Department of Music (Education)
Mission Statement
The Department of Music seeks to train musicians in the essential skills, attitudes, and intellectual understandings that are necessary to be competent in their desired areas of vocation and to create opportunities for the appreciation of and participation in music within the broader community.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability to read and realize musical notation.
- Demonstrate the ability to hear, identify, and work conceptually with the elements of music: timbre, texture, harmony, rhythm, melody, and structure.
- Display an understanding of the compositional process and its historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts.
- Display an acquaintance with a wide selection of musical literature, the principal eras, genres, and cultural sources.
- Display the ability to develop and defend musical judgments.
- Music Education candidates will demonstrate the skills, knowledge, and aptitude necessary to assume the role of a professional educator through their upper level practica and student teaching.
- In addition to these outcomes, candidates pursuing a degree in Music Education will be responsible for the goals listed as part of the Conceptual Framework found in the School of Education's General Information section of the catalog.