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Career Details :: Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts, including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture or design and crafts.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
• Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
• Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
• Acts as adviser to student organizations.
• Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
• Stimulates class discussions.
• Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
• Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.

Related Careers

• Choreographers
  
• Commercial and Industrial Designers
  
• Fashion Designers
  
• Film and Video Editors
  
• Floral Designers
  
• Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
  
• Musicians, Instrumental
  
• Set Designers
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Written Comprehension
• Written Expression
• Oral Comprehension
• Speech Clarity

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Communicating With Other Workers
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Communicating With Persons Outside Organization

Important Skills

• Instructing
  
• Speaking
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Learning Strategies
  
• Writing
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Indoors
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others

Related Majors

Major	Add to XapPack
Accompaniment	[ add ]
Accompanying	[ add ]
Accompanying/Chamber Music	[ add ]
Acting	[ add ]
Acting/Directing	[ add ]
Applied Art	[ add ]
Applied Music	[ add ]
Applied Music/Instrumental	[ add ]
Applied Music/Piano	[ add ]
Applied Music/Voice	[ add ]
Architecture/Art/Design	[ add ]
Art	[ add ]
Art Administration	[ add ]
Art Communication	[ add ]
Art Conservation	[ add ]
Art History	[ add ]
Art History/Appreciation	[ add ]
Art History/Criticism	[ add ]
Art History/Criticism/Conservation	[ add ]
Art History/History	[ add ]
Art History/Studio	[ add ]
Art History/Theory	[ add ]
Art Management	[ add ]
Art Studio	[ add ]
Art Theory/Practice	[ add ]
Art/Architecture	[ add ]
Art/Art History	[ add ]
Art/Business	[ add ]
Art/Communication	[ add ]
Art/Computer Animation	[ add ]
Art/Design	[ add ]
Art/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Art/Graphic Design	[ add ]
Art/Metal	[ add ]
Art/Painting/Printing/Sculpture	[ add ]
Art/Photography	[ add ]
Art/Technology Studies	[ add ]
Art/Video	[ add ]
Arts	[ add ]
Arts Administration	[ add ]
Arts Management	[ add ]
Ballet	[ add ]
Ballet/Modern Dance	[ add ]
Bassoon	[ add ]
Brass	[ add ]
Cello	[ add ]
Ceramic Art	[ add ]
Ceramics	[ add ]
Ceramics/Ceramic Sculpture	[ add ]
Ceramics/Glass	[ add ]
Children's Theatre	[ add ]
Choral Conducting	[ add ]
Choral Music	[ add ]
Church Music	[ add ]
Cinema	[ add ]
Cinema Studies	[ add ]
Cinema Study	[ add ]
Cinema-Television	[ add ]
Cinema/Media Studies	[ add ]
Cinema/Photography	[ add ]
Cinema/Television	[ add ]
Cinema/Theatre	[ add ]
Cinematography	[ add ]
Clarinet	[ add ]
Classical Guitar	[ add ]
Classics/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Commercial Music	[ add ]
Communication Studies/Theatre	[ add ]
Communication/Film/Video	[ add ]
Communication/Theatre	[ add ]
Communication/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Communications/Theatre	[ add ]
Composition	[ add ]
Composition/Film Scoring	[ add ]
Composition/Theory	[ add ]
Conducting	[ add ]
Contemporary Improvisation	[ add ]
Contemporary Writing/Production	[ add ]
Costume Design	[ add ]
Costume Technology	[ add ]
Crafts	[ add ]
Creative Photography	[ add ]
Creative/Visual Arts	[ add ]
Dance	[ add ]
