Spring 2027

Principles of Music Education

Principles of music education covering philosophy, history, current practices, and curricular trends within diverse communities.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jesse Rathgeber

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.45 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.72 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain why music and music education are important, valuable, and meaningful.

  • Demonstrate understandings of and dispositions toward music learning and teaching that are mindful, inclusive, respectful, empathic, relevant, and responsive to human difference.

  • Develop and demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, and honor for human differences, including gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, class, language, religion, and ability.

  • Demonstrate developing awareness of the connection between how you think about music learning and teaching and how those beliefs play out in all decisions that you make regarding your music classroom.

  • Develop awareness of your own unique musical experiences and personality traits.

  • Identify traits of successful music educators and the professional characteristics, expectations, sensitivity, and interpersonal skills required of music educators.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Music: Education BM and sophomore standing

  • Declared in Music: Education BM and sophomore standing
CURRIC/MUSIC 300 used by

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  • Declared in Music: Education BM and sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.45 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.72 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JESSE RATHGEBER is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.45 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.72 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Philosophy, history, and current practices of music education.
  • Music education in and out of schools within diverse, pluralistic communities.

Skills

  • Explain the importance and value of music education.
  • Demonstrate inclusive and responsive dispositions toward music learning and teaching.
  • Develop awareness and sensitivity for diverse human differences.
  • Identify professional traits and interpersonal skills of successful music educators.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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CURRIC/MUSIC 300 · Spring 2027

Principles of Music Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
CURRIC/MUSIC 300 · Spring 2027

Principles of Music Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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