Student Learning Outcomes The Department of Music at La Sierra
University is committed to helping the serious music student
develop a life-long engagement with music as performer,
composer, and listener. By providing the essential tools for
making and responding to music, it is the aim of the following
student learning outcomes to create a “whole” musician with the
requisite skills, experiences, and artistic sensibilities that
have the potential to continually inform and transform the
musical life during and after formal study. Thus, at the
completion of music studies at LSU, the student will have
developed: - A seeing ear and a hearing eye. Further defined,
students should be able to recognize, identify, and create,
given notation and/or sound, simple to complex patterns and
structures as they relate to the musical elements of pitch,
duration, amplitude, and timbre. - A theoretical foundation of
music. Analytical techniques, from simple to advanced, are
presented as tools to help in understanding and interna