Audio Production Technologies - CCL
Major: 5334
Effective Term: 2009 Fall Final Term: Current
Award: CCL
Total Credits: 39
Description:
The Certificate of Completion (CCL) in Audio Production Technologies certificate and degree program offers students an opportunity to receive training on industry-standard equipment by instructors with real-world experience and professional resumes. Students learn the concepts and theory associated with recording arts technologies while applying them in lab settings appropriate to their skill levels. Students completing the Audio Production program will gain the knowledge base, competency, and confidence they need to enter the commercial music marketplace.
Program Notes:
Students must earn a grade of "C" or better in all courses within the program.
+ indicates course has prerequisite and/or corequisites.
+ indicates course has prerequisite and/or corequisites.
Admission Criteria:
None
Program Prerequisites: None
| Credits: 39 | |||
| MTC101 | Introduction to Music Theory | 3 | |
| MTC103 | Introduction to Aural Perception | 2 | |
| MTC180 | Computer Literacy for Musicians (3) OR | ||
| + | MUC295 | Studio Music Recording III (3) | 3 |
| MTC191 | Electronic Music I | 3 | |
| + | MTC192 | Electronic Music II | 3 |
| MUC109 | Music Business: Merchandising and the Law | 3 | |
| MUC110 | Music Business: Recording and Mass Media | 3 | |
| + | MUC111 | Digital Audio Workstation I (DAW I) | 3 |
| + | MUC112 | Digital Audio Workstation II (DAW II) | 3 |
| MUC195 | Studio Music Recording I (3) OR | ||
| MUC195AA | Studio Music Recording I (3) | 3 | |
| + | MUC196 | Studio Music Recording II | 3 |
| MUC197 | Live Sound Reinforcement I | 3 | |
| + | MUC198 | Live Sound Reinforcement II | 3 |
| + | MUC297AA | Music Internship | 1 |
Program Competencies
- Apply music notation including pitch, meter, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, time signatures, and rhythm. (MTC101)
- Apply aural skills necessary to hear relationships of intervals, rhythms, melody, and harmony in music. (MTC103)
- Apply basic computer literacy skills, including generic applications and music-specific programs with hands-on experience. (MTC180, MTC191, MTC192, MUC295)
- Apply commercial music and sound design techniques, using digital audio workstations and desktop music production system. (MTC191, MTC192)
- Follow the procedures to copyright a song, publish it, and select an appropriate performance rights agency. (MUC109, MUC110)
- Locate and use different levels of music industry professionals including entertainment attorneys, managers, agents, and concert promoters. (MUC109, MUC110)
- Market musical products in such areas as music arranging/composing, score preparation, recording technology, audio engineering, postproduction for film and television, and the advertising industry. (MUC109, MUC110)
- Apply pro tools editing and recording using the digidesign pro tools LE package. (MUC111, MUC112)
- Use recording studio components: speakers, signal processing equipment and electronic keyboards and MIDI equipment in a studio recording session. (MUC195, MUC195AA, MUC196)
- Apply generic signals flow concepts for recording consoles in different recording studios. Use recording studio components: recording consoles, recorders, microphones, and signal processing equipment in a studio recording session with various musicians. (MUC195, MUC195AA, MUC196)
- Set up sound reinforcement systems for mixing live performances with various styles of music. Apply concepts of signal flow for concert sound and placement of consoles, loudspeaker arrangements and microphones. (MUC197, MUC198)
- Produce and engineer a recording project from pre-production through delivery of the final mix. (MUC195, MUC195AA)
- Integrate human relations, communication, and technical skills as an intern in an appropriate business or industry. (MUC297AA)
Additional information is available at MCCCD's Center for Curriculum and Transfer Articulation.
All information published is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, but based on the dynamic nature of the curricular process, course and program information is subject to change.
Please refer to the Official MCCCD CCTA website for official programs information.
