Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Music Education] From Eastern Washington University

The Department of Music is committed to preparing students for a variety of music related careers. It also seeks to provide music instruction and experience for non majors. Its fully accredited degrees and options are offered for students who wish to become performers, composers, conductors, theorists, teachers, or scholars.?MUSC 212?Music in the Humanities?is open to all students and can be counted toward the General Education Core Requirements (GECRs). Opportunities also exist for private instruction in voice and instruments, as well as participation in musical ensembles?bands, choirs, orchestra, chamber ensembles and opera. Numerous public concerts and recitals are presented throughout the school year by faculty and students of the Department of Music.

The goal of the department is to provide students with musical instruction and experience of the highest possible quality. Our belief is that the study of music significantly enables students to become informed, responsible and appreciative members of a democratic society?which is a professed goal of EWU. We recognize differing needs of those for whom music is to become a profession and those for whom it will be an avocation or a listener?s art.

Facilities

Music students enjoy modern facilities featuring a state of the art piano laboratory with 16 units, 32 practice rooms, electronic music laboratory, five technically-enhanced classrooms and an extensive collection of recordings, scores and music reference materials located in the JFK Library. In addition, the department houses music classrooms, two large rehearsal rooms (vocal and instrumental) and a 250-seat capacity recital hall. The renovated Showalter Hall serves as an additional performance venue, as does the Hargreaves Reading Room.