Career roadmap
How to become an Art, Drama, and Music Professor
What you would actually do
The tasks Art, Drama, and Music Professors spend real time on, weighted by how central each one is to the job.
- Teach humanities courses at the college level.
- Tutor students who need extra assistance.
- Guide class discussions.
- Evaluate student work.
- Develop instructional materials.
- Maintain student records.
- Coordinate student extracurricular activities.
- Stay informed about current developments in field of specialization.
The skills that actually carry the job
Scored on how much the work depends on each one — not a wishlist, a measurement.
- Speaking4.6/5
- Instructing4.4/5
- Learning Strategies4.1/5
- Reading Comprehension4.0/5
- Active Listening4.0/5
- Active Learning4.0/5
- Writing3.9/5
- Monitoring3.8/5
- Critical Thinking3.6/5
- Social Perceptiveness3.6/5
Would this suit you?
Every occupation leans on a particular mix of interests. Here is the mix Art, Drama, and Music Professors are measured on — and our free 2-minute Career Match scores you on the same six.
- Social6.9/7
Helping, teaching, caring for and working directly with people
- Artistic5.9/7
Creating, expressing, working without a fixed procedure
- Investigative4.1/7
Investigating, diagnosing, reasoning through problems with evidence
- Realistic3.2/7
Hands-on, practical, working with tools, machines or the body
- Conventional2.4/7
Ordering, checking, following a precise procedure accurately
- Enterprising2.1/7
Persuading, leading, selling, taking commercial risk
Interest profiles from the O*NET 29.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Used under CC BY 4.0.
