音乐硕士研究生课程有四个重点领域：音乐教育/老师带队，指挥/老师带队，指挥和教学法。这些提供了以下方面的持续发展：个人学生将丰富他们的个人生活，使他们能够保存和扩展文化和多样的遗产，以及在组织，解释，评估，交流和传播知识方面的专业和学术能力。学科。音乐教育/教师领导者和指挥/教师领导者的集中度将进一步使教师/从业者能够满足认证更新的要求，并能对肯塔基州联邦政府的要求进行排名变更。教育学集中的毕业生将通过美国音乐教师全国协会（MTNA）达到获得国家认证的要求。所有寻求学位的学生都必须在研究生入学前12小时（
The Master of Music graduate program has four areas of concentration: Music Education/Teacher Leader, Conducting/Teacher Leader, Conducting, and Pedagogy. These provide continued development of: individual students which will result in enrichment of their personal lives and will enable them to preserve and extend cultural and diverse heritages, and professional and scholarly competence in organization, interpretation, evaluation, communication, and dissemination of knowledge in the discipline. The Music Education/Teacher Leader and Conducting/Teacher Leader concentrations would further enable the teacher/practitioner to meet certification renewal requirements and rank changes mandated by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Graduates in the Pedagogy concentration would meet requirements for national certification through the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). All degree seeking students must submit a planned program of study (curriculum contract) to the Graduate School prior to enrollment in coursework beyond 12 hours (inclusive of transfer credit). In compliance with Graduate School policy, the degree program is to be developed in consultation with the approved advisor assigned at the time of admission to the program.