Music & Musicology

Vision:
 The Department of Music and Musicology aspires to achieve a distinguished local and regional position of distinction and excellence through the provision of scientific and cultural education in music and musicology. It also seeks to contribute to the richness and diversity of world music through performing and promoting music within and outside the university communit.

Mission
The Department of Music and Musicology is committed to academic excellence through the provision of a program that covers various branches in music including performance, musicology, and ethnomusicology and which both stimulates and prepares music students to develop their critical thinking as well as creative and artistic skills as teachers and performers.

Objectives
Provide students with high standard music education and training for careers in education sector and performance.
Provide students with opportunities to learn and to play eastern Arabic and western classical instruments.
Develop and contribute to the musical life of SQU and the community by presenting and sponsoring music performance events within and outside the university.
Inspire music students to utilize music in their communities as a mode of cross-cultural understanding