Should YOU be a LIBERAL ARTS MUSIC MAJOR in Performance at VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY?

VU offers a traditional liberal arts education with breadth in general education and depth in one or two major subjects. For students choosing the music major as the focus of a Bachelor of Arts degree program, we offer comprehensive preparation in musicianship, history, theory, repertoire, and performance skills.

The liberal arts music major is flexible enough to permit a double major or a minor in another subject. It is also flexible enough, with careful planning, to include a semester off-campus. Graduates of VU's liberal arts music program excel in graduate schools, as artists, teachers, and administrators in music-related fields, and as successful professionals in other fields, including law, theology, medicine, business, and psychology.

As a Liberal Arts Music major at VU, you will have opportunity to . . .

• take full part in the life of the University's musical community.
• gain skills through regular performance experiences in formal and informal settings on and off campus.
• learn through courses, masterclasses, and workshops about the meanings, traditions, and expressive values of musical works, to enrich and develop your insights as a performer and listener.
• integrate your musical understanding with learning in other disciplines.
• develop your leadership abilities in creative activities, including chamber music, conducting, composing, improvising, arranging, and multi-arts collaborating.
• combine your music major with a major in another subject, or elect an international or urban semester while still completing your degree requirements within four years.

For general information, contact the Department office (219-464-5454 or music@valpo.edu).

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