Student Learning Outcomes

Bachelor of Arts in Music

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze, both aurally and visually, structural and expressive elements of music.
  2. Students will be able to identify, explain, and compare compositional processes and the ways they are shaped by diverse social, historical, and cultural forces.
  3. Students will think, speak, write, and read critically about music, making connections between music and other fields of study within the liberal arts.
  4. Students will create and perform music, informed by knowledge of historical and contemporary repertoires.
  5. Students will develop the technical skills for artistic expression in solo and ensemble performance.


Bachelor of Music Education

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze, both aurally and visually, structural and expressive elements of music.
  2. Students will be able to identify, explain, and compare compositional processes and the ways they are shaped by diverse social, historical, and cultural forces.
  3. Students will think, speak, write, and read critically about music, making connections between music and other fields of study within the liberal arts.
  4. Students will create and perform music, informed by knowledge of historical and contemporary repertoires.
  5. Students will develop and teach the technical skills for artistic expression in solo and ensemble performance.
  6. Students will demonstrate knowledge and facility with music technologies.
  7. Students will demonstrate facility with multiple forms of assessment.
  8. Students will critically evaluate the quality of instructional materials.
  9. Students will create and apply reflective, responsive, and research-based teaching practices that support music education in just, ethical, and equitable ways.


Bachelor of Music (Performance)

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze, both aurally and visually, structural and expressive elements of music.
  2. Students will be able to identify, explain, and compare compositional processes and the ways they are shaped by diverse social, historical, and cultural forces.
  3. Students will think, speak, write, and read critically about music, making connections between music and other fields of study within the liberal arts.
  4. Students will create and perform music, informed by knowledge of historical and contemporary repertoires.
  5. Students will demonstrate a trajectory toward mastery of the technical skills for artistic self-expression in solo and ensemble performance.
  6. Students will improvise and sight-read with fluency.
  7. Students will demonstrate and apply knowledge of the fundamentals of pedagogy in their primary area.


Music Minor

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to aurally and visually analyze structural and expressive elements of music.
  2. Students will be able to identify, explain, and compare compositional processes and the ways they are shaped by diverse social, historical, and cultural forces.
  3. Students will think, speak, write, and read critically about music, making connections between music and other fields of study within the liberal arts.
  4. Students will create and perform music, informed by knowledge of historical and contemporary repertoires.
  5. Students will develop the technical skills for musical expression.