Music

• Certificate

  Students completing the Jazz Studies Certificate and the Music Entrepreneurship Certificate will:

  • Employ writing and research skills to examine and communicate ideas about music.
  • Demonstrate competency as performers through the preparation of repertoire and technical studies.
  • Synthesize skills of performance, aural analysis, score analysis, technology, musicology, improvisation and composition.
• Associate Degree (Not Applicable)

   

• Bachelor Degree

  Graduates completing the Bachelor of Arts in Music and Bachelor of Music will:

  • Employ writing and research skills to examine and communicate ideas about music.
  • Demonstrate competency as performers through the preparation of repertoire and technical studies.
  • Synthesize skills of performance, aural analysis, score analysis, technology, musicology, improvisation and composition

  
  Graduates completing the Bachelor of Music Education will:

  • Employ writing and research skills to examine and communicate ideas about music.
  • Demonstrate competency as performers through the preparation of repertoire and technical studies.
  • Synthesize skills of performance, aural analysis, score analysis, technology, musicology, improvisation and composition
  • Use their knowledge of music history, world music, music theory, performance, composition and improvisation to design instructional strategies for K-12 students. 

Music offers opportunities for students to develop their creative and critical thinking skills.  As a discipline, it forces individuals to reconcile diverse ideas, and develop acute skills of cooperation and collaboration. Music opens doorways to careers in performance, music education, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, and other fields that value creativity, discipline and collaboration.
 
At Weber State University, students receive individualized attention and experience a wide variety of opportunities to perform, chances to travel to conferences and festivals as well as possibilities to tour nationally and internationally. Students experience a diversity of learning and practical experiences that help them develop as a musicians, teachers, and scholars.

Contact Information:

Daniel Jonas, D.M.A
Music Program Director
Weber State University
danieljonas@weber.edu
(801) 626-6443

Previously, we had expressed a desire to assess more of our program in order to better determine how well our students are doing. To that end, for this report we have created a specific program learning outcome for our Music Education degree (BME), updated out curricular grid, and assessed that learning outcome using an EoL sheet. Additionally we are now assessing the final project for the BA and have updated our curriculum grid to reflect that. We also moved from prior, narrative methods of assessment to more Learning Outcome driven methods of assessment for all core coursework listed in the Curriculum Grid. If the grid says a learning outcome is assessed in a course, we should have data and an EoL worksheet for it. This method of assessment will also be used for our Juries - a final, graded performance for all students who are taking private lessons - and the Curriculum Grid has been updated to include those private lessons.
One area that was assessed previously that will not be assessed in this report is large ensembles. Prior assessment of large ensembles had our faculty focus on student performance and improvement over the course of the semester rather than assessing whether students are meeting program learning outcomes through the ensemble courses. For our next assessment report we should update our curriculum grid to include the role large ensembles play in the curriculum and the assessment of learning outcomes, and then challenge the faculty to assess the students in terms of those learning outcomes using the standard EoL worksheet. With those changes, our next biennial assessment report should give us a more complete picture of how we are meeting program learning outcomes.
Additionally, one area of the music core curriculum - Piano - is not currently being assessed in regards to program learning outcomes. We should assess those courses in our next report and include them in our curriculum grid.

2021-22

2014-15