The Hartt School - Program Learning Outcomes

Diploma in Music: Instrumental or Vocal

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of basic techniques required to perform at a professional level.
2. demonstrate musicianship that includes advanced aural understanding and the integration of knowledge of music history and theory to performance.
3. work effectively in a large and/or chamber ensemble as appropriate.
4. perform publicly with confidence and assurance.
5. complete a recital by successfully selecting, preparing and performing serious demanding repertoire.

Diploma in Music: Composition

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate a thorough knowledge of compositional techniques, both traditional and experimental for a range of ensembles: chamber, vocal, orchestral, and electronic.
2. demonstrate knowledge of a range of contemporary repertoire and historical periods.
3. display technical and artistic facility with new music technologies including computer notation, recording techniques, and sequencing/synthesis.
4. coordinate, coach, and produce their own music in live performance.
5. explain traditional and experimental works in terms of their historical and theoretical underpinnings.

Acoustical Engineering and Music, Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Students will be able to:

1. apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering.
2. design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data.
3. design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.
4. function on multidisciplinary teams.
5. identify, formulate and solve engineering problems.
6. have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
7. communicate effectively.
8. understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
9. have a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.
10. use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
11. have an understanding of musical theory and history, and
12. ability in ear training and music performance or composition.

Instrumental Studies Division

Performance: Guitar, Bachelor of Music 

Students will be able to:

1. perform at advance levels to gain entry into a prestigious graduate degree program.
2. demonstrate ability in reading, performing, and transcribing lute and baroque guitar tablatures.
3. perform effectively in guitar and chamber ensembles.
4. demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of guitar repertoire.
5. understand principles and techniques of teaching classical guitar.
6. demonstrate fundamental performance ability and knowledge of jazz electric guitar styles.

Performance: Orchestral Instruments, Bachelor of Music

Performance: Orchestral Instruments: Chamber Emphasis, Bachelor of Music

Performance: Orchestral Instruments: Elective Studies Emphasis, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of basic techniques required to perform at a professional level.
2. perform on their instruments in a technically proficient and accurate manner.
3. have knowledge of pedagogical issues relative to their respective instrument.
4. be adept at performing in and understanding similar and dissimilar relevant characteristics of solo, chamber music and large ensemble environments.=

Performance: Piano, Bachelor of Music

Performance: Piano: Chamber Music Emphasis, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. perform at a level appropriate for graduate level study.
2. perform with proper technique that includes proper playing position, tonal production, and use of pedals.
3. memorize solo repertoire (excluding 20th c. repertoire).
4. demonstrate ensemble performance skills.
5. skill at vocal and instrumental accompaniment including sight-reading.

Vocal Studies Division

Performance: Voice, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate knowledge of art song, opera, and choral literature from a variety of stylistic periods.
2. perform art song, opera, and choral literature with professional level artistry and vocal technique.
3. demonstrate competency with the International Phonetic Alphabet, lyric diction in Italian, French, German, and English, a basic comprehension of Italian, French and German.
4. demonstrate an understanding of vocal technique as it relates to their voices and vocal pedagogy as it applies to variety of teaching situations.
5. complete a senior recital by successfully selecting, preparing, and performing professional-level repertoire.

Music Education Division

Music Education: Guitar Emphasis, Bachelor of Music

Music Education: Instrumental Emphasis, Bachelor of Music

Music Education: Piano Emphasis, Bachelor of Music

Music Education: Vocal Emphasis, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. research materials relevant to the music education profession including print and electronic sources.
2. demonstrate methodologies that reflect current practice, assessment techniques, and address individual differences for students in preschool through high school.
3. demonstrate proficiencies on secondary instruments and their related instructional methodologies.
4. demonstrate effective use of technology in learning/teaching.

Music Studies Division

Composition, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate a thorough knowledge of compositional techniques, both traditional and experimental, for a range of ensembles: chamber, vocal, orchestral, and electronic.
2. demonstrate knowledge of a wide range of contemporary repertoire and historical periods.
3. display technical and artistic facility with new music technologies including computer notation, recording techniques, and sequencing/synthesis.
4. coordinate, coach, and produce their own music in live performance.
5. explain traditional and experimental works in terms of their historical and theoretical underpinnings in both written and verbal form.
6. have knowledge about the state of the field of composition and an understanding of how to manage their prospective careers.

