Bachelor of Science [B.S] [Music Education] From Bob Jones University

Through classes such as Introduction to Music Education and the examples of your professors, you?ll begin to learn what it means to be a Christian musician-educator and how teaching music fits into the broader education profession. You?ll learn from historical influences and current trends in music education and develop your own philosophy of music education based on a Christian worldview.

You will choose voice, keyboard (piano or organ), guitar or one of the standard orchestral instruments as your principal proficiency. In addition to classes for your principal, you?ll take a variety of instrumental classes to prepare you to competently teach various musical instruments. You?ll study music theory, conducting and teaching methods, exposing you to diverse instructional methods and familiarizing you with up-to-date educational technology. You?ll also create standards-based lesson plans with integrated technology, accommodations for exceptional learners, appropriate assessment and much more.

Throughout your years at BJU, you?ll gain real-life experience in the classroom, culminating in a semester of clinical practice your senior year. You?ll have the opportunity to work with a teacher in a local public school and receive timely feedback in weekly meetings with a BJU professor. Education classes, a semester of clinical practice in a local public school, passing scores in the PRAXIS II exam and a favorable recommendation lead to South Carolina state teacher licensure for K-12.