ABOUT SOME ASPECTS OF TEACHING HISTORY OF CHORAL MUSIC AS A SPECIAL DISCIPLINE
In the context of general modernization of the education sphere, the form and content of the educational process are significantly changing. The nature of these changes is ambiguous, especially when it comes to art education. In this regard, the authors indicate the need to consider the content of a creative university’s educational process in order to deeper understand its specifics. The authors emphasize the basic courses systematizing students’ knowledge and building the foundation for further education. In particular, they include the discipline “History of Choral Music” taught to students of the profile “Conducting by an academic choir” in the Altai State Institute of Culture. Further, the article determines the place of the named discipline in the educational program, the purpose and the objectives of its teaching, and also examines the competence formed by the course. The authors name and consider the most effective approaches for building this competency: the practice-oriented, the personality-oriented, the intersubject, and also discuss such forms of monitoring student performance as “portrait-presentation” and “music quiz”, and the possibilities of their implementation with hypermedia technologies. In conclusion, the authors talk on conditions for achieving the greatest efficiency of the educational process. These conditions include replacing fragmented knowledge with systemic one, intensifying the students’ creative independence, and also ensuring interdisciplinarity in teaching special disciplines.