Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Music Education

Why Choose the Certificate in Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Music Education?

In this program, you will:

• Learn with faculty who have knowledge and expertise in course content
• Experience courses designed to help you build the knowledge and skills to create atmospheres of belonging for all students in your music classes
• Have varied modalities among the courses, designed with the busy professionals in mind
• Quickly earn a graduate credential to enhance your resume and/or complete professional development requirements

What Will You Learn?

Students will learn how to create a more culturally relevant and sustaining learning environment for students through focused study in courses designed to meet the needs of today’s diverse music spaces.

Students will be able to choose courses that best align with their career.

Careers In Music Education

This certificate will enhance the preparation of teachers for the integration of culturally relevant and sustaining learning in their classrooms.

COURSE OFFERINGS

• Music Education for Diverse Learners (MUSI 357/557)
  Spring Asynchronous/Online with ~5 Synchronous Zoom Components
• Popular Music Pedagogy (MUSI 457/657)
  Summer Week-long In-Person Intensive
  
• Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Choral Arts (MUSI 356/556)
  Summer Week-long In-Person Intensive 
• Social Emotional Learning in Music Education (MUSI 456/656)
  Summer Asynchronous/Online
  
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Wind Band Literature (MUSI 458/658)
  Summer Asynchronous/Online with ~5 Synchronous Zoom Components
  

*Graduate Certificate: Choose three of the course offerings above. 
*Undergraduate Certificate: Choose four of the course offerings above. 

For-Credit Registration

• Current SRU Student
  • Register for either the Undergraduate or Graduate level. 
  • Students wishing to declare the "Certificate in Culturally Relevant & Sustaining Music Education must complete the Certificate Declaration Form.
• Non-SRU Student
  • Apply through undergraduate or graduate admissions as a non-degree seeking student.
  • Undergraduates will work with the ESAP Department for registration. 
  • Graduate students would work with Graduate Admissions for registration. 

CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Pennsylvania Collegiate Music Educators Association

Mu Phi Epsilon

Tau Beta Sigma

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Attention: To apply for admission, please use the following link to apply now.

• $25 Application Fee
• Official undergraduate degree transcript(s) (Official transcripts must be sent by the institution via electronic transcript to graduate.admissions@sru.edu or via mail.  Faxed copies are not considered official)
• SRU current/Alumni/former students click here to order your official SRU final transcript and have it sent to graduate.admissions@sru.edu 

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