Certificates

Certificates within the Faculty of Music

Certificates are a sequence of Music courses within specified areas outside of existing Music Programs and Specializations. Completion of the prescribed courses within one or more areas is acknowledged on the transcript.  Certificates are offered in conjunction with a degree. Currently there are Certificates offered in Health Applications in Music, Music Technology, Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology and Piano Pedagogy. The course requirements for each of the Certificates are listed below. Courses completed as part of the Music Elective requirement can be counted towards Certificate requirements. In some cases, additional courses beyond the Music Elective requirement must be fulfilled to complete Certificate requirements.

Students who may have completed the requirements of a Certificate must notify the Registrar’s Office by submitting the Declaration of Completion of a Certificate form. This must be done after the last date to drop courses in the winter term of their final year of study, and before the end of term. Successful completion of the Certificate(s) will result in an annotation on the academic transcript.

Certificate Requirements

Certificate Requirements

Students must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Music or the Bachelor of Music in Performance.

(a) Health Applications in Music (1.5 FCE)
SMU400H1 Introduction to Music in Healthcare

Two of:

  • SMU200H1 Healthy Practices for Healthy Musicians
  • SMU401H1 Music Psychology
  • SMU402H1 Introduction to Music Therapy
  • SMU405H1 Health and Music Performance
  • PMU412H1 Introduction to Performance Techniques for Palliative Care
  • Other related courses may be approved

(b) Music Technology (1.5 FCE)
DMU111H1 Computer Applications in Music

Two of:

  • CMU319H1 Electroacoustic Music I
  • CMU320H1 Electroacoustic Music II
  • DMU304H1 Video Documentation
  • DMU305H1 Concert Video Production
  • DMU313H1 Introduction to Music Recording
  • DMU330H1 Live Coding: Digital Audio in Real Time
  • DMU406H1 Max/MSP 
  • DMU411H1 Interactive Music and Sound – Video Games
  • EMU371H1 Multimodal Approaches to Music Teaching and Learning
  • Other related courses may be approved

(c) Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology with Ensemble Option (1.5 FCE)
HMU345H1 Global Popular Musics

One of:

  • Any HMU/TMU 300–level elective in Popular Music Studies - selected from list below
  • Any HMU 300-level elective in Ethnomusicology - selected from list below
  • HMU433H1 Topics in Ethnomusicology: Introduction
  • HMU435H1 Topics in Ethnomusicology: Current Issues
  • Other related courses may be approved

One of:


The following list of courses will fulfill the HMU/TMU 300-level elective in Popular Music Studies or Ethnomusicology:

 

(d) Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology (1.5 FCE)
HMU345H1 Global Popular Musics

Two of:

  • Any HMU/TMU 300-level elective in Popular Music Studies - selected from list below
  • Any HMU 300–level elective in Ethnomusicology - selected from list below
  • HMU433H1 Topics in Ethnomusicology: Introduction
  • HMU435H1 Topics in Ethnomusicology: Current Issues
  • Other related courses may be approved


The following list of courses will fulfill the HMU/TMU 300-level elective in Popular Music Studies or Ethnomusicology:

 

(e) Piano Pedagogy (1.5 FCE)

This certificate is available only to students with Piano as their major instrument and who intend to pursue applied lessons in all four years of study. 

  • PMU261H1 Introduction to Piano Teaching Methods (0.33 credit)
  • PMU262H1 Piano Teaching Methods Practicum (0.33 credit)

A minimum of 0.83 credits from:

  • EMU245H1 Psychological Foundations of Music Education (0.5 credit)
  • EMU355Y1 Accompanying (0.33 credit)
  • EMU370Y1 Principles and Practice of Music Education for Children I (0.67 credit)
  • EMU372Y1 Movement and Music: Dalcroze Eurhythmics (0.33 credit)
  • EMU461H1 Music Education in Cultural Perspective (0.5 credit)
  • EMU480H1 Child and Adolescent Development in Music Education (0.5 credit)
  • PMU376Y1 Piano Literature (0.33 credit)
  • PMU476Y1 Piano Literature II (0.33 credit)
  • PMU350Y1 Song Interpretation (0.33 credit)
  • SMU200H1 Healthy Practices for Healthy Musicians (0.5 credit)
  • SMU405H1 Health and Music Performance (0.5 credit)

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