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The General Education Challenge to Professional Degrees in Music.

Arts Education Policy Review,  March, 2001  by DEGRAFFENREID, GEORGE M.

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A recent report to faculty from the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) included a policy alert (NASM 2000) regarding a report that Florida universities were considering an increase in their general education requirements from the current thirty-six units to fifty-one units. Such an increase was viewed as potentially damaging to music degree programs in Florida and was said to warrant a watchful eye.

The NASM alert may be well founded, if experiences in universities with large general education requirements are an indication. Why would Florida universities be ...

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