Sound Design Cirriculum

CURRICULUM - Sound Design

MFA: Sound Design Emphasis

First Semester	Hrs	Fourth Semester	Hrs
Thea 5521A Professional Sound Design Thea 476 Sound Technology Thea 5590I Dir Grad Studies: Adv Audio Recording Thea 5590FA Dir Grad Studies: Hard Disk Recording Thea 5500RA Theatre Collaboration	3 3 3 3 1	Thea 5521D Professional Sound Design Thea 5590I Dir Grad Studies: Adv Audio Recording Thea 5590FA Dir Grad Studies: Hard Disk Recording Thea 5590S Audio Art II	3 3 3 3
	13		12

Second Semester		Fifth Semester
Thea 5521B Professional Sound Design Thea 5590I Dir Grad Studies: Adv Audio Recording Thea 5590FA Dir Grad Studies: Hard Disk Recording Thea 5590S Audio Art I	3 3 3 3	Thea 5598R Research and Performance Elective: History, History of Design & Technology Or Music History, Elect Music, Music Comp	3 3 3
	12		9

Third Semester		Sixth Semester
Sound Design - Third Semester Thea 5521C Professional Sound Design Thea 5590I Dir Grad Studies: Adv Audio Recording Elective: History of Design & Technology Elective: History, Acoustics, Electronic Music	3 3 3 3	Thea 5697 Repertory Theatre: Residency Thea 5563 Text Analysis or Directing	6 3
	12		9

Total Sound Design Credits 67

Notes on Sound Design Emphasis

1) 521 Professional Sound Design is a sequence of design courses required of all major for all four semesters

2) 476 Sound Technology required of all majors, but some may be exempted from this introductory course

3) 590FA Hard Disk Recording required of all majors, will include Pro Tools III, Sound Designer, Audio-for-Video, MIDI, and Sampling

4) 590I Advanced Recording is required for four semesters and includes all location recording, multi-track recording and mixing

5) 12 credit hours minimum, 18 hours recommended of history. These courses include all graduate theatre history designations, History of Design & Technology sequence and Text Analysis sequence. Advanced dramatic literature courses in the English department may meet this requirement with approval of advisor. Other elective-type courses can be Electronic Music and Music Composition courses in the Conservatory, and Stage Directing.

6) 598 Research & Performance will entail several design projects directed by advisor

8) 697 Repertory theatre Residency will hopefully be a residency off campus in an area of your interest, or on-campus with Missouri Repertory theatre.

9) Non credit courses may include sitting in on undergraduate audio recording classes, enrolling in class piano, music history courses, acoustics.

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