Music Industry Program
Courses
MIP 132 Survey of the Recording Industry 3.0 Credits
This course offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the Recording Industry plus an in-depth examination of the key changes that have affected the world of the Industry over the past 25 years. Marketing, Promotion, Branding, Music Streaming, Touring, Social Media development, and artist development will be covered.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP 133 Digital Audio Workstations I 3.0 Credits
This course will provide students with a basic understanding of Digital Audio Workstation theory and practice as it relates to content creation through Music Instruments Digital Interface ( M.I.D.I.) sequencing. In addition to M.I.D.I. sequencing, students will be introduced to editing, and mixing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP 161 Copyrights in the Music Industry 3.0 Credits
This course is an in-depth exploration of what, how, when and where intellectual property exists in the music industry, with a particular emphasis on the role that copyrights play.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP 170 Radio Management 3.0 Credits
Students learn about the growth and development of radio through the 20th century to today, including current challenges and new technologies, programming and marketing techniques, payola, organizational structure, corporate consolidation, the F.C.C., podcasting, satellite, and internet radio. Students also create their own radio stations and formats.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
MIP 179 Introduction to Sound Recording 2.0 Credits
Introduces the art of sound recording, including fundamentals of sound, sound capture, acoustic environment, recording devices, and the recording studio. Stakeholders, such as engineers, producers, and technicians are discussed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Corequisite: MIP 227
MIP 227 Listening Techniques 1.0 Credit
Students will develop critical listening skills needed for all aspects of music production including commercial arranging, tracking, and mixing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Corequisite: MIP 179
MIP 233 Digital Audio Workstations II 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on Digital Audio Workstation techniques used in modern audio production. This course will provide students with a basic understanding of Digital Audio Workstation theory of operation, system setup and troubleshooting, audio recording, editing, and “in the box” mixing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 133 [Min Grade: C]
MIP 263 Media Promotion 3.0 Credits
Students learn about the procedures and mechanisms used to promote music and music-related content through various media forms, primarily radio and video, and through any new media forms recently or futuristically discovered.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is EAM or major is MUSI.
MIP 270 Live Music Industry 3.0 Credits
Course examines the basic concepts, key terms and roles of all essential players for both the venue management and touring and concert promotion industry and the relationships between venues, booking agents, tour managers and media.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP 276 Sound Recording for Business Concentration 3.0 Credits
Sound recording techniques are presented to provide Music Industry Business Concentration students with basic recording competency through practical application. Students are required to create several recordings through projects that require teamwork and self-analysis.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 179 [Min Grade: C]
MIP 279 Sound Recording I 3.0 Credits
Basic sound recording procedures are presented with an emphasis on microphone techniques, signal-flow, and session workflow. Requires students to create several multitrack recordings, including editing and mixing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: MIP 233 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 293 [WI] Survey of Music Production 3.0 Credits
This course analyzes various music recordings, including the genres of jazz, pop, R&B, and rock, from the modern recording era (1930’s to the present) and discusses the production techniques used to create them.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP 318 Music Merchandising 3.0 Credits
Students work in interdisciplinary groups with Design and Merchandising students to create a comprehensive merchandise extension program including product selection, production, distribution and promotion within the context of the artists' overall brand package.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
MIP 331 Music Venues and Concerts 3.0 Credits
Students will learn how to operate a music venue by learning how to book talent, market and promote, staff and hire personnel, create visibility, establish a long-term vision for the music venue.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP 333 Digital Audio Workstations III 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on advanced Digital Audio Workstation techniques used in modern recording production with an emphasis on audio editing. Sound replacement, pitch correction, alignment, audio quantization, and editing proficiency are covered.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 233 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 336 Contracts and Legal Issues in the Music Industry 3.0 Credits
This course explores contractual agreements and the legal issues affecting the music industry today, such as free speech in radio and music lyrics, rights of publicity for recording artists, fair use and piracy, as well as the various standard agreements in common use in the music and recording industries.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 161 [Min Grade: D] and BLAW 201 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 338 Audio Seminar 2.0 Credits
Students present Extra Curricular recording projects to the instructor and fellow students for an in-class critique. The in-class critique will give the student direct feedback on their creative work and allow them to compare their work against the work of their peers. The production critiques will be moderated by the instructor and grades will be assessed based on in-class participation and presentations.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 1 times for 4 credits
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 379 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 341 Touring and Booking 3.0 Credits
Educates student about the Live Performance revenue stream in the music industry, encompassing tour management, tour planning and implementation, concert promotion agreements, insurance issues and revenue breakdowns.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP 350 Artist Development 3.0 Credits
