We prepare students to become the music instructors of tomorrow while providing significant performance, teaching, leadership and research opportunities.
Teaching certification preparation is available through the Bachelor of Music with emphasis in Music Education degree.
For more information, email Traci Hair or call 803-777-4106.
Gail Barnes is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus professor of music education and former director of the USC String Project. She teaches stringed instrument methods and orchestra literature. Her research focuses on community and school orchestra programs and access to music education for under-served youth.
Dr. Lani Hamilton is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of South Carolina, where she also serves as Director of the USC String Project. A former symphony violinist and public-school orchestra teacher, Hamilton brings practical experience to her work with music educators, performers, and developing musicians.
Jay Jacobs teaches classes in the music education department. He is the director of the Carolina Band, and conducts the Symphonic Winds.
Amanda Schlegel is assistant professor of instrumental music education at UofSC. Her research interests surround music perception and cognition as a function of instrumental music teacher/conductor effectiveness, music teacher education, and affective and emotional responses to music.
Wendy Valerio’s research interests include early childhood and elementary music development. She is a frequent presenter at national and international music education professional development conferences. Valerio supervises a variety of early childhood and elementary music practicum experiences for undergraduate music education majors, and she advises dissertations and theses.