Classes =\= Sense
The system for classes and sign-ups here at Case makes little sense. I've known this. I've come to love and cherish the little malformed monster in what can only be understood as a love of necessity. It needs love... it craves love... and it'll drain it from you forcibly if you don't willingly give it.
And so I do my best to provide what little bits of attention that I can.
It has yet to be easy and, of course, there's another rocky road to the relationship.
As a Music Education B.S. you have to take various classes focused on teaching, specifically, music. Well, what else would you expect?
In addition to various methods courses which prepare you for instrumental and choral instruction, you also have to take one 'general music methods' course. There are currently two of them.
General Music Methods A (MUED 350)
and
General Music Methods B (MUED 351)
350 is focused on teaching general music to people in pre-school up to around the fourth grade. 351 focuses on the seventh grade through adult.
I'm planning on teaching at either the middle school (7+8, sometimes 6) or HIGHER.
The classes never happen in the same semester, so that students who want to can take them both in order to be well prepared for students of any age can. MUED 350 happens during fall, 351 during spring.
Unfortunately though, the teacher that has been teaching 351 since he started teaching here, Dr. Dunn, recently left the university. Currently my advisor does not even know if it will be offered next semester.
This puts me in a bit of a bind. Currently I'm going to be student teaching in Spring 2010, so if I take MUED 351 instead of 350, I NEED to take it this upcoming semester.
Things can never be simple.
I'm trying to debate myself into a corner so that I have to choose while my advisor looks into whether or not it will be taught, and if I can take it independent study next semester. We shall see. Since neither is a prequisite for any other course, though, I may hold off on taking 350 until next fall anyways. My schedule is already extremely full.
We shall see.
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