The Doctoral Cohort Program is a unique offering designed for music faculty members holding full-time academic appointments who are interested in completing a doctoral program.
Displaying requirements for the Spring 2024, Summer 2024, and Fall 2024 terms.
In addition to Teachers College's policies for student progress and degree completion, students within the Program of Music and Music Education enrolled in a degree program in the department as of Fall Term 2021 or admitted later must meet the following requirements:
Failure to remain in good standing will result in students being placed on program academic probation for a period of one semester. If placed on academic probation students will be notified by their Advisor and the Registrar's office. Students will be restricted to part-time registration until their grades are above the minimum level. The intent of Academic Probation is to provide students the opportunity to raise their grades to minimum levels so that they may continue to pursue their academic goals. Once placed on academic probation, a student’s grades will be reviewed regularly based on academic level; master's students will be reviewed after completion of 6 credit hours and doctoral students after completion of 3 credit hours.
Master's students can be placed on academic probation no more than twice during their academic program. Placement on academic probation beyond the first time will be based on completing the previous academic probation period with grades above a B.
Doctoral students can be placed on academic probation only once during their academic program.
Displaying catalog information for the Fall 2023, Spring 2024 and Summer 2024 terms.
The Ed.D. in College Teaching Summer Cohort Program is designed primarily for students with a high level of performance skills whose goal or present position is focused on the pedagogy of performance in higher education. Applicants must have significant prior professional experience at the college/university level. The EdD.C.T. Summer Cohort Program is a unique offering designed for music faculty members holding full-time academic appointments who are interested in completing a doctoral program. Students receive individual attention due to the small cohort size of incoming classes.Additionally, students in the summer cohort are expected to be in New York during the summer B session and take at least 12-18 credits (4-5 courses) each year (across Fall, Spring, Summer), with at least 9 credits (3-4 courses) taken each summer (across both summer sessions).
Requirements include:
1) Satisfactory completion of a program of 90 graduate points beyond the baccalaureate degree,
2) Successful performance on a departmental certification examination, and
3) Preparation and defense of a dissertation.
At least 54 points of work must be completed at Teachers College. A maximum of 36 graduate points may be accepted from other recognized graduate schools. Transfer credits are evaluated and allocated by the Registrar's Office for consideration by the Music and Music Education Program. Final determinations are made by Program faculty.
Doctoral students must complete a minimum of 15 points of coursework in areas other than those in the Music Program. For the Ed.D. in College Teaching program, two of these courses must be in the area of higher education.
To ensure breadth in professional background, coursework should result in competency in
the following four broad areas: (1) Pedagogy, (2) Research, (3) Musicianship, and (4) Music Performance. Refer to the catalog for course listings under these general headings.
The preparation and the defense of a dissertation is required for the doctoral degree. When writing the dissertation, each candidate has a sponsor and an additional committee member. Most often the sponsor is a faculty member of the Program in Music and Music Education. Committee members may be chosen from among the professorial faculty elsewhere at Teachers College or Columbia University. Topics are selected from a variety of areas to meet professional needs and interests.
Pedagogy (minimum: 15 points including transferrable credits)
Suggested courses:
A&HM 5020 Foundations of Music Education, 3 points
A&HM 5022 Children’s Musical Development, 3 points
A&HM 5025 Creativity and Problem Solving in Music Education, 3 points
A&HM 5027 Philosophical Perspectives of Music Education, 3 points
Additional courses:
A&HM 4021 Designing Musical Experiences for Young Children, 3 points
A&HM 4023 Choral Pedagogy, 2-3 points
A&HM 4029 Intro to New Technologies in Music Education, 2 points
A&HM 4033 Approaches to Teaching Musical Instruments, 3 points
A&HM 4050 Strategies for Ensemble Rehearsal, 3 points
A&HM 5021 Instrumental Experiences for Children, 2-3 points
A&HM 5023 Voice Pedagogy, 2-3 points
A&HM 5029 Int/Adv Applications of New Technology in Music Education, 2 points
Music in Higher Education (9 points) Required courses:
A&HM 6001 Teaching and Administration of Music in College 3 points
A&HM 6023 Teaching Applied Music in College 3 points
A&HM 6481 Internship in the Teaching of College Music 3 points
Musicianship and Music Performance (minimum: 28 points including transferrable credits)
At least 1 of the following:
A&HM 5032 Comprehensive Musicianship I, 3 points
A&HM 5026 Composing Collaboratively Across Diverse Styles, 3 points
Certification requirement:
A&HM 6058 Music Performance, 1 point
Applied Music and Ensemble courses:
Applied Conducting, 2 points
Applied Composition, 2 points
Applied Instrument, 2 points
Applied Voice, 2 points
A&HM 5052 Vocal Literature & Interpretation, 2-3 points
Research in Music Education (minimum 15 points including transferrable credits)
Emphasized courses:
A&H 5001 Research Methods in Arts Education (online), 3 points
A&H 5002 Assessment Strategies for the Arts (online), 3 points
A&HM 5031 Synthesizing Research in Music Education (online), 3 points
A&HM 6041 Interview Data & Analysis, 3 points
Seminars:(Required)
A&HM 6501 Doctoral Seminar in Music Education, 2 or 3 points (Preliminary Proposal)
A&HM 7501 Dissertation Seminar: Music Education, 2 or 3 points (Advanced Proposal)
Seminars: (Continuing Research Study)
A&HM 6510 Advanced Seminar in Art Education Research, 3 points (Continuing Dissertation Research)
A&HM 6971 Research and Independent Study in Music Education, 1 to 3 points
Out of Program (minimum 15 points)
Suggested Research courses (minimum 3 points):
A&HH 6041 Historical Method
C&T 6011 Introduction to Qualitative Research in Curriculum & Teaching
EDPA 4050 Logic and Design of Research in Educational Policy
ITSF 4092 Qualitative Research
ITSF 5000 Methods of Inquiry: Ethnography and Participant Observation
ITSF 5001 Ethnography and Participant Observation: Fieldwork, Analysis, Reporting
ORLJ 5040 Research Methods in Social Psychology
ORL 5522 Evaluation Methods I
ORL 5524 Instrument Design
ORL 6500 Qualitative Research Methods on Organizations: Design and Data Collection
ORL 6501 Qualitative Research Methods on Organizations: Data Analysis and Reporting
HUD 4120 Methods of Empirical Research
Higher Education courses (2 courses or 5 points required):
ORLD 4827 Fostering Transformative Learning 3 points
ORLD 4050 Introduction to Adult and Continuing Education 3 points
ORLH 5011 College teaching and learning 3 points
ORLH 4040 The American College Student 3 points
ORLD 4051 How Adults Learn 3 points
Sample Additional Elective courses:
A&HF 5590 Voices in Philosophy and Education
C&T 4029 Creativity: Its Nature and Nurture
C&T 4161 The Teacher: Socio-Historical, Cultural Contexts of Teaching
MTSU 4083 Instructional Design of Educational Technology
ORLD 4850 Discussion as a Way of Teaching 1 point
ORLD 4844 Helping Adults Learn 1 point