Teaching Artistry (Online)

Designed to meet the demands of practitioners currently employed in teaching music who are looking for a path to continue developing skills and insight into the profession and deepen their knowledge of pedagogy.

Program goals

The program is designed to utilize students’ actual current teaching as a laboratory for developing concepts learned through a distance education platform. Students must hold a formal or non-formal teaching position.

Online diagnostic examinations in Music Theory and Music History will be administered at the beginning of the degree program. Remediation, if needed, will occur during the Workshop in Music classes that are required in the fall and spring semesters.

Your Degree, Your Way

Complete the full master’s degree in 15 months (summer, fall, spring, summer). The online learning program offers scheduling freedom and savings on time and travel costs. While learning is ensured with certified quality and constant improvement.   

With online delivery and straightforward requirements for entry and graduation, the master of music education, teaching artistry specialization will open doors to new knowledge, skills and career possibilities.

Curriculum

Great music teachers transform the lives of their students. Our rigorous curriculum - based on scholarship, musicianship and teaching - creates transformative music educators who bring the joy of music into students’ lives, often for the first time.

Students undertake mentor-guided laboratory experiences with observations and discussions via distance technology and online discussion groups.

Through the use of mentor teachers, faculty committees, individualized and group in­struction and faculty-driven curricular benchmarks, students will gain critical peda­gogical skills, which teachers can implement immediately in their professional work. We turn your classroom into our classroom - allowing you to apply what you learn in your own planning and instruction.

BGSU eCampus Quality Matters recognition

BGSU is the only university in Ohio to earn the Quality Matters Online Learner Support certificate that recognizes our commitment to online student success. You can be confident you'll receive the same support as our on-campus students. All BGSU student and academic services are fully accommodated online, from accessing the University Libraries materials to academic advising to remote sessions for technical support.

Program Information

Applicants should possess an appropriate undergraduate degree and the potential for advanced study as evidenced by musical and intellectual abilities and achievements. Applicants must demonstrate basic skills in distance learning technologies along with an ability to do independent work.

The program consists of eight-week classes delivered 100% online. Students have access to the same world-class faculty as our in-person degrees. The master in music education with a specialization in teaching artistry offers every student an individual teaching mentor.