BA / BM Music

WCU’s music program prepares students to become professional musicians, music teachers or commercial and electronic music recording artists. The program also offers a track for students interested in music industry jobs from producing records to managing artists. WCU’s School of Music is a community of faculty, staff and students who come together to learn and cultivate the art form of music, whether marching with the 500 members of the national award-winning Pride of the Mountains Marching Band or recording an original composition in a state-of-the-art studio on campus. 

Faculty members who are active performers, researchers, composers and scholars guide students through the program, which has a fully equipped recording studio and hosts more than 300 concerts and recitals annually. Students take musicianship courses and individual lessons, and present a public recital. Musicians concentrating on performance study additional music theory and performance techniques, and participate in a variety of ensembles. Aspiring music educators take classes that prepare them to be successful, licensed teachers. Commercial and electronic music students study contemporary music technology and how to record, edit, mix and master digital audio. Music industry students complete an internship and concentrate on fundamentals of the music business with course topics ranging from royalties to artist management.