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Nov 22, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog
Audio Production, BA
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Creatio Center for Technology, Media and Design |
| Academic Awards |
Bachelor of Arts |
| Credits Required |
122 Semester Credits |
| Faculty Lead |
Steve Smith |
| CIP Code |
10.0203 |
Degree Requirements
Audio Production or Audio Engineering professionals are the experts in designing, recording, mixing, editing, setting up the environment and producing movies, live shows, or video games. It involves technical and engineering talent as well as artistic and design skills. The goal of this program is to train the future leaders and technical specialists with the expertise and experience needed to become leaders in these fields, and it will also provide the cornerstone classes for other media arts degree programs.
Graduates with a degree in Audio Production will be able to:
- Apply the interactive approach of “design thinking” methods to develop solutions to complex problems.
- Apply recording technology as producers of both live and studio recording events.
- Evaluate the acoustical quality of both outdoor and indoor venues.
- Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively in groups to produce finished projects.
- Produce live audio events for indoor and outdoor venues with professional quality sound.
- Produce finished recorded audio works with professional quality sound.
- Articulate how their faith informs their work in the field of Audio Production and Engineering.
Specific employment opportunities for graduates with this degree include:
- Audio Engineer
- Audio Producer
- Broadcast Engineer
- Sound Designer
- Audio Editor
- Video Game Sound Engineer
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Core Curriculum Requirements: 57
Written and Verbal Communications: 9
Humanities: 9
6 credits in this area must be from Writing Practice courses* (see Course Descriptions for applicability)
- ENGL xxx3 Any Literature course 3 credits
- HIST xxx3 Any Course in History 3 credits
- 3 additional credits selected from the following 3 credits
- Art (ARTE), Bible (BIBL), Drama (DRAM), English (ENGL), History (HIST), Language (LANG), Music (MUSI), or Theology (THEO)
Social Sciences: 9
6 credits in this area must be from Writing Practice courses* (see Course Descriptions for applicability)
- Select a minimum of two disciplines from the following: 9 credits
- Business Administration (BUSM), Communication (except COMM 1213), Economics, Education (EDUC), Exercise Science (EXSC), Geography (GEOG), Information Technology (INTC), Management (BMGT), Marketing (BMKT), Philosophy (PHIL), Political Science (PSCI), Psychology (PSYC), Sociology/Anthropology (SOCI), or User Experience Design (UXDE)
Science and Mathematics: 7
- MATH xxxx - College-level Mathematics 3 credits
- SCIE xxxx - Science course with Lab 4 credits
Professional Readiness: 2
Two Core Curriculum elective credits are required to be Career Readiness credits. These credits can be earned by taking a combination of Career Readiness Courses and introductory internship and/or job shadowing experiences.
- This two-credit requirement is waived for students who transfer 57 or more credits to NU
- Students with 44-56 transfer credits are required to take one Career Readiness credit
Core Electives: 6
Select any college-level courses
Pre-Major Recommendations: 3
These courses are strongly recommended and may be applied to the Core Curriculum requirements or General Electives
Lower-Level Foundation Courses: 9
Major Course Requirements: 37
General Electives: 19
The following course is recommended:
Total: 122 Semester Credits
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