AUD 110: Audio Foundations
This course introduces students to the industry standards of digital audio concepts. Topics include file types, compression, codecs, recording media, and digital audio theory.
AUD 120: Digital Audio Workstations I
This course introduces the foundational skills needed to function within a digital audio workstation environment at a basic level for music production.
AUD 220: Audio Video Show Design and Deployment
This course introduces students to the daily workflow for audio video technicians, including the use of order sheets, packing lists, diagnostics, audio/video equipment and servers, stage and network lighting, and overall logistical show deployment. Students will learn to create show design plans and develop skills for various styles of projection techniques.
AUD 230: Audio Recording Techniques
This course focuses on audio recording techniques, including microphone placement, proper gain stages, proper equalization and frequency balancing. The class will explore the field of audio engineering and production, including the fundamentals of compression, effects, and digital audio processing.
AUD 240: Sound Design
The course introduces students to the field of sound design for games and film. Students will capture, create, and synthesize sounds to create moods and feelings that connect to atmospheric environments, specific characters, movement, and actions. Students will also create a catalog of sounds for sound design and understand sound design file management.
AUD 250: Postproduction
This course introduces and develops skills in the workflow and processing techniques for audio synced with video. Students will apply noise reduction, frequency processing, dynamic processing, and basic mix techniques to ensure various audio components blend and align with video.
AUD 260: Mixing
This course builds upon the skills acquired in earlier courses and explores mixing in audio projects. Emphasis is placed on professional techniques to enhance quality delivery of audio material.
AUD 280: Live Sound Mixing
This course is designed to develop student understanding and skills in live sound concepts, basic design, and mixing for front of house and monitors. Students will create workflow processes for mixing various size live audio scenarios and demonstrate problem solving skills for live sound applications.
AUD 290: Studio Concentration I
This course concentrates on the practical skills needed to successfully produce, record, engineer, edit, and mix custom music work. The final product is required to be mixed and ready for distribution in accordance with industry standards at a base level.
AUD 310: Digital Composition and Sequencing
This class focuses on methods of writing and arranging music on the computer. Emphasis is on composition techniques and learning to write music of various styles.
AUD 320: Digital Audio Workstations II
This course introduces the skills needed to function within a digital audio workstation software environment at an advanced level. Students will develop software proficiency in specific digital audio workstation software.
AUD 330: Music Producing
This course references cumulative skills to develop students in the role of music producing. Students will take unpolished works and apply musical and production skills to create release-ready musical works.
AUD 340: Studio Concentration II
This course concentrates on the practical skills needed to successfully produce, record, engineer, edit, and mix a custom music work. The final product is required to be mixed and ready for distribution in accordance with industry standards at an intermediate level.
AUD 350: Commercial Recording Studio Operation and Techniques
This course teaches students techniques in operating a commercial recording facility, while managing tight deadlines, and providing quality production. Students will develop and manage budgets, production contract estimates, and facility operations to create audio production for various projects such as podcasts, commercials, TV, film, and streaming.
AUD 365: Advanced Mixing
This course will explore advanced stereo audio mixing techniques. The topics included are vocal comping, editing and production, advanced dynamics processing, advanced time-based processors and automation techniques.
AUD 390: Session Recording and Analog Production
This practical studio course focuses on session recording techniques. The class projects are centered on the recording of a band, small group, or solo artist, including planning, mic placement, signal routing, producing, recording, communicating clear direction, and file management.
AUD 460: Sound Dynamics and Mastering
This course further explores the concepts and techniques involved in dynamic processing and mastering. Materials covered concentrate on the technical aspects of creating a final mix and preparing it for mastering and mastering the final mix and preparing it for standards in streaming distribution. Use of industry standard software and hardware coupled with important critical listening skills are emphasized.
AUD 480: Entertainment Business
This course focuses on entertainment business, including music publishing, record labels, music copyright, marketing, public relations, live performance promotion, contracts, cash flows, industry campaigns, and trends in the industry, as well as other components of the music business.
AUD 485: Audio Production Project
The Audio Production Project integrates concepts and culminating skills to develop and execute a final recorded and mixed audio project using industry standard techniques. Projects will simulate a professional audio production environment.
BIO 200: Life Science
The study of life processes ecological factors and the plant and animal kingdoms; biological systems and their control; Human anatomy and physiology; Human Diseases, genetics, inheritance, and evolution; the cell as the basic unit of life.
BSM 150: Business Start-up Strategies
Students in this course are exposed to basic issues in starting a business. Topics may include capitalization, staffing, subcontracting, permits, facilities, and basic business planning. The course offers students practical exercises to begin strategic development of a business and offers practical problems and issues in the startup phase of building a successful organization.
