The Department of Music at La Sierra University is committed to helping the serious music student develop a life-long engagement with music as performer, composer, and listener. By providing the essential tools for making and responding to music, it is the aim of the following student learning outcomes to create a “whole” musician with the requisite skills, experiences, and artistic sensibilities that have the potential to continually inform and transform the musical life during and after formal study. Th us, at the completion of music studies at La Sierra University, the student will have developed the following by degree area:

Bachelor of Arts

1. Demonstrate the ability to hear, identify, and work conceptually with the elements of music, through sight-reading, basic keyboard proficiency and musical analysis.
2. Perform standard repertoire appropriate to their performance area, as soloists and members of ensembles.
3. Demonstrate analytical skills necessary for listening and performing.
4. Demonstrate skills necessary to perform music from a variety of periods, styles, and genres.
5. Demonstrate a working knowledge of music history within their area of specialization and an acquaintance with the history, cultural background, and repertories beyond that area, including a wide selection of Western and world music literature.
6. Demonstrate a working knowledge of music technology and its application to their area of specialization.

Bachelor of Music: Performance

1. Demonstrate excellence as solo and ensemble performers to provide a basis for a professional career as a musician.
2. Demonstrate specific knowledge in music theory, music history, and instrumental or vocal pedagogy to provide a basis for a professional career as a performing musician.
3. Demonstrate the ability to think, speak, and write clearly and effectively about the art of music.
4. Work collaboratively and as leaders in music interpretation.
5. Demonstrate a working knowledge of music history within their area of specialization and an acquaintance with the history, cultural background and repertories beyond that area, including a wide selection of Western and world music literature.
6. Demonstrate a working knowledge of music technology and its application to their area of specialization.

Bachelor of Music: Education

1. Demonstrate skill as solo and ensemble performers who can work as a professional educator.
2. Demonstrate specific knowledge in music theory, music history, and instrumental or vocal pedagogy to provide a basis for a professional career as a music educator.
3. Demonstrate the ability to think, speak, and write clearly and effectively about the art of music.
4. Work collaboratively and as leaders in music interpretation.
5. Demonstrate a working knowledge of music history within their area of specialization and an acquaintance with the history, cultural background, and repertories beyond that area, including a wide selection of Western and world music literature.
6. Demonstrate a working knowledge of music technology and its application to their area of specialization.
7. Demonstrate the ability to integrate skills and knowledge acquired over the course of an undergraduate education for the purpose of effectively teaching music to K-12 students in the SDA and public schools, in compliance with the competencies established by the California Department of Education.

Performance Certificate

1. Demonstrate excellence as solo and ensemble performers to provide a basis for a professional career as a musician.
2. Work collaboratively and as leaders in music interpretation.
3. Perform standard repertoire appropriate to their performance area, as soloists and members of ensembles.