UNK'S MUSIC PROGRAMS serve the needs of the student with quality instruction, personal supervision, and excellent and varied performance opportunities. All of the full-time faculty have earned doctorates or the highest degree in their discipline, yet each teaches all levels of students from freshmen to graduates. All programs offered are enhanced by the excellent musical talent and opportunity that flourishes at U.N.K.Students have an incomparable training situation on this campus. Small classes and immediate musical involvement provide ongoing channels for student activity. All programs are carefully planned to provide students with purposeful, realistic, and challenging learning situations. All programs are fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
Mission Statement: The Department of Music & Performing Arts is a disciplinary unit withinthe College of Fine Arts & Humanities of the University of Nebraska-Kearney. It provides a high-quality music education to the students of the University. The department's highest priority is to educate students to be lifelong, independent learners and practitioners of music. The faculty continuously creates a constructive, stimulating,challenging, and rewarding student-centered learning environment. The faculty and students serve the community, state, and region as an intellectual, artistic, and cultural resource, thereby making the department an indispensable center of learning, leadership, inquiry,and cooperative achievement.
Objectives: (1) To present concerts, recitals, musicals, operas, and music for special events for the artistic enrichment of the region; (2) To offer quality courses and instruction in the areas of music theory, music history, music education, music business, music technology, music performance, music composition, music pedagogy, musical theatre, opera, music appreciation, and musical ensembles; (3) To provide curricula leading to nationally accredited bachelor degree programs in music, music education, music business, music performance (composition, instrumental, piano, piano with pedagogy emphasis, vocal), musical theatre, and a master’s degree in music education; (4) To give preparatory training in music that enables a student to enter a music therapy program at another university; (5) To provide rigorous academic undergraduate programs that prepare music students for graduate work and advanced study; (6) To engender an interest in academic research and creative activity in graduate and undergraduate music students; (7) To engender an interest in academic research and creative activity in graduate and undergraduate music students; (8) To foster in music and dance students a sense of aesthetic judgment and the ability to distinguish musical quality that comes from their participation in private instruction, studio classes, performance ensembles, master classes, workshops, recitals, concerts, research and creative activities, and through their regular attendance at faculty and guest artist performances; (9) To provide opportunities for all university students to develop skills in critical judgment, and an informed understanding and appreciation for music through their participation in music courses and ensembles, and through their attendance at student, faculty, and guest artist performances; (10) To guide and nurture the highest degree of artistic development in each music student through private study on their musical instrument or voice with music faculty who have proven their high artistic standards of performance; (11) To lead the university, community, and region in acquiring greater musical understanding and critical judgment through involvement in music courses, participation in music ensembles and attendance at various musical functions; (12) To offer leadership in the musical life of the region by providing participative, collaborative, and advisory services to teachers, community members, and alumni.
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