[CAUT] CAUT credential vs. academic program?

[Jeff Tanner]

On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Paul T Williams wrote:

>  It's nice to know what they're talking about, but you can't  
> "require" such a diversity of learning for being a CAUT.  It just  
> helps a bunch.

I think whether it helps a bunch is dependent on who thinks so.  How  
would you know how much it has helped since you have the education?   
It is impossible to measure that versus how much you could have  
learned without pursuing the formal education the "establishment"  
requires.

Yes, I'm like you.  I had several majors, beginning with Information  
Technology, General Business, Risk Management and Choral Education,  
studying voice and being actively involved in several performing  
ensembles and other performing opportunities from the 1st day of  
classes my freshman year before I finished with the Business degree.   
Yes.  I was taking major level voice instruction and representing the  
school at state wide competitions and other events as a Business major.

But to say it "helps a bunch" is difficult to measure.

We are machine technicians.  What we actually do has little to do  
with music, whether we want to admit it or not.  Music can be created  
when we are finished, but it is not necessary to know much about  
music to do high level piano work.  It seems that persons with high  
levels of musicianship and musical training tend to pursue our craft,  
and also tend to be the ones who pursue CAUT work.  But I believe it  
is possible to do very high level work in our field without much  
musical knowledge.

Jeff


Jeff Tanner, RPT
University of South Carolina



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