BA: Music
Undergraduate Program Learning Outcomes
PLO # | Program learning Outcomes |
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PLO 1 | Knowledge about diverse musical practices – Demonstrate critical familiarity with differences and commonalities among musical practices and their material conditions, across a diverse range of genres, cultures, and histories. |
PLO 2 | Skills for analysis and description of music – Demonstrate familiarity with analytical tools arising in theories of music, including those in music theory, ethnomusicology, and sound studies, as they are applied to musical sounds, practices, and repertoires in diverse musical contexts. |
PLO 3 | Skills of music literacy and aurality – Demonstrate musicianship skills across diverse oral and notational repertoires. |
PLO 4 | Proficiency in music performance – Demonstrate performance proficiency on a specific instrument (including voice specializations) across a range of musical genres, periods, and/or practices |
PLO 5 | Music production, composition and improvisation – Demonstrate skills in music composition, improvisation and/or production including skills in audio technologies. |
PLO 6 | Research methods – Demonstrate working knowledge of social science, humanities, and/or arts approaches to research in music-relevant topics.This includes qualitative and quantitative research methods for, gathering or obtaining research data, finding/using primary sources, and other research approaches/methods |
PLO 7 | Effective writing about music and music practices – Demonstrate effective writing and interpretive skills to participate in disciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue about musical practices, traditions, genres, ideas, and music-making spaces. |
PLO 8 | Familiarity with multiple languages associated with music performance, scholarship, and composition |
Undergraduate Advising
Please contact the Music Department undergraduate advisor:
Cory Graves-Montalbano
Office: 246 Music Center
Email: cgravesm@ucsc.edu