Mención en Música

Program Overview

The Mención en Educación Musical, part of the primary education teaching degree, enhances students' musical creativity and vocal expression. Focused on latest technologies and methodologies, it equips students to teach musical concepts effectively in primary education. Upon completion, students receive a Personal Academic Certificate from Universidad Europea de Madrid, qualifying them for roles as music teachers in schools.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Mención en Educación Musical is a qualifying degree that is part of the primary education teaching degree and can also be taken independently. It studies the fundamentals of listening and musical expression and acquires tools to enhance musical creativity and vocal expression.

Objectives:

• Study with the latest technologies and educational methodologies.
• Learn to work with ICT in the classroom.
• Master the three essential skills that the teaching of music in primary education encompasses: interpretation, creation, and listening.
• Acquire the resources and strategies necessary to teach musical concepts related to sound, rhythm, melody, harmony, and musical forms in the classroom.
• Learn to develop content such as body percussion, educational dance, or the creation of choreographies for meaningful learning.

Outline:

Program Content:

• The Mención en Educación Musical prepares students to understand the fundamentals of listening and musical expression with the latest methodological innovations and the incorporation of ICT into the music area.
• Upon completion of this program and passing the 5 subjects of the mention, students will receive the Personal Academic Certificate (CAP) issued by the Universidad Europea de Madrid.
This certificate is valid to obtain the qualification of the mention.

Structure:

• Module 1.
• Listening and Musical Language: This subject will allow students to acquire the necessary and fundamental resources and strategies to teach basic musical concepts related to sound, rhythm, melody, harmony, and musical forms in the classroom.
In this way, learning is focused on the development of three essential skills that must be developed in the teaching and learning of music in the Music Education area of the Primary Education stage: interpretation, creation, and listening.
• Module 2.
• Body Expression, Rhythm, and Dance: The objective of the subject of Body Expression, Rhythm, and Dance is to provide students with the knowledge and resources necessary to offer a playful and creative music and movement education, making the most of the possibilities offered by the body as an essential element in learning.
It is a subject framed in the mention of Music Education in which content such as learning rhythm and structure, body percussion, traditional dances, educational dance, or the creation of simple choreographies will be developed, for a meaningful and creative learning of music and dance in the school.
• Module 3.
• Technological Resources Applied to Music Education: The subject of Technological Resources for Music Education offers the student a global vision of all the digital tools that we have today, that are at their disposal and to assess the pedagogical possibilities that they contribute in their implementation within the Music classroom of Primary Education.
In this subject, a learning of the basic concepts that have to do with the development of technological innovation at a musical level is carried out, addressing the most useful digital tools and how to use them in order to generate situations that promote the meaningful learning of students in the Primary Education stage.
• Module 4.
• Musical, Vocal, and Instrumental Expression: The subject Musical, Vocal, and Instrumental Expression aims to learn the knowledge and skills necessary to know the possibilities and applicability of instrumental and vocal content in the Primary Education classroom.
To do this, it contextualizes how musical, vocal, and instrumental expression has been addressed throughout history, as well as essential issues related to the applicability of these elements with students in the Primary stage, from the Music area.
• Module 5.
• Project-Based Learning Applied to Music Education: The subject Project-Based Learning Applied to Music Education seeks as its fundamental objective that students know in detail the methodological issues and principles of this way of proceeding in the teaching-learning process, as an active methodology, where the student will be the main protagonist of it.
In this way, you will learn how to implement this methodology in the Music classroom, in relation to a search for global, integral and competency-based learning in the development of students between the ages of 6 and 12, putting musical aspects into practice in a experiential and cooperative way with their peers, giving true importance to the process itself, beyond the final product.

Course Schedule:

• The Mención en Educación Musical was implemented in 2020.

Teaching:

• Methodology: The online methodology of the Universidad Europea allows students to adapt their training to their circumstances.
• Experiential: Learning based on continuous practice and real cases in simulated environments that will prepare students to face the challenges of the professional world.
• Constant Communication: With the latest information technologies, students will be in direct contact with the university, their teachers, and their classmates.
• Continuous Support: Teachers and tutors will answer students' questions and accompany them throughout all stages of learning.

Careers:

• With this Mención en Educación Musical online, students can qualify to work as music teachers in the 6 to 12-year-old educational stage.
• Students can work in:
• Public schools, after passing the opposition
• Private or subsidized schools

Other:

• Certificate Academic Professional (CAP): After completing their studies, the Universidad Europea will issue an official certificate with which students can obtain the qualification in the mention they have taken.
• Opposition Places: In the last opposition call, more than 1000 places were called for the Music Education specialty.
• In-person Exams: Students can take their exams at any of the university's locations: Madrid, Valencia, Canary Islands, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, and A Coruña.
• Quality You Deserve:
• 5 QS Stars: The Universidad Europea has obtained the highest score in the QS Stars Rating System, the ranking that evaluates the quality and competitiveness of higher education institutions worldwide.
• 25 Years of Experience: Founded in 1995, the Universidad Europea has a prestigious history of over 25 years.
• 16,000 Students: The Universidad Europea is the largest private university in Spain by number of students.
• 12,000 Internship Agreements: The university has internship agreements with more than 12,000 private, subsidized, and public centers throughout Spain.
• Discover Our Virtual Campus: The online learning platform where students can study from any device.
• The Universidad Europea is a leader in innovation and quality education.

• Flexible and Tailored to Your Needs: The online methodology of the Universidad Europea allows students to adapt their training to their circumstances.
• Experiential: Learning based on continuous practice and real cases in simulated environments that will prepare students to face the challenges of the professional world.
• Constant Communication: With the latest information technologies, students will be in direct contact with the university, their teachers, and their classmates.
• Continuous Support: Teachers and tutors will answer students' questions and accompany them throughout all stages of learning.
• Our Educational Model: The Universidad Europea is committed to learning that prepares students for the needs of the professional world.
Thanks to its methodology, students can acquire the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies that facilitate maximum employability in a global world.
• Experiential Learning: Students learn by doing; without action, there is no learning.
Students will put the knowledge they have learned into practice through the virtual campus and the online tools available to them.
• Meaningful Learning: The teacher relates knowledge, skills, and previous experiences with the interests, expectations, and cognitive characteristics of the students.
• Collaborative Learning: Students experience the feeling of "learning together" as they are motivated to achieve their own learning and to increase the achievements of others, developing a social and academic learning experience.
• Professional Learning: The teacher acts as a guide and guide of learning towards a professional application.
• Constructive and Discovery Learning: Students investigate and explore to access concepts.
This allows them to build cognitive structures based on the comparison, relationship, and reordering of new concepts and those they already had.
• Autonomous Learning: The teacher encourages students to learn on their own, developing self-learning.
The student is conceived as an active and cooperative agent, a protagonist in the construction of their own learning.
• Individualized Learning: The teacher attends to diversity and the different learning styles of students, adjusting training activities to the needs of students.
• Creative Learning: The development of creativity and the manifestation of one's own initiative make knowledge perceived as something open, unfinished, which can always be completed, redefined, and understood from other points of view.