Music, PhD

The PhD in Music, with fields in Music Therapy and Community Music, can be completed either through full or part-time study. Its interdisciplinary approach based on music, health, community, and culture, with a focus on critical applications and interventions, make the program unique, not only in Canada, but internationally. The program will help to serve the growing demand for advanced research skills in community music, music education, and music therapy fields. The curriculum is based on a Doctoral Action Plan, Problem-Based Learning, Peer Learning, and various Doctoral Special Seminar Topics (DSST). The goal of the PhD in Music is to develop researchers and practitioners with sufficient theoretical, technical, methodological, professional, and applied clinical research knowledge to assure scientific rigour and grounded practice in one of the two fields.