爵士音乐研究课程将促进各种表演类型的专业技能的学习。它将通过合奏组提供动手制作小组音乐的经验，并提高以下领域的技能：音乐表演及其研究，音乐理论和作曲，一般音乐历史，尤其是爵士音乐历史，理论和应用键盘，乐器合唱指挥，理论和应用计算机技术，多轨录音和电影评分，理论和应用录音，图书馆和在线研究，对于音乐和娱乐业至关重要的技术和实践以及音乐作为一项业务。该程序在结构上是模块化的。学生根据他们的音乐需求选择音乐选修课，课程逐年增加，逐年增加。该结构为学生提供了满足计划要求的大量选择和灵活性。它支持初级音乐技能的发展
VIU's Bachelor of Music, Jazz Studies program is so much more than just music to your ears. The comprehensive jazz music program combines academic and performance studies with the latest recording studio technologies, music production and business strategies that arm you with elite skills to succeed in any and every facet of the music industry. The Jazz Studies program will foster the acquisition of professional skills in a variety of performance genres. It will offer hands-on experience of group music making through ensembles, and promote skills in the fields of: music performance and its study, musical theory and composition, music history in general and jazz music history in particular, theoretical and applied keyboarding, instrumental and choral conducting, theoretical and applied computer technology, multi-track recording and film scoring, theoretical and applied sound recording, library and on-line research, techniques and practices fundamental to the music and entertainment industries, and music as a business.