Dance Accompanying	[ add ]
Dance Choreography/Performance	[ add ]
Dance Pedagogy	[ add ]
Dance Performance	[ add ]
Dance Studies	[ add ]
Dance/Theatre	[ add ]
Design/Technical Theatre	[ add ]
Digital Art/Design	[ add ]
Digital Arts/Multimedia Design	[ add ]
Directing	[ add ]
Double Bass	[ add ]
Drama	[ add ]
Drama/Dance	[ add ]
Drama/Design	[ add ]
Drama/Production	[ add ]
Drama/Speech Communication	[ add ]
Drama/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Drama/Theatre/Dance	[ add ]
Dramatic Arts	[ add ]
Dramatic Arts/Drama	[ add ]
Dramatic Arts/Theatre	[ add ]
Dramatic Literature/Theatre/History/Cinema	[ add ]
Dramatic Writing	[ add ]
Dramatics/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Dramaturgy/Criticism	[ add ]
Drawing	[ add ]
Early Music	[ add ]
Educational Theatre	[ add ]
Electronic Arts	[ add ]
Electronic Integrated Arts	[ add ]
English Dramatic Literature/Theatre	[ add ]
English/Drama/Speech	[ add ]
English/Film Studies	[ add ]
Ethnomusicology	[ add ]
Euphonium	[ add ]
Fiber Arts	[ add ]
Film	[ add ]
Film Arts	[ add ]
Film Production	[ add ]
Film Scoring	[ add ]
Film Studies	[ add ]
Film Study	[ add ]
Film Writing	[ add ]
Film/Art	[ add ]
Film/Cinema Studies	[ add ]
Film/Drama	[ add ]
Film/Photography	[ add ]
Film/Photography/Visual Arts	[ add ]
Film/Television	[ add ]
Film/Video	[ add ]
Film/Video Making/Cinematography/Production	[ add ]
Film/Video Production	[ add ]
Film/Video/Computer Animation	[ add ]
Film/Video/Performance	[ add ]
Fine Art	[ add ]
Fine Arts	[ add ]
Fine Arts Administration	[ add ]
Fine Arts Ministry	[ add ]
Fine Arts Photography	[ add ]
Fine Arts Studio	[ add ]
Fine Arts/Crafts	[ add ]
Fine Arts/Studio Arts	[ add ]
Fine Arts/Technology	[ add ]
Fine/Applied Arts	[ add ]
Fine/Performing Arts	[ add ]
Fine/Studio Arts	[ add ]
Flute	[ add ]
French Horn	[ add ]
General Fine Arts	[ add ]
General Music	[ add ]
Graphic Design/Photography	[ add ]
Graphics/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Guitar	[ add ]
Harp	[ add ]
Harpsichord	[ add ]
Historical Decorative Arts	[ add ]
Historical Performance	[ add ]
History of Art	[ add ]
History of Art/Archaeology	[ add ]
History of Art/Architecture	[ add ]
History of Decorative Arts	[ add ]
Humanities/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Illustration/Visual Essay	[ add ]
Instrumental Music	[ add ]
Instrumental Performance	[ add ]
Instruments	[ add ]
Interactive Design	[ add ]
Interdisciplinary Arts	[ add ]
International Letters/Visual Arts	[ add ]
Jazz	[ add ]
Jazz Composition	[ add ]
Jazz Performance	[ add ]
Jazz Studies	[ add ]
Jazz Studies/Contemporary Media	[ add ]
Jazz/Commercial Music	[ add ]
Jewelry/Metalsmithing	[ add ]
Keyboard Instruments	[ add ]
Keyboard/Orchestral Instruments	[ add ]
Lighting Design	[ add ]
Management of Musical Enterprises	[ add ]
Media Arts/Theatre	[ add ]
Metalcrafts/Jewelry	[ add ]
Metals/Jewelry	[ add ]
Metalsmithing	[ add ]
Modern Dance	[ add ]
Motion Picture Producing	[ add ]
Multimedia	[ add ]
Music	[ add ]
Music Administration	[ add ]
Music Business	[ add ]
Music Business Studies	[ add ]
Music Business/Management	[ add ]
Music Composition	[ add ]
Music Education/General/Choral	[ add ]
Music History	[ add ]
Music History/Appreciation	[ add ]
Music History/Literature	[ add ]
Music History/Theory	[ add ]
Music Industry	[ add ]
Music Management	[ add ]
Music Marketing	[ add ]
Music Merchandising	[ add ]
Music Performance	[ add ]
Music Performance/Pedagogy	[ add ]
Music Performance/Voice/Piano/Organ	[ add ]
Music Synthesis	[ add ]
Music Technology	[ add ]
Music Theatre	[ add ]
Music Theory	[ add ]
Music Theory/Composition	[ add ]
Music Theory/History	[ add ]
Music/Applied Music Education	[ add ]
