This emphasis serves students who choose music as the focus of a broader liberal arts education. The program offers flexibility in focus and course content. The wide range of learning coupled with the discipline of music engenders open doors in numerous music-related and non-music fields.
Music, the art of organizing sound in time, is a universal language given to us by God that expresses thoughts and emotions where words cannot.
Other Ensembles include Piano Ensembles, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles including a String Quartet, Brass Quartet and Woodwind Quintet, Guitar Ensemble, and Percussion Ensemble, Pep Band, Vocal Jazz Quartet, and Barbershop Quartet.
All of our faculty and staff affirm our full doctrinal statement, which has remained essentially unchanged since our founding. We believe and teach:
This program offers flexibility in focus and course content. Students choose two focus areas from the following:
| Biblical Studies | Business Studies | Choral Studies |
| Communication Studies, | Elective Music Studies | Instrumental Studies |
| Multiple Instrument Studies | Music History & Literature Studies | Music Theory Studies |
| Music Writing Studies | Piano Studies | Vocal Studies & Worship Studies |
| Commercial Music Studies | Worship Studies |
The focus areas account for 36% of the total degree requirements. Performance requirements may be satisfied by a recital or a project. The wide range of learning coupled with the discipline of music engenders open doors in numerous music-related and non-music fields.
This emphasis serves students who choose music as the focus of a broader liberal arts education. The program offers flexibility in focus and course content. The wide range of learning coupled with the discipline of music engenders open doors in numerous music-related and non-music fields.
Total core + focus area courses: 67-69
*Testing out allowed for any or all semesters of Piano Foundations.
**Required for primary instrument: voice.
***Fulfills G.E. requirement for MU190.
**** Four semesters
