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  • 4.00 Credits

    Students learn basic conducting patterns, control of tempo, dynamics, and attack and release, and are introduced to score reading and the difference between choral and instrumental conducting techniques. Prerequisite: Any 200-level music course or permission of the instructor.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Music Marketing and Promotion is for students currently involved in, or thinking about getting involved in, selling music to the listening public. Lectures and projects analyze the steps involved in planning and carrying out a complete music marketing program, including packaging, pricing, store-based distribution, direct marketing, promotion, live performing and managing the entire process.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course is designed for aspiring musicians who want to pursue a record deal for their original music. Students learn the structure of a record company and are guided through the musical and business process of making and submitting a demo, getting a publishing and label deal, and compiling a press kit.
  • 4.00 Credits

    How does the manager help the artist succeed in the music business? Through contacts and an insight into the music industry; by being prepared, realistic, flexible and persistent; and by having a strategy for the artist to make his or her own opportunities. This course introduces students to the dynamic world of music management by exploring contracts, legal issues, marketing of the artist, record companies, touring, merchandising, endorsements and sponsorships. Students are expected to manage a band/artist (either their own or someone else's), submit a project management proposal, and show proof that the objectives outlined in the proposal were completed. Music business concentration credit. Does not satisfy general studies fine arts requirement.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course serves as a foundation for later studies in entertainment and business law. Its purpose it to help "demystify" the music business and complex body of law which shapes it. In addition, the course covers various ethical issues, such as music piracy and bootlegging, copyright infringement, breach of contract and the exploitation artists. The course suggests ways in which artists can protect themselves by arming themselves with knowledge and proper representation. The course conclude with students analyzing an exclusive recording agreement.
  • 4.00 Credits

    The music business seminar is a practical, off-campus work experience that requires students to participate in daily operations of a music business career. A minimum of 11 on-site hours per week is required. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. This course does not satisfy the general studies fine arts requirement.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A survey of basic properties of light, diffraction, holography, interference, imaging and applications to modern technology including telescopes, lasers, CDs, fiber optics and optical data storage. This course satisfies the general studies lab science requirement. Three hour lecture and three-hour laboratory per week.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of optical instruments and their use, including first-order Gaussian optics and thin-lens system layout. Lectures and laboratory exercises examine photometrics theory applied to optical systems such as the eye, magnifier and microscope, matrix optics and the nature of Seidel aberrations. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week. Prerequisite: MAT 107
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course covers complex representation of waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing and holography. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course includes fundamentals and applications of laser systems, such as optical amplification, cavity design, beam propagation and modulation. Emphasis is placed on developing the basic principles needed to design new systems, as well as an understanding of the operation of those currently in use. Prerequisites: OPT 261 and 323, MAT 302 recommended
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