Community & Student Engagement

USC School of Music students and faculty engage in curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular public education and outreach. Short-term projects with community partners such as the Lourie Center, the South Carolina Department of Corrections, and Oliver Gospel Mission provide further opportunities to meet community needs through music.

Programs of Study

Students interested in using their music skills to effectively serve their communities can choose a Master’s degree in Performance with a concentration in Community Engagement or add a Community Engagement minor outside the doctoral major.

Degrees

Music students a concentration in community engagement work on individual or group projects in the community.

Students and faculty helped new mothers at Camille Graham Correctional Institution write lullabies to their babies.

The Lullaby Project

Students and faculty used music as a tool to connect new mothers at Camille Graham Correctional Institution with their babies through The Lullaby Project, an initiative of Carnegie Hall and its Weill Music Institute.

Bridging Our Distances

The USC School of Music community responded to social and cultural challenges with an initiative, Bridging Our Distances, to reinvigorate our purpose as artist-citizens within and beyond the concert hall during the 2021 COVID pandemic.

Initiative

Students performed a socially-distanced concert on the USC Horseshoe during the 2020 pandemic to bring music to the community.

Study

Music for the Public Good