Audio Engineering, Minor
Tom Sullivan, Director and Faculty Advisor
Minor in Audio Engineering
Overview
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 prerequisite 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.
Course Requirements
Minimum units required for minor:73-79 units
The student must have taken the appropriate prerequisite courses for the listed courses.
Prerequisite Courses0-3 units
Beginning Piano is required of students who do not pass a piano proficiency test.
| Units | ||
| 57-103 | Elective Studio (Beginning Piano Class) | 3 |
| 57-104 | Elective Studio (Beginning Piano Class) | 3 |
| 57-121 | Elective Studio (Piano) | Var. |
| 57-329 | Beginning Piano for Minors | 3 |
| 57-330 | Beginning Piano for Minors II | 3 |
Music Courses43-49 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.
| Required Music Courses: | Units | |
| 57-101 | Introduction to Music Technology | 6 |
| or 57-171 | Introduction to Music Technology (Self-Paced) | |
| 57-149 | Basic Harmony I | 9 |
| or 57-152 | Harmony I | |
| 57-173 | Survey of Western Music History * | 9 |
| 57-188 | Repertoire and Listening for Musicians | 1 |
| 57-337 | Sound Recording | 6 |
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co-requisite 57-188.
| Choose two Music Tech Electives: | Units | |
| 15-322 | Introduction to Computer Music | 9 |
| 57-338 | Sound Editing and Mastering | 6 |
| 57-347 | Electronic and Computer Music | 6 |
| 57-438 | Multitrack Recording | 9 |
Technical Courses33 units
Other courses may be taken with the approval of the Audio Engineering Minor Advisor.
| Required Technical Courses: | Units | |
| 33-114 | Physics of Musical Sound | 9 |
| 18-490 | Electroacoustics ** | 12 |
| Choose one Technical course: | Units | |
| 18-300 | Fundamentals of Electromagnetics | 12 |
| 18-341 | Logic Design and Verification | 12 |
| 18-370 | Fundamentals of Control | 12 |
| 18-491 | Digital Signal Processing | 12 |
| 15-210 | Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms | 12 |
| 15-214 | Principles of Software Construction: Objects, Design, and Concurrency | 12 |
| 18-320 | Microelectronic Circuits + | 12 |
| 18-349 | Introduction to Embedded Systems *** | 12 |