This Music Composition program at?the University of West Georgia?is designed for those students who wish to become composers or who wish to pursue graduate study and seek teaching positions in higher education.

In addition to the specific degree programs, students find enrichment through concerts, recitals, workshops, and master classes by visiting performers and scholars and the department's full-time and part-time faculty. The State University of West Georgia is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).

• Demonstrate competence in the principal applied performance area, utilizing technical skills requisite for self-expression, and including a representative body of literature.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the common elements of music and their interaction, and the ability to employ this understanding in aural, verbal, and visual analyses.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to work with music of diverse cultural sources, historical periods, and media.
• Demonstrate achievement of the hightest possible level of skill in the use of basic concepts, tools, techniques, and procedures to develop a compositions from concept to fully realized performances, involving a variety of media, styles, and forms.