音乐艺术副学士学位课程是一门综合性的学习课程，为学生提供了进入音乐或音乐相关领域的四年制学院，或在完成学业后进入音乐行业或相关领域的准备。Foothill的音乐系提供各种课程，以满足学生的不同兴趣和需求。除了综合音乐和历史/文学方面的核心课程外，该系还提供诸如“美国文化音乐”，“甲壳虫音乐”等课程。该系屡获殊荣的教师活跃于海湾地区以及整个美国的作曲家，作家，表演者，编曲家和出版商。该系在美国拥有一些最新，最全面的设施。我们的表演设施已经过全新翻新，我们的所有教室都配备了施坦威钢琴和/或顶级的扩声/多媒体传
The Associate in Arts degree in Music is a comprehensive course of study preparing the student to transfer to a four-year institution in music or a music related field, or to enter the music industry or a related field upon completion. Foothill's Music Department offers a wide variety of courses to satisfy the diverse interests and needs of its students. In addition to core courses in comprehensive musicianship and history/literature, the department also offers courses such as Music of American Cultures, the Music of the Beatles, and many others. The department's award-winning faculty are active as composers, authors, performers, arrangers, and publishers in the Bay Area and throughout the U.S. The department has some of the newest and most comprehensive facilities in the country. Our performance facilities have been newly renovated and all of our classrooms are equipped with Steinway pianos and/or top of the line sound reinforcement/multimedia delivery systems. The Interdisciplinary Electronic Arts Center has many new features such as a new media classroom with MIDI keyboard stations fully equipped with the latest in recording and sound production design.<br>Through the study of music history/literature, students examine music masterpieces from multiple eras and cultures, synthesizing information and making judgments as they evaluate how music reflects individual composers' lives, as well as the contemporary social/historical context in which the compositions were created and performed.<br>Through music theory/composition, students analyze the structure of music and learn to create their own original works satisfying specific and complex compositional requirements.<br>Through music performance, students learn how to apply and express their historical, theoretical, and artistic understandings in a presentation addressing an appropriate audience.<br>Using this three-lens framework, students increase their community/global consciousness as they learn to appreciate how music is a potent tool for understanding individual and cultural uniqueness within the larger context of our common humanity.<br>Career prospects in the music industry are diverse and abundant. With the advent of digital music delivery systems and alternative media, music is an integral part of the media revolution. Students have the opportunity to enter the industry in a variety of positions directly and indirectly related to this media revolution. Careers are not localized: due to the growth of new media and the communication available via the internet, opportunities exist in many locations.