AY 2024-2025

https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:12289/form

C1. How will the changes fit with the Institutional Mission / Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)

The BM in Music at Cal State LA is designed to cultivate the unique talents, diverse life experiences, and intellect of our students through transformative musicianship, performance, and scholarship. Through coursework, ensemble study, public performance, and scholarship, students have ample opportunity to demonstrate the following departmental values that align with the University’s mission and vision: - Musical Excellence Emphasizing the development of excellent musicianship through a diverse approach to the study of harmony, musicianship, and musicology. - Community Building a community of music within the Department, across the University, and in the greater Los Angeles area. - Diversity Celebrating artistic and cultural diversity, including backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. - Technology Emphasizing technology as a crucial component in the evolving musical landscape. - Public Engagement Bringing music into the public sphere, especially by engaging with and building our musical communities. - Social Justice Giving students opportunities to enact social change through music in order to become engaged members of the global community.

C2. Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

1. Musicianship, technique and artistry appropriate to the major area.
2. The ability to form and defend value judgments about music.
3. A broad knowledge of repertoire and the ability to perform and/or apply that knowledge in the major area.
4. Leadership and collaboration skills on matters of musical performance and interpretation.
5. An understanding of procedures for realizing and communicating a variety of musical styles and structures in their historical and cultural contexts.
6. An understanding of the role of music in society through performance and/or critical analysis.