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 Music Education at Northeastern State University The undergraduate music education program at Northeastern State University is comprehensive and prepares students to enter the music education profession with the skills and knowledge to teach successfully. Together with NSU’s College of Education which is NCATE accredited and is also the largest in the state of Oklahoma, NSU’s music education program offers a sequenced series of courses and preservice public and laboratory school teaching experiences. Students who successfully complete the music education program at NSU meet the requirements to enter the first year of teaching music in grades K–12. The NSU music education curriculum is approved by NASM, the National Association of Schools of Music. Areas
of Emphasis and Course Sequence
Entrance
and Scholarship Audition Information
Please
contact the appropriate person from the list below.
 Course Websites MUS
3732,
Elementary Music Methods
MUS
3742,
Secondary Music Methods
MUS
3832,
Music in the Elementary Classroom
Student
Teaching Information
About
the Faculty
Tracy
Hunsaker
is the NSU music education specialist. Dr. Hunsaker is an Orff
Schulwerk
certified instructor. She completed Levels I and II at the
University
of Florida under Jim Solomon and Mary Helen Solomon. She
completed
Level III at SMU in Dallas under Rick Layton. Dr. Hunsaker
received
her Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Utah
State University
(USU) in instrumental and choral music education, specializing in both
flute and voice. While at USU, Dr. Hunsaker was active in
multiple
instrumental and choral ensembles. She also performed as soloist
with
those ensembles, was the drum major of the marching band, and
participated in musical theater and opera productions. Her senior
year
she received the Outstanding Senior Award for the department of music
at USU.
Ms.
Hunsaker taught middle-school band and sixth-grade music for nine years
at Mt. Logan Middle School in Logan, Utah. During that time she
also
received her Master of Education with choral emphasis from USU.
For
two years she ran an after-school Opera for Children Club, in which
students wrote and performed their own operas. She was actively
involved in the Bridgerland Honor Music Clinic for seventh- to
ninth-grade students in band, choir, and orchestra, serving as
president of the clinic for the 2000-2001 year. Ms. Hunsaker
received
her Ph.D. in Music Education from the University
of Florida
(UF). While at UF she taught courses in elementary music and was
the
head graduate assistant to the choirs. She received the Wilmott
Prize
for Excellence in Music Education at UF in 2003.
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