Jenni: Getting a Masters in Music Therapy
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I'm in the music therapy department and I'm doing my Masters plus equivalency degree and that's perfect for people like me who came in without a degree in music therapy. It not only gave me the equivalent of the aspect, you know, which kind of fulfills those undergrad classes that you would have taken. Um But it was also paired with the master's program, so while you're taking those kind of prerequisite classes, you're also gaining this additional knowledge that, you know, it's not just useful to make you a better clinician. But I think when it comes to applying to jobs it makes you a lot more competitive. Music therapy for me is like a dream career. It combines my passions pretty much. So I went to school for psychology and I was kind of interested in maybe doing like an M. F. T. Becoming a counselor. Um But at the same time I always loved music and that was something that I wanted to be part of my career, but I also didn't want to be a performer. Um and so this was like a marriage of my two passions. I'm able to work with my clients using music, music interventions, um to work with them towards their goals, whatever that might be. The professors are also really organized so they give you a syllabus, they lay out what assignments you're going to have throughout the semester. Um, Everything is communicated really well, so you're not left kind of guessing what's going to happen and you can plan ahead if you're a planner like me. For the most part, all the classes you take or within the Conservatory area on campus, which is really nice. It's a lot of pretty buildings, a lot of brick and green and trees. People call it like a mini ivy league, which is definitely true. It's very pretty. A lot of the classes we take our in a building called Buck, the classes look different depending on what you're taking. So there's, you know, your more typical lecture kind of classes and then there's ones that are more hands on, too. And then aside from that, we also have fieldwork and that's something that happens pretty much throughout the whole semester. And it's once or twice a week you go out and you actually get to work with clients. So this isn't role playing where it's actually going out into the field. We have a lot of different locations. Some students work at hospitals, some do their fieldwork at schools, a lot of different options and they make sure to give you a different setting every semester. So you get a variety of experience and that's great because throughout all that, you're working on your music skills, you're working on your leadership, your therapeutic skills, all of that. Which is going to set you up to have a really smooth transition into your professional life.
