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OVERVIEW
Ph.D. Studies in Choral and Vocal Pedagogy at the University of Kansas
Ph.D. Program in Music Education
Our Ph.D. degree emphasizes research and scholarship. At the same time, doctoral students are expected to have and continue to hone excellent musicianship skills,
including those in performance and conducting. Persons who aspire to careers in research and graduate-level teaching often seek this degree.
Degree requirements help the student develop broad and profound understanding of musical behaviors, sophisticated skill and extensive experience in pursuing new knowledge of
such behaviors, and a rational system for evaluating the relationships between the specialty and other areas of human understanding. The program culminates with a substantial
piece of original research.
Course requirements are flexible for this doctoral degree. Each student's program is planned specifically in light of his or her background and to meet the demands of the
anticipated academic and professional career. Each student is expected to achieve, however, a broad understanding of human musical behaviors and to become skilled in
researching such behaviors. Scholarly and professional competence, not hours of credit per se, are the underlying requirements for conferring the degree. For further
information on the structure and procedures of this Ph.D. degree program, please consult the MEMT Doctoral Handbook.
Ph.D. Emphases in Choral Pedagogy and Vocal Pedagogy
Students with backgrounds, defined interests, and career goals in choral singing pedagogy or voice pedagogy may, in consultation with an advisor and program planning committee,
structure their coursework, practica, and research endeavors to reflect emphases in these areas within the stated requirements for the Ph.D. degree. In so doing, students may
take advantage of opportunities available within the Division of Music Education and Music Therapy, the Voice Division, the Choral Division, the Department of Music & Dance,
the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing, other schools and colleges of the University, and off campus study such as that offered by the National Center for Voice and Speech,
the Voice Care Network, and the Voice Foundation.
Unique aspects of such emphases within the Ph.D. degree in music education at the University of Kansas include an orientation to evidence-based voice knowledge and teaching practices,
a Vocology Laboratory offering state of the art resources for research-based approaches to real world singing contexts, close affiliation with consulting laryngologists and speech
therapists, and opportunities to participate in ongoing research projects of the Singing Pedagogy Research Group. KU is on the leading edge of contemporary dialogue among voice
scientists, choral conductors, voice teachers, physicians, and other professionals who desire to learn from one another and thus forge mutual understandings between musicians and
scientists that advance knowledge and practices in choral pedagogy and voice pedagogy to the benefit of many millions of human beings worldwide who sing daily, both formally and informally,
either in choirs or as soloists.
In addition to such opportunities, both the Choral Pedagogy and Vocal Pedagogy Ph.D. Emphases encourage students to refine singing, conducting, and musicianship skills
through graduate music courses, private lessons, and ensembles.
For additional information about the Ph.D. emphases in choral pedagogy and vocal pedagogy, please follow the hyperlinks to the left. Should you have further questions,
please contact Dr. James F. Daugherty, Associate Professor of Choral and Vocal Pedagogy and Director of Graduate Studies in Music Education & Music Therapy (jdaugher at ku.edu).
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