Summer Music Education-MME Program

The Summer Master of Music Education (MME) Program offers two concentrations: choral pedagogy and instrumental pedagogy. Students typically complete this degree over three summer semesters. A variety of course options are available and go live around the first week of March for the summer schedule of classes at classes.ku.edu.

Choral Pedagogy Summer Program

This program requires 30 credit hours consisting mainly of courses selected in collaboration with your advisor according to individual interests and career goals. There are thesis and non-thesis degree options.

Faculty Contact: Dr. Melissa Grady, mlgrady@ku.edu (choral pedagogy)
group of student singers

Other Classes Offered on a Rotational Basis

  • Conducting – Literature, Pedagogy, Techniques, and Analysis (repeatable yearly)
  • Children's Voices
  • Diction
  • Historical Choral Pedagogy
  • Adolescent Voices
  • Adolescent Changing Voices
  • Science-Based Voice Education
  • Current Topics in Music Education
  • Research Methods in Music Education

Facilities

Courses meet on the Lawrence Campus in Murphy Hall. The MEMT research suite has a variety of flexible spaces dedicated to graduate instruction and research, most with two-way mirrored surfaces. These include Music Instructional Clinic Spaces (large and small), with an adjoining observation area, a Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory, two Music Behavior Research Laboratories, and a Vocology Laboratory.

The School of Music Vocology Laboratory is an integral component of our programs in choral pedagogy and voice pedagogy, both of which offer opportunities to explore ongoing dialogue among musicians and voice science experts, In addition to honing superb teaching, conducting, performing, and musicological skills. The lab affords state-of-the-art resources for research-based approaches to real-world singing contexts and has both stationary and mobile capabilities.

Instrumental Pedagogy Summer Program

This program requires 30 credit hours consisting mainly of courses selected in collaboration with your advisor according to individual interests and career goals. There are thesis and non-thesis degree options.

Faculty Contact: Chris Johnson, cmj@ku.edu (instrumental pedagogy)
Two trumpet player performing

Other Classes Offered on a Rotational Basis

  • Advanced Instrumental Conducting
  • Advanced Woodwind Techniques
  • Advanced Brass Techniques
  • Advanced Percussion Techniques
  • Instrumental Repair
  • Advanced High Strings Techniques
  • Advanced Low Strings Techniques
  • Approaches to String Pedagogy 
  • Jazz Techniques
  • Marching Band Techniques
  • Psychology of Music for Music Education Practitioners 
  • Research Methods in Music Education
  • History of School Band and Orchestras

Facilities

Courses meet on the Lawrence Campus in Murphy Hall. The MEMT research suite has a variety of flexible spaces dedicated to graduate instruction and research, most with two-way mirrored surfaces. These include Music Instructional Clinic Spaces (large and small), with an adjoining observation area, a Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory, two Music Behavior Research Laboratories, and a Vocology Laboratory.

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