Music, Bachelor of Arts

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate a conceptual understanding of forms, harmonic syntax, and compositional structures found in tonal music.
2. demonstrate foundational musicianship with introductory skills in ear training and theory.
3. demonstrate a broad knowledge of classical music repertoire with an understanding of characteristics of music within historical eras.
4. with an awareness of history, express and engage in the criticism of important ideas associated with music, related arts, and non-arts disciplines.

Music History: Performance Practice, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. Historical Instruments: students will be able to perform with advanced skills on a historical instrument and perform with moderate ability on a secondary historical instrument.
2. Historical Issues: students will be able to demonstrate familiarity with historical issues of ornamentation, improvisation, phrasing, figured bass realization (keyboard), practices of instrumental doubling, and ensemble performance.
3. Historical Events: students will be able to demonstrate a morphological and contextual understanding of musical historical events and issues that inform authentic performance.
4. Historical Methods: students will be able to use electronic and traditional research methods and references and demonstrate an ability to wisely critique musicological sources.
5. Music and Other Disciplines: students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the connections between music, related arts, and other disciplines, and an understanding of philosophical thought in relation to history and modern cultures.

Music History: Scholarship and Research, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. Historical Events: students will be able to demonstrate morphological and contextual understanding of musical historical events, issues, and data.
2. Research Methods: students will be able to use electronic and traditional research methods and references and demonstrate an ability to wisely critique musicological sources.
3. Music and Other Disciplines: students will be able to demonstrate a command of a second language, connections between music related arts and other disciplines, and an understanding of philosophical thought in relation to history and modern cultures.

Music Theory, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate a working knowledge of standard techniques of analysis of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present.
2. discuss music from the Common Practice Period to the present day.
3. demonstrate a thorough knowledge of tonal harmonic syntax through part writing and bass realization.
4. display a working knowledge of tonal and modal counterpoint.
5. sight-sing and write from dictation tonal melodies and chord progressions.
6. perform easy piano pieces, generate tonal progressions, realize figured bass, and read a simple score at the keyboard.
7. communicate clearly and with confidence the principles of harmony and analysis.
8. with an awareness of history, express and engage in the criticism of ideas associated with disciplines within and outside the arts.
9. read a foreign language important to musicological research.
10. demonstrate familiarity of computer technology and its use in collecting, organizing, and expressing written language and music symbol systems.

Music Management: Classical or Jazz Emphasis, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of business and management and the ability to apply this knowledge to the management of the arts.
2. demonstrate knowledge of the music which informs their understanding of arts management.
3. master communication skills necessary to succeed in both the arts and management fields.
4. execute contracts, design marketing and business plans, understand the roles and responsibilities of artist management, and understand copyright law and issues.

Music Production and Technology, Bachelor of Music

Students will be able to:

1. listen critically and evaluate sound from both a musical and technical perspective.
2. demonstrate an understanding of the physical properties of sound, acoustical environments, and technical expertise of up-to-date sound recording systems and techniques appropriate the musical genres
3. demonstrate theoretical and historical musical knowledge as well as performance skills
4. demonstrate familiarity with fundamental business practices to understand the legalities and procedures associated with contractual agreements in the performing arts.

Music and Performing Arts Management, Bachelor of Arts

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of business and management and the ability to apply this knowledge to the management of the arts.
2. demonstrate knowledge of the repertoire which informs their understanding of arts management.
3. master communication skills necessary to succeed in both the arts and management fields.
4. execute contracts, design marketing and business plans, understand the roles and responsibilities of artist management, and understand copyright law and issues.

Dance Division

Dance: Ballet Pedagogy Emphasis, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate an ability and readiness to execute classical ballet to the advanced level including technical mastery and artistic presentation.
2. create and implement curricula and teaching strategies within various dance forms.
3. demonstrate an ability to teach dance and to interpret for teaching a broad range of movement styles and choreography while addressing the three artistic processes of performing, creating, and responding.
4. teach concepts based on an in-depth knowledge of pedagogical theory and practice and movement theories including recognized dance techniques, Movement Fundamentals, Anatomy, and Kinesiology.
5. synthesize knowledge of choreographic processes, dance history, pedagogical theory and practice, and movement theories to the teaching of dance.
6. observe, critically evaluate and analyze the effectiveness of dance curricula, various dance situations, and the performance of dance students in order to develop strategies to assess and improve students’ performance.
7. demonstrate knowledge of elementary through advanced ballet syllabus and its correct execution and an ability to sequentially and developmentally teach classical ballet to the advanced level.
8. demonstrate knowledge of the basic activities and functions required to administer/operate a private dance school.
9. demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge of choreographic processes to create dances and to collaborate with choreographers and other artists.
10. create movement material through improvisation by accessing individual and collective creative potentials.
11. apply knowledge of the elements of dance forms and choreographic forms and structures to solve movement problems and create dances.
12. demonstrate an ability to analyze and evaluate their own and other’s choreography.
13. demonstrate an understanding of connections between theatre, related arts, and other disciplines, and an understanding of philosophical thought in relation to history and modern cultures.

