Mission Statement
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 develop in students a basis for aesthetic judgment, an understanding and appreciation for music, and the ability to distinguish musical quality;(2) To provide professional training in music education, music business, musical theatre, musical performance, piano pedagogy, and preparatory training in music therapy; (3) To prepare students for graduate work and advanced study in music; (4) To assure an opportunity for the highest degree of artistic development for each student; (5) Toguide the university, the community, and the region in acquiring greater musical understanding and critical judgment of music; (6) To provide leadership in the musical life of the region.