Application for Short-Term Courses

Teachers may enroll in any SAA course as either participants (for graduate credit or noncredit) or auditors. Teachers may enroll for only one course per time period listed. The ECC course is noncredit. The violin and cello Book 1 courses carry 2 graduate credits. All other courses carry 1.5 graduate credits. All courses are also offered on a noncredit basis. Participants must provide their own instruments and will perform during class sessions. The auditor category is designed for teachers who do not have the technical facility to perform the material in the book being studied. Auditors do not perform during class sessions.

To qualify as a participant in training courses rather than an auditor, applicants must submit a videotape audition of specified repertoire to the SAA, preferably prior to enrollment. Tapes must be submitted at least eight weeks prior to the course start date. Audition results determining participant eligibility may not be available prior to the course and will require late audition fees. For courses occurring during summer 2008, applicants submitting tapes later than March 31, 2008, may not receive audition results prior to the course, even if meeting the above deadlines. An applicant may enroll late as "tape pending" but will incur late audition fees, and audition results determining eligibility for participant credit will not be available until after the course. If auditions from "tape pending" applicants are not accepted, their coursework will not be eligible retroactively for SAA credit registration as a participant -- only as an auditor -- even if coursework was completed.

Please visit the SAA website at www.suzukiassociation.org, and click on the teacher training link to access the downloadable video audition application form (with instructions); or call the SAA toll free at 888-378-9854 to request this form.