MUSIC (Minor)

The study of music is available to all students through courses in a variety of styles and levels offered by the Department of Visual & Performing Arts. Musicology courses focused on specific genres are designed to increase aesthetic awareness and promote active listening. Courses in music performance and private instruction develop individual potential, providing lifelong opportunities for purposeful social experience. Beginners are encouraged to participate.

Students may also declare a minor in music, to complement a major in any other area of study. The combination of a music minor with various majors may lead to graduate study and/ or careers in such fields as the expressive therapies or arts administration.

A student who decides to declare the music minor should do so through the portal. In addition to the requirements listed below, the faculty encourages music minors to elect an inter-area field experience that applies knowledge of music in a field placement appropriate to the student’s major. Many students have found this pleasurable and beneficial for further career opportunities. 

Program Learning Outcomes

• Describe and analyze the formal elements of music as expressed in varied global practices. 

• Identify and compare the repertories of varied global music traditions in historical and cultural context. 

• Interpret music’s meaning and function within a broad historical and cultural framework.

• Design and create original musical works and collaborative musical/multi-media projects. 

• Perform as soloists and/or ensemble members in musical performance.