Licence en Musique

Southwestern College is a place where all students regardless of major can experience a wide range of musical opportunities and offerings. Music majors, minors, and non-majors receive a high quality of innovative individualized instruction from award-winning faculty who value life-long learning.

Three innovative degrees offer paths toward your future career in music. Through dynamic classroom environments, innovative curriculum and programing, technology, labs, faculty & student performances, leadership & internship opportunities, and faculty collaboration, music majors and minors have the opportunity to gain a holistic knowledge base and skills for a music career in the 21st century.

The Music Department nurtures intellectual development, aesthetic sensibility, and creativity through stimulating classroom and performance experiences to prepare students as professionals and advocates who cultivate the arts.

Southwestern College provides a values-based learning experience that emphasizes intellectual, personal, and spiritual growth. Founded in 1885 by Kansas Methodists and now related to the Great Plains Conference of the United Methodist Church, the college offers bachelor’s and graduate degrees on-ground and online.

Southwestern College has its roots in the tradition of the Methodist circuit riders, whose love of education helped shape the educational landscape of the 19th century. Founded in 1885 by the Southwest Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the college graduated its first class of three students June 3, 1889. The City of Winfield contributed resources to the original campus. In 1909 its name was changed from Southwest Kansas Conference College to Southwestern College, and in 1917 the school earned accreditation by the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges.