Training
•Bullet: Liberal arts music major integrating musical practice with scholarship
•Bullet: Curriculum centers five ways of knowing music: performance, creation, analysis, ethnography, and history
•Bullet: Paths support students with any level of musical experience, including beginners
•Bullet: Course options span performance, composition, production, music history, theory, ethnomusicology, and popular music studies
Professional Development
•Bullet: Students develop an individualized plan with department faculty after acceptance into the major
•Bullet: Honors work may focus on a critical or scholarly project, composition, performance, creative recording, or full-length recital
•Bullet: Music faculty research and creative work connect performance, scholarship, technology, culture, and community engagement
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: Amherst's open curriculum lets students shape the major alongside other academic interests
•Bullet: Cross-disciplinary course offerings connect music with physics, religion, anthropology, European studies, and theater and dance
•Bullet: Graduates pursue music as well as careers in healthcare, public service, law, business, education, and technology
