The Music Industry Certificate Program is designed to provide interested parties with training that will enable them to become successful entrepreneurs in the Music Business as Audio Engineers or Music Business Entrepreneurs. The successful Music Industry Certificate student will not only graduate with the ability to create and maintain a successful music business, they will have studied key music marketing principles and practices; patent, copyright, and trade law secrets which include patent protection for software and business methods. Students will be exposed to industry standards for digital audio recording methods, mixing equalization, and dynamic processing that includes acoustics for both studio and live sound installations. Participants will learn how to record and mix audio and audio-visual productions, and will learn how to produce distributable multi-channel surround sound products through mastering, mixing, and encoding.
The Music Industry Certificate Program provides interested students with the opportunity to become proficient through one of two distinct Music Industry study tracks: Audio Engineering or Music Business. The Music Industry Certificate program will require twelve credit hours of instruction. Program participants will all take the required MUS 110 Business of Music course, followed by any three 3-credit courses in one of the two tracks.
Audio Engineering
MUS 125 Beginning Music Recording Workshop
MUS 250 Music Recoding Theory and Techniques
MUS 215 Music Mixing Workshop
MUS 217 Professional Tools: Digital Recording Techniques
Music Business
MUS 252 Music Industry Marketing Principles and Applications
MUS 254 Intellectual Property Rights
MUS 315 Music Economics and Global Business
