Surveys existing literature and research in science, technology, and pedagogy of recording arts. Extensive use of available resources in library, electronic and print, trade and scientific publications are explored. Use of computer applications for research and publication are developed. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

In preparation for their thesis/portfolio, students learn research techniques by: applying skills from MSRA 5000, learning research design, performing research, interpreting results, and writing. Students will discover opportunities to add to the body of audio literature and recording techniques. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

This course will give students an overview of the function of sound and music for video games including: history, sound engines, types of audio utilized, stereo and surround sound localization, music capabilities of hardware configurations and future trends in sound for video games. Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Typically Offered: Fall.

Course is a continuation of Sound and Music for Video Games. Topics of study include non-linear music composition and implementation, advanced sound design techniques, optimization, and hands-on experience with modern game engines and game audio engines. Prereq: MSRA 5125. Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MSRA 5125. Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media.

Typically Offered: Fall.

Interdisciplinary course on acoustic ecology, sound art, and music technology. Through deep listening, compassionate listening, soundwalking, and interactive music controlled by motion capture, the unifying theme of this course is an engagement with sonic awareness, environment, and self-exploration. Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media. Cross-listed with MUSC 4360. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

This course is designed to take a deeper dive into music, electronic music, as well as perceptions of music. Students will be able to create generative compositions, single sample- based compositions, a performative electronic composition, and incorporate multimedia elements into their compositions. Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media. Cross-listed with MUSC 4380. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Selected topical subjects to include live or studio sound recording, sound reinforcement, new technologies or practices in the audio industry. Repeatable. Max Hours: 9 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Reviews all aspects of audio synchronized with picture, including music, sound effects, narration, and dialog replacement. Topics studied with respect to film, video and multi-media. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

Selected topical subjects to include live or studio sound recording, sound reinforcement, new technologies or practices in the audio industry. Max hours: 9 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This survey of the history of songs in 20th-century film will acquaint aspiring filmmakers and musicians with songs from 1927 - 1999 and will include songs written for films, songs licensed for films, and songs in musical feature films. Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media. Cross-listed with MUSC 3520. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course explores human-computer interaction in music composition and performance. Students will learn to program and use open-source hardware to build novel and creative musical interfaces and instruments. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate Students. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Graduate level students.

This course focuses on the basic elements of sound reinforcement: acoustics, equalization, equipment and mixing techniques. The major emphasis is the production of the final sonic product. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Techniques for recording sound effects in the field and recording Foley in the studio. Use of library effects. Use of mixing techniques and plug-ins to create more complex sounds. Cross-listed with MUSC 4535. Prereq: MSRA 5505. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MSRA 5505.

Music editing for film and television. Spotting notes, temp tracks, cue sheets, scoring session management, dubbing stage fixes, and Performing Rights Artists notes. Cross-listed with MUSC 3545. Prereq: MSRA 5505. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MSRA 5505.

Advanced studies in sound recording and reinforcement, aesthetics and techniques of multi-track analog and digital recording and stereo imaging. Team lab recording projects. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Dialogue editing and mixing for film and television. Recording Voiceover, Automated Dialogue Replacement, Group ADR, Efforts. Noise-reduction, mix levels, compression, limiting, EQ and use of reflected sound. Cross-listed with MUSC 3555. Prereq: MSRA 5505. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MSRA 5505.

A study and practice of the art of mastering. Topics covered include: history, monitoring, signal flow, metering, jitter, audio restoration, limiting, creating a CD pre-master, & mastering for new media. Students will get practical experience mastering their own projects. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Techniques for mixing dialogue, ADR, music, sound effects, background ambiences and Foley. Different level standards and deliverables. Cross-listed with MUSC 4545. Prereq: MSRA 5535 or MSRA 5555. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: MSRA 5535 or MSRA 5555.

