MUSC 359 - Professional Foundations II

Credits: (3)

Instructional Method: Three hours lecture
Prerequisites: MUSC 154, a declared major of music therapy, or permission of instructor.
This lecture-based course is a continuation of Professional Foundations I and will serve to deepen students’ knowledge of the professional requirements and dispositions of an ethical and competent music therapist. The course will focus on music- and non-music-based assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation of client progress, writing clinical goals and objectives, an introduction to music therapy research and an introduction to research writing/thinking in the discipline. Students will have the opportunity to observe upper level students in their music therapy clinical practicum placements and continue to develop clinical musicianship skills on piano, voice, guitar, and percussion.