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 Music has been a vibrant and successful program at Tennessee Tech since the institution was founded in 1915 as Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. Music classes were designed originally to provide bands, choirs, and orchestras for the engineers studying at TPI. However, a degree in music education was first offered in 1948 when a Department of Music was created within the College of Education, and today, music is one of Tennessee Technological University’s most renowned programs. An exceptional faculty of artist/teachers provides instruction on all band and orchestral instruments, piano, voice, organ, and guitar, and offers classroom instruction in music education, music theory and composition, music history, conducting, and music therapy. Faculty members provide leadership to professional music organizations in Tennessee and are frequent clinicians, adjudicators, and guest conductors nationally and internationally. The Department offers the Bachelor of Music degree with several options to fit the needs and interests of music students. Students seeking careers teaching music in the public schools select either the Instrumental Licensure or Vocal/General Licensure option depending upon their performance medium. For students who seek music careers other than public school teaching, options in composition, jazz studies, and instrumental, piano, and vocal performance are also offered within the Bachelor of Music degree.
Art majors at Tennessee Tech earn the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree while pursuing an emphasis in Art Education, Painting, or Fine Crafts. The concentration in Art Education prepares students for careers as art teachers in the public schools. The program for licensure in Art Education is designed to provide candidates with a broad liberal arts component, a program of professional studies, and a major in the teaching field. The Bachelor of Fine Arts concentration in Painting is designed to prepare the student to become a fine artist. The integration of studio and lecture courses in the curriculum as well as activities and enrichment opportunities encourages the skills and concepts essential to the student’s growth as an artist. Art students interested in Fine Crafts pursue studies both on the Tennessee Tech campus and at the Appalachian Center for Crafts, a 550-acre facility overlooking Center Hill Lake with extraordinary studio space for clay, fibers, metal, glass and wood. Administered through the Department of Music and Art, all the resources of Tennessee Tech University, the campus art faculty, and the nationally recognized artists of the Craft Center combine to provide Fine Craft concentration students a unique educational experience.
The Appalachian Center for Crafts offers students the opportunity to explore diverse options in contemporary professional craft studies. As a component of Tennessee Tech, degree-seeking students at the Craft Center earn the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in one of five concentrations in fine craft, including clay, fibers, glass, metals, and wood. Craft Center students attend general education and art foundations courses on the Tennessee Tech University campus, while classes in the fine craft concentration areas take place in the high quality studios of the Craft Center. The Craft Center faculty is comprised of nationally and internationally renowned craft artists who are active in exhibitions, workshop presentations, publishing, and professional craft organizations, in addition to their teaching and studio work
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