String Education @ KU
The String Music Education program @ KU focuses on homogeneous and heterogenous pedagogy specific to bowed-string instrument (i.e., violin, viola, cello, and double-bass). Degree programs include the BME, MME, and Ph.D. The undergraduate program focuses extensively on developing the knowledge and skills required of a successful state-certified string teacher in public and private schools of Kansas and its reciprocating States. Coursework includes private applied lessons, orchestral and chamber ensembles, string technique, string teaching methods, conducting, as well as clinical and field experiences within the Lawrence Public Schools, Lawrence Youth Symphony Orchestra, and surrounding school districts. Our full-time graduate degrees focus specifically on the unique needs of each graduate student. A string Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) is available pending a vacancy and an application process. Contact Dr. Dakon for more information.
For more information on the string education courses offered, see the list below. To see the entire undergraduate curriculum, see MEMT degrees @ KU. For a list of string education graduates, click here.
For more information on the string education courses offered, see the list below. To see the entire undergraduate curriculum, see MEMT degrees @ KU. For a list of string education graduates, click here.
String Courses
Undergraduate Coursework
String-Specific Graduate Courses
String-Specific Summer Graduate Courses Currently Available:
* Offerings are subject to change without prior notification. See course catalogue for most up-to-date listings.
- MEMT 118: Performance Medium--String Methods (Introduction to basic performance skills and teaching strategies for the violin, viola, cello,and double bass)
- MEMT 232: Performance Lab--Orchestra (Introduction to intermediate performance skills and teaching strategies for the violin, viola, cello, and double bass)
- MEMT 332: Rehearsal and Conducting Clinic--Orchestra (Clinical lab setting that emphasizes instructional behaviors typical of beginning string-orchestra courses)
- MEMT 352: Advanced Rehearsal and Conducting Clinic--Orchestra (Lecture and field experience that emphasizes instructional behaviors and topics important in beginning, intermediate, and advanced string orchestra courses)
- MEMT 432: Approaches to String Pedagogy (Examines historical, traditional, and contemporary concepts, skills, and pedagogical strategies that align with intermediate and advanced homogenous and heterogeneous string curricula)
- MEMT 451: Teaching Instrumental Music (Examines curricular and administrative topics relevant to string and band classes in the public school setting)
String-Specific Graduate Courses
- MEMT 791: Graduate String Methods--Examines the research surrounding philosophical frameworks, learning theories, instructional behaviors, and pedagogical strategies as they pertain to string education.
String-Specific Summer Graduate Courses Currently Available:
- MEMT 791: String Methods--examines the concepts, skills, and pedagogical strategies that align with heterogeneous string curricula. (Offered 2015, 2018*)
- MEMT 791: The String Curriculum--examines curricular documents relevant to string education in the 21st Century from an informal and formal music learning perspective. (Offered 2016, 2019*)
* Offerings are subject to change without prior notification. See course catalogue for most up-to-date listings.