Department Introduction

• As the development of popular music and multimedia and broadcasting contents rapidly increase, the demand for practical music is also increasing socially. The Department of Practical Music is based on practical curriculum and practice in order to respond to increasingly diverse expressions of popular music, and the Major in Performance aims to improve the outstanding performance ability of vocals, guitars, basses, synthesizers, and pianos, and the Major in Practical Music Composition is practical. Students study composition techniques through analysis of musical works in depth, expand musical expression skills, and cultivate performance, composition, and production skills required in the information and communication society such as broadcasting, concerts, advertisements, and the Internet./li>

Educational Goals

• In order to maximize the improvement of practical music performance, the ability to have a high level of performance skills is achieved by providing practical subjects such as 1:1 major practical skills, band workshop, rhythm ensemble, rhythm style research, and theoretical education such as practical music arrangement method and jazz harmony. To cultivate talent.
• A competent practical music composer through an ideal curriculum that combines theory and production practice such as practical harmonization, pop/jazz harmony, pop/jazz music history, recording technique, practical music composition practice, session performance workshop, audio sequencing, music industry field practice, etc. To train.
• Directly linking with the music production practices of professors currently engaged in broadcasting, film, advertisement, and record production companies to seek employment opportunities while attending school, and gradually foster “academic companies” centered on graduates and enrolled students of the department. .
• The department's classes are operated in the same on-site practice type as those of record, broadcast, film, and commercial production companies, thereby enhancing production and ability through a four-year curriculum to the level of a four-year field-working experience, thereby securing competitiveness in employment.

Related Certificates

• Stage sound expert certificate, music professional education institution teacher/instructor certificate, culture and arts education certificate 2nd grade, sound cancer treatment counselor, church music leader, vocal trainer certificate, tuning technician, music art management certificate, sound equipment manager, infant piano instructor certificate

Career Information After Graduation

• Concert performers, studio sessions, pop singers, musical singers, singer-songwriters, music therapists, music leaders, children's music coaches, broadcast music producers, engineers, drama and film musicians, composers and arrangers of popular music, operators, commercials Get a job as a composer or producer. Various performances and practice while attending school are selected in consideration of one's major ability and are greatly influenced by the career path after graduation. In particular, studio sessions, singer-songwriters, and engineers have excellent professional skills and are highly preferred.