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The Independent Field Study is the culmination of applied academic material gained through the graduate music education coursework. The Field Study, usually completed at the end of the degree program, will be a scholarly document dealing with current issues in music education. It may be a research project, a curriculum development project, a lecture-recital or any other type of project concerned with current music education issues. The pre-requisite: Music Bibliography and Research in Music Education courses ensure that the student has the content knowledge and skills needed to complete original research or a research informed project in their field/area of interest. The purpose of the study is to allow the graduate student to demonstrate their working knowledge of research, writing, teaching, psychology, and philosophy within the field of music education in a scholarly document. The music education instructor of the student’s choosing chairs the study.