Courses

Explore the National Core Arts Standards as a guide to provide quality arts education in your classroom! Go beyond the surface of dance and music to teach your students grade-appropriate theory in this non-intimidating class! Utilizing the NCCAS's resources, videos, and lessons, you will know how to gauge proficiency in the Creating, Performing, Responding processes.


Welcome to a course introducing you to the 'new' field of music and the brain. Learn about the relationship between music and emotion; the different ways music expresses emotion, different ways music can evoke emotion in listeners' brains, and how those relate to music's ability to communicate cross-culturally. The course explores how perception of musical sounds involves complex mental processing, and how implicit learning gives rise to powerful expectations that shape your perception of and your emotional responses to music.