Music/Business	[ add ]
Music/Elective Studies in Business	[ add ]
Music/Instrumental	[ add ]
Music/Keyboard	[ add ]
Music/Language	[ add ]
Music/Sound Recording	[ add ]
Music/Technology	[ add ]
Music/Theatre	[ add ]
Music/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Music/Voice	[ add ]
Musical Arts	[ add ]
Musical Instruments	[ add ]
Musical Studies	[ add ]
Musical Theatre	[ add ]
Musicology	[ add ]
Oboe	[ add ]
Opera	[ add ]
Orchestral Conducting	[ add ]
Orchestral Music	[ add ]
Orchestral Performance	[ add ]
Orchestral/Band Instruments	[ add ]
Organ	[ add ]
Organ Performance	[ add ]
Painting	[ add ]
Painting/Drawing	[ add ]
Percussion	[ add ]
Performance	[ add ]
Performance Art Theatre	[ add ]
Performance/Music Education	[ add ]
Performing Arts/Dance	[ add ]
Performing Arts/Musical Theatre Performance	[ add ]
Photography	[ add ]
Photography/Graphic Arts	[ add ]
Photography/Related Media	[ add ]
Photojournalism	[ add ]
Piano	[ add ]
Piano Accompanying	[ add ]
Piano Pedagogy/Performance	[ add ]
Piano Performance	[ add ]
Pre-counseling	[ add ]
Printing Technology	[ add ]
Printmaking	[ add ]
Professional Music	[ add ]
Public Arts Studies	[ add ]
Radio/Television/Film	[ add ]
Radio/Video/Photo	[ add ]
Recorder	[ add ]
Saxophone	[ add ]
Scene Design	[ add ]
Scenography	[ add ]
Screen Studies	[ add ]
Screenwriting/Film Studies	[ add ]
Sculpture	[ add ]
Sculpture/New Genres	[ add ]
Songwriting	[ add ]
Speech Communication/Dramatic Arts	[ add ]
Speech Communication/Theatre	[ add ]
Speech Communication/Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Speech/Drama	[ add ]
Speech/Dramatic Art	[ add ]
Speech/Dramatic Arts	[ add ]
Speech/Theatre	[ add ]
Stage Technology	[ add ]
String Instruments	[ add ]
Strings	[ add ]
Studio Art	[ add ]
Studio Arts	[ add ]
Studio Fine Arts	[ add ]
Suzuki Pedagogy	[ add ]
Technical Theatre	[ add ]
Television/Film	[ add ]
Television/Film Production	[ add ]
Television/Film/New Media Production	[ add ]
Textile/Surface Design	[ add ]
Textiles	[ add ]
Textiles/Design	[ add ]
Theatre	[ add ]
Theatre Arts	[ add ]
Theatre Arts Management	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Dance	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Drama	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/English	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/History/Literature	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Speech	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Technical Theatre	[ add ]
Theatre Arts/Theory/Performance	[ add ]
Theatre Design/Technology	[ add ]
Theatre for Youth	[ add ]
Theatre Management	[ add ]
Theatre Performance	[ add ]
Theatre Production	[ add ]
Theatre Studies	[ add ]
Theatre Technology	[ add ]
Theatre/Acting	[ add ]
Theatre/Communication	[ add ]
Theatre/Communication Arts	[ add ]
Theatre/Dance	[ add ]
Theatre/Dance/Film	[ add ]
Theatre/Design	[ add ]
Theatre/Drama	[ add ]
Theatre/Dramatics	[ add ]
Theatre/English	[ add ]
Theatre/Film	[ add ]
Theatre/Fine Arts	[ add ]
Theatre/Music	[ add ]
Theatre/Speech	[ add ]
Theatre/Stage Management	[ add ]
Theatre/Technical Direction	[ add ]
Theatre/Television	[ add ]
Theatrical Production Arts	[ add ]
Theoretical Studies	[ add ]
Theory	[ add ]
Theory/Composition	[ add ]
Traditional Composition	[ add ]
Trombone	[ add ]
Trumpet	[ add ]
Tuba	[ add ]
Video	[ add ]
Viola	[ add ]
Violin	[ add ]
Visual Arts History	[ add ]
Visual Arts Studio	[ add ]
Visual Arts/Management	[ add ]
Vocal Music	[ add ]
Vocal Performance	[ add ]
Voice	[ add ]
Voice Performance	[ add ]
Weaving	[ add ]
Weaving/Textile Design	[ add ]
Wind Instruments	[ add ]
Woodwind	[ add ]
Woodwinds	[ add ]

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