The graduate (master’s level) diploma program can be undertaken as a full‐time, one‐year graduate program of study or on a part‐time basis. The focus of this program is:

• to advance scholarship in Community Music;
• to increase understanding about informal and formal learning practices in music, and the learning theories that address each practice;
• to increase understanding about music as it is practiced outside of formal schooling, settings for which music educators are typically educated to teach; and
• to educate musicians and music educators about engaging community musicians, learning with them about music outside the Western European Art form, music that is a large part of the tradition as found in Faculties of Music.

By the end of this program, graduates will demonstrate a deep and systematic knowledge in planning, administering, teaching, facilitating, enabling and leading a variety of musical ensembles in settings outside formal education. They will demonstrate a critical awareness of current issues in the field of Community Music informed by research at the forefront of the field and be equipped to conduct research informed by a conceptual and methodological competence in scholarly enquiry in the discipline.