Dance: Performance Emphasis, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate ability and readiness to dance at a professional level.
2. demonstrate ability to dance classical ballet and contemporary dance forms at the advanced level, including technical mastery and artistic presentation.
3. demonstrate ability to interpret for performance a broad range of movement styles and choreography.
4. apply knowledge of choreographic processes to create dances and collaborate with choreographers and other artists.
5. create movement material through improvisation by accessing individual and collective creative potentials.
6. apply knowledge of the elements of dance forms and choreographic forms and structures to solve movement problems and create dances.
7. demonstrate the ability to analyze and evaluate their own and other’s choreography.
8. demonstrate dance’s relationships to other art forms (music, text, costume, scenic design, and lighting).
9. demonstrate an understanding of connections between theatre, related arts, and other disciplines, and an understanding of philosophical thought in relation to history and modern cultures.

Theatre Division

Actor Training, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Students will be able to:

1. develop a mastery of acting technique – a product of the courses in acting, voice and speech, and movement.
2. achieve mastery of related specialized techniques that include advanced study in phonetics, heightened language, text analysis, styles of movement and dialects.
3. demonstrate competency through presentation and performance – a product of our class project and performance season.
4. develop an understanding of the context in which they will work as professionals – a product of our courses in career preparation, theatre history/stage craft, and make up.

Music Theatre, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Students will be able to:

1. develop a mastery of acting technique – a product of the courses in acting, voice and speech, and movement.
2. achieve mastery of related specialized techniques that include theatrical singing technique, dance, ear training, music theory and basic piano.
3. demonstrate competency through presentation and performance – a product of our class project and performance season.
4. develop an understanding of the context in which they will work as professionals – a product of our courses in career preparation, theatre history, music theatre history, dramatic literature, make up and stage craft.

Stage Management, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Students will be able to:

1. demonstrate professional level mastery of written and oral communication skills in the practice of stage management.
2. demonstrate professional level mastery of stage management tasks such as scheduling, conducting rehearsal and performance, creating the production book and calling cues.
3. demonstrate the ability to integrate the technical/artistic elements of stage production such as acting, lighting, sound, scenery, properties and costumes in the practice of stage management.
4. demonstrate professional level mastery of leadership and management skills in the practice of stage management.
5. successfully apply critical thinking skills in the practice of stage management.

Technical Theatre, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Students will be able to:

1. Interpersonal Communication Skills - Students will be able to demonstrate professional level mastery of written and oral communication skills in the practice of technical theater.
2. Leadership/Management Skills - Students will be able to demonstrate professional level mastery of leadership and management skills in the practice of technical theater.
3. Critical Thinking - Students will be able to successfully apply critical thinking skills in the practice of technical theater.
4. Collaboration/Teamwork - Students will be able to successfully apply collaboration/teamwork skills in the practice of technical theater.
5. Technical/Organizational Skills - Students will be able to demonstrate professional level mastery of technical theater tasks such as scheduling, material selection, organization and crew leadership, leading to successful productions.
6. Production elements - Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to integrate the technical/artistic elements of stage production such as acting, lighting, sound, scenery, properties and costumes in their area of specialization in technical theater.

The Jackie McLean Jazz Studies Division

Jazz Studies, Bachelor of Music

Goals:

1. To examine and explore the history and origins of jazz music and the innovators who propelled the evolution of the art form.
2. To develop musicianship through jazz theory, ear training, keyboard skills, ensemble playing, composing, improvisation arranging, and in public performance.
3. To obtain an understanding of elements and structure of music and how they are used in the creation of a jazz performance.
4. To gain insight on the business of music as a jazz musician.
5. To focus on professionalism that encompasses punctuality, attention to detail, respect for other art forms and its artists, and a consistent daily work ethic.