Minor in Audio Engineering
This sequence is for candidates who are engineering majors with interest in and/or have background in music, recording, sound-editing and/or other music technology areas; or majors from any discipline in the university who have the above interests and who can meet the pre-requisite requirements for the engineering courses in the minor.
Note: Students who do not have the requisite engineering/science/math background should investigate the Minor in Music Technology offered by the School of Music.
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Course Requirements
The student must have taken the appropriate pre-requisite courses for the listed courses.
Prerequisite Courses, 0/3 units
Beginning Piano is required of students who do not pass a piano proficiency test.
57-103 Beginning Piano, 3 units
Music Courses, 40/43 units
Basic Harmony I is required of students who do not qualify for entrance into Harmony I, based on their scores on the theory placement test.
57-149 Basic Harmony I or 57-152 Harmony I, 6 units
57-173 Survey of Western Music History (co-req 57-188), 9 units
57-188 Repertoire and Listening for Musicians, 1 unit
57-101 Introduction to Music Technology, 6 units
57-337 Sound Recording I, 6 units
(choose two of the courses below)
57-347 Electronic and Computer Music, 6 units
57-338 Sound Editing and Production, 6 units
57-438 MultiTrack Recording, 9 units
Technical Courses, 33 units
Other courses may be taken with the approval of the advisor for engineering minors.
33-114 Physics of Musical Sound, 9 units
18-493 Electro-Acoustics (pre-reqs 18-220 and 18-290), 12 units
(choose one of the courses below)
18-491 Digital Signal Processing (pre-req 18-290), 12 units
18-551 Sig. Proc. System Design (pre-req 18-290), 12 units
18-321 Anal. Design of Analog Ckts. (pre-req 18-220), 12 units
Units required for minor: 73/79
Note:
18-220: Electronic Devices and Analog Circuits
18-290: Signal and Information Processing