Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy

University of Arizona

Music has the power to transform lives and communities. A degree in music therapy will provide you with everything you need--specialized music skills, theoretical foundations, and clinical experience--to become a board-certified music therapist. Learn to harness the medium of music to make a tangible impact on the world around you while collaborating with a diverse community of musicians and health professionals. Students are not only prepared to work across the lifespan, from birth to death, and in a variety of settings, including schools, hospitals, prisons, and more, but are also equipped with business skills and ethical decision-making in order to thrive in the presence of real life challenges.LEARNING OUTCOMESIn the areas of voice, guitar, keyboard, and percussion, students will create musical performances, arrangements, and compositions that employ transposition, harmonization, and physical movement.Drawing on appropriate terminology from the fields of medicine and education, students will identify and describe the characteristics of typical and atypical human development.Develop treatment plans consistent with accepted methods of major therapeutic approaches, doing so in the context of best practices that govern the therapist-client relationship in the field of Music Therapy.Identify and explain the purposes of the accepted criteria for assessing clients or patients, treating them, evaluating progress, and terminating treatment for the populations specified in the standards of Clinical Practice for Music Therapy.Using statistics and field-specific methodologies, students will evaluate the challenges involved in solving a contemporary problem in or related to the field of music therapy, and design and execute ethical projects that confront these challenges.