This lecture-lab course deals with surround sound in film, digital TV and DVD's. Topics include monitoring, microphone techniques, recording, mixing, mastering, delivery formats and psychoacoustics. Students work on two lab projects in the semester. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Students will work on advanced surround sound projects and study mixing aesthetics, high-definition technology and authoring. Students will have advanced knowledge of these topics and produce professional, competitive material for their demo. Prereq: MSRA 5550, 5575 and 5505, or permission of instructor. Max hours: 4 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Faculty and majors of the music engineering program assemble to discuss and demonstrate issues of artistic and technical applications of recording technology. Student projects, faculty, and guest lectures provide topical focus. Repeatable. Max hours: 6 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Capstone project based course in which students complete professional quality projects in music production and/or post production. Students refine their engineering skills and develop new skills required for integration in the music industry such as portfolio design and resume development. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Deals with advanced audio skills for music recording, including technical and artistic considerations. This is a required course for the MSRA degree. Max hours: 4 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Various topics relating to the study of music performance, music technology and music business. Repeatable. Max Hours: 9 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Studies the general principles and applications of digital music technology, emphasizing the function and operation of specific computer software. Topics include digital audio workstations, MIDI sequencers, digital signal processing programs, and distribution on optical discs and computer-based mediums. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Allows graduate students to pursue in-depth study of an audio-related topic, to be discussed with and approved by the Graduate Advisor. A final report or other tangible results will be determined on a case- by-case basis. Repeatable. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Master of Science in Recording Arts Internship. Restrictions: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media. Repeatable. Max hours: 6 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Students learn concepts through the application of techniques related to audio enhancement, digital media authentication, acoustic analysis, and automatic speaker recognition. The acquisition and analysis of digital evidence applying reliable methods prepares students for forensic audio analysis in the laboratory. Coreq: MSRA 6254 and admittance to Certification in Forensic Audio Analysis Program required. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Coreq: MSRA 6254

Students learn concepts through the application of techniques related to forensic video collection and image enhancement, authentication, photogrammetry, and comparison. The acquisition and analysis of digital evidence applying reliable methods prepares students for working on forensic imagery in the laboratory. Coreq: MSRA 6264 and admittance to Certification in Forensic Video and Image Analysis Program required. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Coreq: MSRA 6264

Advanced application of MATLAB for the forensic analysis of audio will be presented including file access, FFT and waveform plotting, and signal detection. Through the exploration of correlation and using mean quadratic difference students will be prepared for media authentication. Coreq: MSRA 6214 and admittance to Certification in Forensic Audio Analysis Program required. Max hours: 1 Credit.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Coreq: MSRA 6214

Advanced application of MATLAB for the forensic analysis of images will be presented covering image processing and analysis techniques. Through exploring analyses such as Photo Response Non-Uniformity and the Bi-Dimensional DFT, students are prepared for image authenticity examinations. Coreq: MSRA 6224 and admittance to Certification in Forensic Video and Image Analysis Program required. Max hours: 1 Credit.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Coreq: MSRA 6224

Surveys available resources for audio education. Interdisciplinary materials in physics, acoustics, engineering, music, broadcast, medicine, psychology, multi-media, theater, and film or video are reviewed. Emphasis on design and development of new methods and materials are pursued. (MSRA graduate students only.) Prereq: MUSC 5000. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

Deals with designing sound for live theater, film, video, television, theme parks, games and soundscapes. Focuses on using technology to achieve specific esthetic aspects of audio production. This is accomplished through lectures, listening assignments, research and lab practice. (For graduate students only.) Max hours: 4 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

With the guidance of a thesis advisor, each candidate for the MSRA degree select an approved topic for scholarly review, research and publication. The approved materials are evaluated for written and oral defense. Prereq: MUSC 5000, 5590, 6510, 6580, 6530. Max hours: 4 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media

With the guidance of a portfolio advisor, each candidate for the MSRA degree produce specified documentation and audio materials that reflect the career intentions of the candidate. A completed "Show kit" or professional "Demo" of the candidate's specialty are produced. The approved materials are evaluated for written, audio and oral defense. Max hours: 4 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Restriction: Restricted to RCDA-MS majors within the College of Arts and Media