Curriculum
Each music department has their own curriculum, however, the majority of subjects can be found in all study programmes. These subjects are presented in the following table.
Subject field | Fields | Obligatory | Optional |
Artistic subjects | Piano or Violin, Voice, Singing, Choir, Performance, Improvisation, Instrumental group play | X |
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Choir, Orchestra, Chamber Music, Piano for Non-pianists, Guitar or Organ, Multimedia. The number of optional subjects depends on the resources (financial and staff) of every school. |
| X | |
Music theory and history | Solfeggio, Counterpoint, Harmony, Music-forms analysis, Music of the 20th. century, History of World Music, History of Czech Music, Music Sociology, Music Aesthetic, Ethnomusicology, Multimedia, Music and computers | X |
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Music Therapy |
| X | |
Pedagogical subjects | Music Psychology and Diagnostics, Pedagogy with Methodology, Methodology of Music Teaching, Special Music Methodology, Teaching Practice | X
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Dance, Creative Music Games |
| X |
All students have the common basics – Pedagogy, Psychology, 1-2 foreign languages and Sociology. The following graph presents the relationships (the credits) between the particular fields at the Faculty of Pedagogy in the University of West Bohemia. The Music teacher training Master programmes at the others Faculties of Education differ from the one in Pilsen by approximately 20 per cent.
