Oct 12, 2024  
2022-23 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-23 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Audio Production Minor


Recording Industry 
Advisor: Matt Foglia
Matt.Foglia@mtsu.edu
 

The Audio Production minor requires 15 hours. It is suited for majors in Music Business, Commercial Songwriting, Media Arts, Music (Music Industry), and Technical Theatre.  It is open to all majors pending approval.

Students must maintain a 2.00 average in the Audio Production minor.

See course suggestions  for studio production and engineering (music), electronic music (EM), sound reinforcement (live sound), and sound for picture tracks.

Required Courses (6 hours)


  • 3 credit hours *
  • 3 credit hours
  • *NOTE: RIM 3010 is required in the Music Business and Commercial Songwriting concentrations and cannot count in both the major and minor. Music Business and Commercial Songwriting majors will need to take an additional minor elective to earn 15 hours in the minor. (12 hours of minor electives instead of 9.)

    *RIM 3011 Survey of Audio Technology  cannot substitute for RIM 3010 and cannot count in the Audio Production minor or major.

NOTES:


*RIM 1230 Commercial Musicianship  can be taken as an elective by the Music Business and Commercial Songwriting concentrations, but cannot count in both the concentration and minor.

*Students who have taken MUTH 1110 Theory and Aural Skills I  cannot count RIM 1230  in the AP minor.

**Students who have taken MUTH 1120 Theory and Aural Skills II  or a more advanced music theory class cannot count RIM 3450  in the AP minor.

**RIM 4210 Desktop Music Production  cannot substitute for RIM 3300  in the AP minor or major.