EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
Research Assistantships
Depending on available funding, the Center offers
research assistantships, student hourly positions, and work-study jobs support
to qualified graduate students.
Lab Placements
The Center serves as a state-of-the-art teaching
lab for graduate and undergraduate music therapy students during their training
in Neurologic Music Therapy. The Center also offers its lab resources to
support graduate thesis and dissertation research in music therapy and other
departments. Placements to graduate students as part of the lab rotations in
the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Neuroscience Program and Biomedical
Engineering Program are also available.
Robert F. Unkefer
Undergraduate Research Scholarships
The Center has created, through funding from the
CCHE - Center of Excellence Grant, a program of 6
research scholarships for outstanding undergraduate music therapy students (2
recipients each from Sophomore, Junior, and Senior
Class levels). The program is named after one of the pioneers of modern music
therapy in the U.S.
The scholarship students participate in research projects at the Center and
carry out one project per year independently under supervision from Center
staff. As an innovative learning community, they also meet weekly as a group
with their mentor in a seminar to engage in advanced studies of clinical and
research issues in music therapy. Students have to demonstrate excellence in
musicianship, academic work, and commitment to music therapy as evidenced by
auditions, GPA, success in practicum work, and a personal interview. The
scholarship group has participated in the 1999 Undergraduate Research Fair at Colorado State University,
and has presented a research project at the 1999 Midwest Regional Conference of
the American Music Therapy Association.
Graduate
Studies in Neurologic Music Therapy
Starting in the Fall of
2001, the music therapy program at Colorado
State University
will offer a new curriculum concentration within its Master's Degree in Music
with a special emphasis on Neurologic Music Therapy. This intensive program may
be completed in two regular academic semesters (i.e. one Fall
and one Spring semester) and possibly an additional summer semester. The degree
is designed to make the graduate degree more feasible for the working clinician
or other individuals interested in obtaining an advanced degree in a reasonable
amount of time. The program will be the only degree in existence that provides
academic training for an evidence-based, scientific model in music therapy.
Coursework for this degree can be completed by attending classes full-time on
the CSU campus for two consecutive semesters. If needed, parts of the master's
thesis may then be completed in an additional semester, either on the CSU
campus, or at an off-campus location that is more convenient for the student.
Candidates for the program need to have a previous undergraduate degree in
music therapy or a completed undergraduate equivalency, and one course each in
undergraduate statistics and anatomy/ physiology. Additional information can be
obtained by contacting Dr. Michael Thaut
at 970/491-7384 or michael.thaut@colostate.edu.
970/ 491-3178
[michael.thaut@colostate.edu]