22 courses with the subject MTR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MTR 100Orientation to Music Therapy1
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An overview of the music therapy field. Areas addressed include educational and training requirements in music therapy; historical underpinnings of music therapy; and an introduction to major orientations to clinical practice. Subject: Music Therapy Department: Music
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 Private instruction for one-half hour weekly. This course concentrates on learning clinical music skills in piano, voice, and guitar and is a requirement for all Music Therapy majors. Course must be repeated until all levels of competency is achieved as assessed in MTR 104, 105, and 106. Additional fee applies. Subject: Music Therapy Department: Music Credits: .5 or 1
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 In this course, students will develop technical and therapeutic music skills in voice, piano, guitar, and percussion relevant to music therapy clinical practice, and focus on the link between musicianship and therapeutic engagement. Instruction on these skills will involve the ability to sing with and without accompaniment (piano, guitar, percussion) with accurate pitch and appropriate emotional expression. This course provides an opportunity for supported development of planned and spontaneous musical expression in order to lay the groundwork for music therapy repertoire development in individual lessons. Additionally, the class will focus on the therapeutic meaning of music to meet the various needs of different clients that students may encounter in clinical work. Subject: Music Therapy Department: Music
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An examination of biopsychosocial medical practices in music therapy, in which music experiences and therapeutic relationships promote physiological and emotional wellbeing. (
MTR 103, MTR 200, MTR 201, Co-requisite: BIOL 202) Subject: Music Therapy Department: Music
MTR 203Psychiatric Pract Mus Therapy
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An examination of psychotherapeutic practices in music therapy, in which music experiences and therapeutic relationships promote mental and emotional wellbeing. (Prerequisites: MTR 103, MTR 200, MTR 201, MTR 202, MTR 300; Co-requisite: PSY 320) Subject: Music Therapy Department: Music Credits: 0 or 3
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 We live in a diverse and multicultural society shaped by events of the past that influence the present moment, and music is a part of culture’s formation and expression. Many of the populations that students in music therapy will work with have cultures that are different from one’s own. The engagement of these individuals in an appropriate manner requires the acquisition of knowledge about the experiences that have shaped a culture and their experiences of discrimination and oppression. Classroom discussions and experiential activities will focus on how these factors influence our current understanding of implicit bias, discrimination, common factors that affect most marginalized groups, and group-specific issues in America, and develop skills in cultural humility and responsiveness. In addition, this course will explore how to apply this knowledge into the clinical music setting in order to reach competency in culturally responsive music therapy practice. Approaches that develop sens Subject: Music Therapy Department: Music
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 This course provides an overview of applications of music technology in the context of clinical music therapy. The fundamental language and concepts of audio technology (analog and digital) will be reviewed and the literature on technology in music therapy will be surveyed. Students will be introduced to computer-based music production and recording,including the basic uses of music sequencing, recording, editing, as well as the basics of MIDI technology including sound modules and controllers. Through creative projects students will explore the application of these technologies to help clients work towards physical and psychological goals. Subject: Music Therapy Department: Music
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 An overview of the physiological, neurological, psychological, developmental and social foundations of music. Students develop an understanding of auditory processing and music perception, music cognition, developmental foundations of music perception and learning, and disorders specifically related to music perception and processing. Research in the Psychology of Music will be surveyed and evaluated. (Co-requisite: PSY 101) Subject: Music Therapy Department: Music