Majors & Programs: Music | Winthrop University

Music

Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Music
Bachelor of Music Education

You are a listener. You dream of leading choirs, conducting orchestras, teaching students, or composing your own works. Learn music theory, aural skills, arranging, music technology and more.

A like-minded group of faculty, students, and staff with a shared passion for all aspects of music, Winthrop’s Department of Music provides supportive mentorships to foster your development as a musician and to prepare you for a career in music.

Winthrop offers four undergraduate and three graduate music degree programs, including a nonperformance-based program: the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with a Concentration in Music Technology. Courses cover fundamentals of music technology, audio recording/post-production, synthesis/signal processing, and audio for visual media.

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Curriculum and Learning Opportunities

Why Winthrop?

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Exceptional Faculty

Nearly 95 percent of the full-time music faculty hold the highest degree possible in their teaching specialty and perform professionally outside of the university and across the region.

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Nationally Accredited

Our music programs are accredited nationally by the National Association of Schools of Music (since 1940), the National Council on Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

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Continued Success

Winthrop has a 100 percent placement rate for Music Education graduates.


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Beyond Graduation

Lisa Knox

Lisa Knox
Music Education, Class of 2010


"Emeritus Professor of Music Kathy Kinsey and Associate Professor of Music Kristen Wunderlich have to be the two most important professors in my Winthrop career. They both pushed me and saw something in me that I didn't see in myself. They are responsible for the kind of musician and teacher that I am today."

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