocabularies of melodic words, and the relationship of these words to tonality.
  3. Students will learn and demonstrate proper methods for timbre and the expressive elements of music to children.
  4. Students will learn and demonstrate proper methods for teaching musical form to children.
  5. Students will learn and demonstrate proper methods for developing musical skill in children, including singing voice, playing musical instruments, listening skills, and movement.
  6. Students will learn and demonstrate proper methods for organizing instruction through the creation of lesson plans, complete with assessment measures.

Course Content

*demonstrate proper methods for teaching rhythm to children, using hybrid sight-to-sound techniques derived from Kodaly, Suzuki, and Gordon.
*mastery of the theoretical aspects of these methods will be assessed by written examinations.
*proper methods for teaching melody and harmony to children, by teaching and expanding children's vocabularies of melodic words, and the relationship of these words to tonality.
*demonstrate the use of these methods in a classroom setting.
*demonstrate proper methods for timbre and the expressive elements of music to children.
*demonstrate proper methods for teaching musical form .*demonstrate proper methods for developing musical skills in children, including singing voice, playing musical instruments, listening skills, and movement
*demonstrate proper methods for organizing instruction through the creation of lesson plans, complete with assessment measures.