Music Therapy
Music Therapy
Hands-on Learning, Access to Charlotte’s Vibrant Healthcare Community
A Music Therapy degree from Queens allows you to combine your passion for music with your drive to help others, giving you the opportunity to support some of our most vulnerable populations during times of great need. Music therapy uses music to address the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural needs of individuals and groups in therapy.
In our program, students benefit from 1:1 instruction, a hands-on learning environment, and access to Charlotte’s vibrant healthcare community, which offers ample opportunity for internships and future employment. You will leave ready to turn your passion into profound and meaningful impact.
Meet Shannon O’Hara ’20
“The Music Therapy program at Queens set me up for success! Having 8 semesters of hands-on practicum experience allowed me to apply the theories I was learning in class with a wide variety of clients in different settings. I developed important clinical skills, and those skills helped me land both my top-choice internship and my dream job in a pediatric hospital after graduation. Queens’ focus on critical thinking, research, and ethics also built a strong foundation for pursuing a master’s degree in music therapy.”
Program Highlights
- As a Music Therapy major at Queens, you will work to advance your skills on a primary instrument while becoming proficient in piano, voice, guitar, and percussion.
- Your degree requires four years of full-time coursework, followed by a 6-month professional internship.
- Your clinical training will begin during your first semester, and you’ll receive 1:1 instruction in a hands-on learning environment.
- After graduation, you will be eligible to take the national board certification exam and embark on your new career.
- The Queens Music Therapy Program was established in 1977 and is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) and the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA).
Your Degree in Action
A degree in music therapy from Queens positions you for competitive jobs across the United States and around the world. Music therapists work in hospitals, schools, nursing homes, cancer centers, psychiatric facilities, and in private practice. Many of our alumni remain in the Charlotte area working at organizations such as:
- Mercy Hospital
- Hopeway: Residential Mental Health Facility
- Piedmont Music Therapy
- Charlotte Music Therapy
- Creative Connections Music Therapy
- Voices Together
Other popular destinations for Music Therapy graduates include:
- Dayton Children’s Hospital in Dayton, Ohio
- Harmonic Changes Music Therapy in Chicago, Illinois
- VITAS Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia
- The TrebleMakers in Gastonia, North Carolina
- Voices Together in Greensboro and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Highlighted Courses
Psychology of Music (MTH 320): Learn about divergent views of musical preference, motivation, ability, music learning, and music and the human brain.
Research Methods in Clinical Practice (MTH 420): You’ll examine various established methods of research, both quantitative and qualitative; and complete an original research proposal.
Psychology Discorders (PSY 271): You’ll examine the terminology, classification, etiology, assessment, and treatment of major disorders.
Anatomy and Physiology of Perception (QLC 340): Explore systems of the human body and how we react to and process various types of inputs with emphasis on the nervous system, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems.
Program Contact
Meg Stanley Johnson, M.M., MT-BC
Music Therapy Program Director
Senior Instructor, Art, Design and Music
johnsonm@queens.edu
704-337-2520