This course introduces concepts including what an A&R rep does, historically and today; artist development in the major label and independent markets; and A&R methods using industry data.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
MIP 358 Electronic Music Production 3.0 Credits
This course is a holistic approach to electronic music production through the study of its history and hands on digital audio workstations techniques.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: MIP 233 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 361 Music Publishing 3.0 Credits
This course explores the fundamental responsibilities of a music publisher including reviewing, evaluating, marketing, licensing, monetizing, representing and protecting original music, as well as the rights of songwriters and related content creators. Students will discover how music publishing is a crucial element of support in a thriving music industry and will learn how music publishers build value for their creative clients.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 161 [Min Grade: C]
MIP 365 Cities of Music and Culture 3.0 Credits
This course is designed to give students an introductory insight and understanding of the music industry in the chosen location of the class. This class is a Study Tour.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
MIP 366 Music Supervision 3.0 Credits
Students will be introduced to the creative and administrative elements of music supervision including sourcing, evaluating, licensing, and placing music into visual productions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 161 [Min Grade: D] or MIP 361 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 374 Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry 3.0 Credits
Students will learn how to devise, conceive, create and implement a music industry-related business through the drafting of a business plan. This course is team-driven and will involve student discussions and critique.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP 375 [WI] Marketing and Promo in Music Industry 3.0 Credits
This course is designed for students to understand marketing & promotion in the music industry and provide insight into the concepts of marketing and the tactics employed by labels, independent agents, and artists in the marketplace. Students will acquire the skills to assemble comprehensive, integrated marketing strategies that accompany a successful marketing campaign.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 132 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 376 MAD Dragon Music Group 3.0 Credits
MAD Dragon Music Group is designed to immerse students in the world of the independent music business and includes all of the professor led, student operated enterprises that create, organize and administer MAD Dragon Music Group projects.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 9 credits
Prerequisites: MIP 132 [Min Grade: C]
MIP 379 Sound Recording II 3.0 Credits
An advanced examination of current state of the art sound recording techniques. Special attention is paid to concert recording, digital and analog mixing techniques, advanced compression and equalization techniques, and time-based processing. Research methods in sound are introduced.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI and classification is Junior or Pre-Junior or Senior.
Prerequisites: MIP 279 [Min Grade: C]
MIP 381 Audio for Video 3.0 Credits
This course will introduce the student to the technological and creative aspects of creating post-production audio for visual media.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 233 [Min Grade: D] and MIP 279 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 382 Scoring to Picture 3.0 Credits
This course will expand the students' ability to create and produce an original score for an audio/visual element, drawing upon their creative and technological skills.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
MIP 384 Synthesis and Sampling 3.0 Credits
This is an advanced course focusing on the theory and operation of hardware and virtual synthesizers and digital audio samplers. Students learn how to identify and manipulate the various parameters of synthesis and sampling devices.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 133 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 386 Commercial Music Production 3.0 Credits
An examination of the various ways that music is composed and used in television advertising, industries, trailers/promos for film, television, and radio, including bumpers and station ids.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 381 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 387 Studio Maintenance 3.0 Credits
Introduces the student to basic maintenance and troubleshooting techniques used in the modern recording studio. Basic electronic components, cabling, soldering skills, audio measurements, and equipment calibration are emphasized.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 279 [Min Grade: C]
MIP 388 Music and Audio Freelancing 2.0 Credits
Students will gain an understanding of how to prepare for and develop a career as a freelancer in the music and/or audio industries. They will learn how to develop career goals and a plan of action, create a basic professional website, and learn the basic financial, business, and marketing practices of a freelancer.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman or Sophomore
MIP 389 Sound Reinforcement 3.0 Credits
This course covers all aspects of sound reinforcement for live performances, including system design, equipment usage, and acoustical concerns. The course uses both lecture and hands-on components for greater student understanding.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
MIP 390 Video Game Music and Audio 3.0 Credits
The objective of this course is to give students a well-rounded understanding of the state of contemporary video game music and audio; how the game development process works; the evolution of game audio, and how to approach the creation of video game music and audio.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
MIP 391 Analog Recording 3.0 Credits
This class enables students to practice the art of analog recording, editing and mixing. It puts in perspective the concepts, tools, and techniques of studio production that can be taken for granted in the digital domain. The constraints and aesthetic choices that are magnified by the analog format are very important parts of a holistic music production curriculum.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI and classification is Junior or Senior.
