Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Music program can:

1. Analyze a significant work of music, employing relevant concepts of phrasal, harmonic and structural analysis.
2. Research a subject in the history of music by employing the major resources of music research, and engaging with those sources to create and support a scholarly argument.
3. Demonstrate proficiency on a major instrument (or voice).
4. Articulate an awareness of various career and graduate school options in music.
5. Articulate a post-graduation plan based on a demonstrated awareness of their own interests and gifts.
6. Demonstrate mature reflection on their own faith as it informs their work as musicians and their career choices.

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

MUED 251	Conducting I: Fundamentals	2
MUEN xxx	Music Ensemble credits	6
MUMH 303	History of Music I	2
MUMH 304	History of Music II	3
MUMH 305	History of Music III	3
MUMH 338	Studies in Global Music	2
MUSI 001	Concert Attendance	0
MUSI 481	Senior Seminar in Music	1
MUTH 101	Music Theory I	3
MUTH 102	Music Theory II	3
MUTH 107	Sight Singing & Ear Training I	1
MUTH 108	Sight Singing & Ear Trng II	1
MUTH 109	Keyboard I	1
MUTH 110	Keyboard II	1
MUTH 201	Music Theory III	3
MUTH 202	Music Theory IV	3
MUTH 207	Sight Singing & Ear Trng. III	1
	Piano Proficiency Exam	0
	Senior Recital (solo or joint)	0

Eight credits of the following:

One or three credits from the following:

MUED 140	Voice Class	1
MUSI 452	Vocal Pedagogy	3

AND 7 or 5 credits of MUAP electives (7 or 5)

Commercial Concentration (12 credits)

One of the following options:

A. Option 1 (12 credits)

One semester (12 credits) at the Contemporary Music Center in the artist, business, or technical track.

B. Option 2 (12 credits)

Distributed as follows:

MUCM 351	Electronic Music and MIDI	3
MUSI 261	Music Entrepreneurship	1

Three to four credits from the following courses:

BIOL 313	Developmental Biology	3
BIOL 348	Animal Behavior	3
BIOL 381	Microbiology	4
BIOL 382	Microbiology for Health Professions	4
BIOL 385	Physiology	4
BIOL 386	Gross Anatomy	4
BIOL 412	Cell Biology	4
BIOL 416	Cancer Biology	3
BIOL 418	Immunology	4

Three credits from the following:

 

MUCM 353	Sound Design	3
INTE 391	Internship	1-3
ARTM 401	Arts Management	3

Five credits from the following:

 

MUCM 353	Sound Design	3
INTE 391	Internship	1-3
ARTM 401	Arts Management	3
MUEN xxx	Music Ensemble electives
MUAP xxx	Applied Music electives

All music majors, except those in the Music (Business) and Music (Music and Worship) degrees, will register for Keyboard I in order to prepare for the Piano Proficiency Exam. Students who successfully pass the Piano Proficiency Exam at the end of the Fall semester will fulfill the other keyboard credit with any music course. Students who do not pass (or attempt) the Piano Proficiency exam in the fall will register for Keyboard II in the Spring semester. Students who do not pass the Piano Proficiency Exam at the end of the Spring Semester, will register for MUAP Piano lessons until the exam is passed at the end of their Sophomore year or second year as a music major. Students are allowed three attempts to pass the Piano Proficiency Exam.

QuEST Requirements

Experiential Learning requirement	0
QuEST requirements	Credits
First Year Seminar	3
Oral Communication	3
Created and Called for Community (W)	3
Mathematical Sciences	3-4
Laboratory Science	3-4
Science, Technology & the World	3
Two of the following: Social Science, European or United States History	6
Literature	3
Philosophy and Religion	3
Arts	waived
First Semester of Language	3
Second Semester of Language	3
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural	3
Non-Western Studies (MUMH 338)	met/major
Bible	3
Christian Beliefs	3
Wellness course	1
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism	3
QuEST requirements	46-48
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration)	56
Free electives	21-19
Total credits	123