This course is designed as an introduction to the field of music education. It will provide students with an overview of the multifaceted nature of music teaching and learning, and serve as a foundation for the construction of your own beliefs and practices as a teacher and give you a framework to work effectively in diverse settings. This course will include: field experiences, readings, presentations, instructional technologies as well as historical, psychological, and philosophical foundations. Though this class is the first required MUED course of the music education major, major-level status in the School of Music is not required to enroll.