About the Department

The Music Department has the following goals:

1. To recruit and maintain a well-balanced body of committed music majors who will set standards for other students in performance, practice habits, and scholarship.
2. To provide a Bachelor of Arts program with a balanced music curriculum for students with strong interests in music who also wish to pursue a broad liberal arts education.
3. To provide a Bachelor of Music program that prepares students for the strongest graduate programs; that develops performance skills through rigorous preparation of high-quality solo, chamber and large ensemble literature; and that prepares music education students to teach in elementary and secondary schools.
4. To enhance the general education program and student life by providing opportunities to all Southwestern University students to investigate music of various cultures, through performance as well as through theoretical and historical studies.
5. To maintain a faculty whose musical influence reaches beyond the community of Southwestern.

6. While our primary goal is to educate, not entertain, the Music Department is also committed to provide service to the University through participation in ceremonial events, services of worship and events for the Office of Institutional Advancement, both on and off campus.

• Southwestern University has been an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) since 1951.