Mission: "Comprehensive training of music educators for the cultural promotion and development of the environment."

Vision: We are part of a dynamic program of the artistic and musical culture in the Colombian Coffee Region, which provides services of teaching, research and extension from the Music Degree. The social and economic goals for our graduates include: recognition of artistic, intellectual and educational production and specialized teaching development. Our aim is the overall education with quality and excellence.

Objectives

We are part of a dynamic program of the artistic and musical culture in the Colombian Coffee Region, which provides services of teaching, research and extension from the Music Degree.

The social and economic goals for our graduates include: recognition of artistic, intellectual and educational production and specialized teaching development. Our aim is the overall education with quality and excellence.

Profile

Its comprehensive education, allows performing a successful career and leading processes of musical development in an institutional and community level. The Music School seeks primarily to train music educators as well rounded beings to serve the musical and social development, contribute in the process of modernization and equity of the society with quality and excellence, and develop musical institutions that achieve a harmonious development.

The graduate is recognized for being: a connoisseur and scholar of music and the socio-cultural context, change agent and innovation promoter, community leader and director of social work with commitment, morality, spirituality and respect for what he/she does, planner and implementer of social and musical researches.

The Music Degree teaches disciplinary, interdisciplinary, investigative, social and communication skills, which enables the student to serve as teacher, researcher, instrumentalist, arranger and / or composer, member of musical groups and cultural coordinator. He/she is capable of: being a good music educator, assuming the musical work in a creative, critical and investigative manner, promote social, cultural and human awareness through the exercise of teaching, interpret the educational policies determined for the  musical field, respond to basic musical needs of the academic, cultural and artistic environment.

Occupational Profile

The Music Degree graduate can work as:

• Teacher in the specific music area at an academic and artistic level, with basic training.
• Instrumentalist with a level of basic training, to form musical groups in different genres and also pursue higher studies, specializing in one of the different lines of instrumental emphasis.
• Designer and evaluator of music education programs.
• Cultural coordinator of artistic and cultural activities, projected to the community.
• Researcher in the musical field at a teaching, socio-cultural or artistic level.
• Arranger and composer in the pedagogical musical field.
• Member or director of musical groups in its various forms, according to their specific capabilities.