Central to the overall mission of Coastal Carolina University, the Department of Music cultivates and sustains a superior student-centered learning community where students, faculty and staff are mutually viewed as learners, performers and teachers. A commitment to excellence permeates all aspects of academic and extensive performance-related activities. The Department recruits and maintains an exceptional and diverse faculty, staff and undergraduate population while supporting those efforts as we work together to achieve institutional goals. Serving South Carolina and the mid-Atlantic region, the Department of Music, through the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, treats the study of music as an integral part of a liberal arts education. Our highest purpose is to empower our students with the knowledge, skills and core values that contribute to life-long learning in the arts and active citizenship in a democratic society and interdependent world. Through general education, musicianship and performance offerings, the baccalaureate program helps foster student ability to think reasonably and communicate as intelligently, effectively and creatively as possible.