Music and Music Teaching 3

The course comprises three modules and prepares students for practical placement in the area of music.

Module 1: Instrument 5 ECTS cr
Components:
-main instrument instruction and ensemble play
-strategies for learning music parts

Module 2: Additional instruments 4 ECTS cr
Components:
-understanding basic notation and playing different accompaniment patterns on the piano
-familiarity with choir repertoire, voice treatment and voice function, and the processing and formation of musical expression in choir singing
-practical, creative exercises and reflections in groups where rhythm is used as a method of integrating different areas such as metrics, dance/movement, voice, drama in a holistic perspective on music learning.

Module 3: Music pedagogy 6 ECTS cr
Components:
-descriptions, analyses, and discussions of planning, assessment, and evaluation models and general music teaching issues
-concrete applications, analyses, problematisations, and discussions of their own and others' instrumental teaching
-instrumental teaching methodology seminars on chosen themes
-advanced methodological aspects of the chosen approach for the main instrument
-supervised practice teaching on the main instrument in school or music school
-reflections on completed supervised practice teaching
-basic methodological and group dynamic aspects on ensemble teaching.

Progressive specialisation: G1F (has less than 60 credits in first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)

Education level: Undergraduate level

Selection:

Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.