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Music Industry Studies

Our programs can teach you the business of music and how to properly capture and share your sound—and the sounds of others—with the world while still pushing you to sharpen your musical ability.

That way, no matter what area of the music industry you wish to pursue, you’ll be able to turn your passion into a career.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Music Industry Studies

Music Composition

Music speaks to everyone in a language unto itself. Expressing its technical and emotional power takes fluency in the art and science of composition.

The Music Composition program will give you the knowledge to share your musical
voice freely, clearly, and confidently.

You’ll develop fundamental knowledge—control of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form—and learn to articulate musical ideas through analog and digital synthesis, recording technologies, songwriting, and yes, jazz composition. (This is New Orleans, after all.)

Jazz Studies

So you want to study jazz? We don’t think there’s anything cooler.

Jazz is America’s smoothest and most daring contribution to the world’s musical lexicon. And we have the oldest program in New Orleans dedicated to the study of its history and performance.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Music: Jazz Studies

Spanish with Teacher's Certification

Sociology

Investigate the social world around you and use science to improve it.

Sociology is for you if you want to understand patterns of human behavior, problems, and institutions. Community engaged professors will give you the skills and analytical tools to learn about the things you really care about, so you can do something to improve the world around you.

Undergraduate Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

Religious Studies

The religions of the world have tremendous influence on the world’s communities and cultures.

Religions shape every aspect of life including political and economic policies, human rights, literature, art, and the environment. At Loyola, you will explore the past, present, and emerging future of these religions. You will examine what people believe, why they believe it, and how their beliefs form private and public lives.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies

Psychological Sciences

Also available online.

If the human brain and behavior fascinates you, Psychological Sciences might be the program for you.

You want to understand how the human mind thinks and learns, and how it processes decisions and perceptions. And you want to use that knowledge to ​help others. Whatever your goals, our program and expert faculty will prepare for success in research, continued study, and a career.​

Political Science

Because the effects of politics are so immediately felt, political science is a field that’s often dramatized.

But popular entertainment dramas often miss the importance of a deeper understanding of politics and political power—how it is acquired and how organized governments use it. Political Science analyzes systems of government, ranging from cities to contemporary nation-states, as well as the theory and practice of politics and the resultant distribution of power and resources.