Music

• Mission Statement

  The Music Program at Weber State University offers transformative educational experiences to music students of all identities and backgrounds. We foster student achievement, equity and inclusion, and community relationships through our multiple degree pathways, experiential learning, and personal connection with our faculty, staff, and community.

• Student Learning Outcomes
  • 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. 

• Curriculum Grid
• Program and Contact Information

  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

• Assessment Plan

  TIMELINE – Biennial assessment of program level learning outcomes at the course level
  ASSESSMENT STRATEGY – Dependent on the course. “Core” academic classes will use traditional EoL models, while performance
  ensembles will use a more narrative based assessment.
  DATA COLLECTION – Data will be collected from faculty every other Fall semester and reviewed in preparation of the biennial report.
  DEPARTMENT ENGAGEMENT – Faculty complete individual EoL or narrative responses for relevant courses, supply relevant assessment
  data, and participate in discussions about overall program assessment.

• Assessment Report Submissions

  2023-24
  2021-22
  2019-20 - No Report Submitted
  2017
  2016
  2015

• Program Review

  2021-22
   

This information is part of the cyclical program review process. Details such as mission statements, learning outcomes, etc., are updated as part of the biennial assessment reporting process, an integral component of program review.