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Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley State University is a four-year public university. It attracts nearly
25,000 students with high-quality programs and state-of-the-art facilities.
Grand Valley is a comprehensive university, serving students from all 83
Michigan counties and dozens of other states and foreign countries. Grand
Valley offers 82 undergraduate and 30 graduate degree programs from campuses
in Allendale, Grand Rapids, and Holland, and from regional centers in
Muskegon and Traverse City. The university is dedicated to individual student
achievement, going beyond the traditional classroom experience, with research
opportunities and business partnerships.
Department of Music and Dance
Grand Valley State University is an accredited institutional member of the
National Association of Schools of Music. Music and Dance is a department
within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a student-centered and diverse
learning community that engages in critical inquiry, extending knowledge to
enrich and enliven individual and public life. The Department of Music and
Dance offers curricula leading to the Bachelor of Arts in music, Bachelor of
Arts in dance, Bachelor of Music, and Bachelor of Music Education degrees.
These programs present professional training in the context of a broad and
liberal education.
Thirty-five full-time professors who are also performers, international competition
winners, conductors, composers, theorists, scholars, and acclaimed
teachers make up the core of Grand Valley’s Music and Dance faculty. They
are complemented by twenty-six adjunct faculty drawn from West Michigan’s
strong professional music and dance community. Our faculty provides a
unique and stimulating environment for music and dance study and performance.
To learn more, please visit www.gvsu.edu/music or www.gvsu.edu/dance
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