Prerequisites: MIP 379 [Min Grade: C]
MIP 393 Advanced Sound Reinforcement 3.0 Credits
This course is an examination of current state-of-the-art sound reinforcement techniques. Special attention is paid to system design and optimization, digital mixing console operation, wireless systems, and concert recording.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: MIP 389 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 394 Big Data In The Music Industry 3.0 Credits
This course offers a comprehensive overview of collecting, analyzing, and understanding all aspects of Big Data research in the music industry. By intensive studies of the analytics of the data flow and how that information is used, this course will show students how to interpret the ebb and flow of the music business.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 132 [Min Grade: D] and STAT 201 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 395 Digital Revenue & Creative Destruction 3.0 Credits
Students will study the disruption, destruction and transformation of the music industry business model through the lens of entrepreneurial innovation in the post-Napster era. This course is team-driven and will involve extensive student discussions and critique.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman or Sophomore
MIP 396 Global Recording Business 3.0 Credits
This course is designed to give students a global perspective of the recording business. Students will research individual markets and compare and contrast them in order to evaluate business conditions and consider future economic prospects.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 132 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 426 Global Trends in the Music Industry 3.0 Credits
This course explores how the music, arts and entertainment industries operate and interact with a global perspective. Students will examine the unique attributes and different cultural and artistic components of global music industry centers with emphasis on "placemaking" factors, government-support models, economic landscape, market trends, chart history, deal types/income streams, hitmakers and moguls, and specific genres and styles emanating from around the world. Students will gain a greater understanding of how music, entertainment and various media platforms are perceived, supported and commoditized throughout the world.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: BLAW 201 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 433 Digital Audio Workstations IV 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on advanced Digital Audio Workstation techniques used in modern audio production. This course will explore trends in DAW technology and showcase emerging production techniques used in the creation of modern music.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 133 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 467 Artist Representation 3.0 Credits
Students will gain an historical perspective on the evolving role of the Manager from an entrepreneurial perspective. The class examines the core components that comprise an artist's professional team. The course will explore and analyze the central role that managers in particular, but also, attorneys, agents, business managers, services firms, record labels and other entities each play in representing, developing, and supervising the artist’s overall business and brand.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
MIP 468 Music Industry E-Commerce 3.0 Credits
This course explores the inner workings of commerce in the music industry as it occurs in the Internet. The student gains an understanding of how to market and promote websites, utilize social networking sites and how digital services for the industry can serve the label, artist and/or publishing company.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 132 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 477 Music Production 3.0 Credits
The students in this class learn contemporary music production techniques through a combination of lecture, demonstration and independent work.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 379 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 481 Mixing and Mastering 3.0 Credits
The art of mixing and mastering music are covered in depth. This is an advanced audio engineering course that will focus on the mixing and mastering process. Proper equipment usage, methods, formats, and production goals are covered.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
Prerequisites: MIP 379 [Min Grade: D]
MIP 491 Senior Project in Music Industry 3.0 Credits
Senior Project is a thesis course in which student groups engage over the three quarters of senior year in intensive research on a topic selected by a jury among individual proposals. The thesis will result in some form of publishable material. The student will present their thesis to a jury in their final quarter of senior year.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 12 credits
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI and classification is Senior.
MIP 495 Directed Studies in Music Industry 0.5-12.0 Credits
Provides supervised individual study of special topics in the music industry. Departmental permission required.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is MUSI.
MIP I199 Independent Study in Music Industry Program 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
MIP I299 Independent Study in Music Industry Program 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
MIP I399 Independent Study in Music Industry Program 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
MIP I499 Independent Study in Music Industry Program 0.5-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
MIP T180 Special Topics in Music Industry Program 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
MIP T280 Special Topics in Music Industry Program 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
MIP T380 Special Topics in Music Industry Program 0.5-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
MIP T480 Special Topics in Music Industry Program 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