BSM 255: Project Management
This course prepares students to develop and implement project plans when working to complete assigned projects. Topics in this course may include defining project goals and objectives, specifying tasks or how goals will be achieved, establishing needed resources for project completion, and associating budgets and completion timelines. Students study the major phases of project management including project feasibility, planning, implementation, evaluation, and support. Project management software will be used by students to gain an understanding of how to best organize and delegate their project. Students gain an understanding of how to manage projects and how these skills may be applied to an individual project or a group project.
BSM 305: Personal Selling and Branding
This course covers both personal selling and branding. Participants will learn how to create their personal brand, define their target audience, and use role playing and video presentations to master sales techniques and enhance interpersonal communication skills.
BSM 465: Ethics and Law in Media Communications
Ethics and Law in Media Communications: In this course, students will explore the legal issues surrounding mass media. Topics covered in this class include copyright laws, contracts, distribution agreements, music licensing, and other business media communication laws. This class focuses on the ethical decisions that people in mass media face each day. Students study the fundamental principles of ethics and how to apply them to their daily lives.
CSC 100: Student Success Fundamentals
This course serves as an introduction to the necessary core skills needed to be successful at an academic, professional, and personal level. Students will identify core skills, values and interests to assist in their path to success. Topics covered in this course may include time management, effective study skills, written and oral communication, improving critical thinking to enhance problem-solving skills. Other topics may include job search techniques and job etiquette, and on-the-job behavior. Students will work towards building their professional development through various assignments and topics throughout the course. Students will explore Laurus College resources for success inside and outside the classroom.
ENG 100: English Composition I
English provides students with the basic rhetorical foundations to prepare them for the demands of academic and professional writing. Students in this course will learn and practice the strategies and processes that successful writers employ when communicating information. These strategies include reading analytically and strategically, improving reading comprehension, writing persuasively, writing for investigative purposes, problem-resolution, evaluation, explanation, and refutation.
ENG 200: English Composition II
English provides students with the basic research foundations and skills to prepare them for the demands of academic and professional writing. Students in this course will learn and practice the strategies and processes that successful writers employ when researching topics and information to prepare reports and arguments. The course will culminate with a written research paper and the presentation of the student’s research for peer response.
ENG 305: Speech and Rhetoric
This course builds on the foundation of ENG100 (English Composition I) and ENG 200 (English Composition II) by introducing students to effective rhetorical concepts—both classical and modern—and to apply relevant analysis. Understanding classical rhetorical devices—logos, pathos, and ethos—and how writer’s effectively use them to sway opinion provides students with a methodology of being able to appropriately judge the information they encounter in both the academic and professional arena. Additionally, this course will help students hone their skills in argumentation and presentation.
HUM 120: Introduction to Sociology
This course introduces tools used by sociologists to explore and understand society. Social relationships, social structures and processes are explored.
HUM 140: Introduction to Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes. In this class, students will dive into what makes themselves and others behave the way they do. Topics covered in this class include Neuroscience, Sensation and Perception, Learning, Memory, Thinking and Intelligence, Developmental Psychology, Personality Theories and Assessment, Social Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and Workplace Psychology. This class will be focused more on behavior as it pertains to the workplace rather than the clinical side of Psychology.
HUM 300: World History
Students will explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time. This overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history in a chronological story that will help students gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society.
MTH 101: Introductory Algebra
This course provides students with a conceptual understanding of algebra by using problem solving applications in context to real-world application. Students will integrate meaningful applications with relevant data, graphs, tables, charts, colors, and diagrams.
MTH 240: Statistics
This course covers descriptive statistics and inferential statistics with relevant applications to solving real-world problems, hypothesis testing and decision-making. Important statistical models and distributions will be discussed.
PHY 200: Physical Science
This course introduces students to physical science. Students will learn about physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology, and geology. This will give students the ability to understand and interact with their physical environment in a more engaging way. Some of the knowledge students gain includes Newton’s Laws, chemical elements, the universe, and geologic concepts.
PRO 200: Professional Communications in the Workplace
This course focuses on professional communication in the 21st workplace. Students in this course will hone their communication skills by working on various assignments and projects, including face-to-face conversations, collaborative work groups, presentations, and interviews. Lectures include topics in nonverbal communication, cultural differences, organizational fit, and networking within specific industries through face-to-face interactions and via social networking sites, such as Facebook and LinkedIn. By the end of the course, students will have prepared industry specific portfolios and taken part in mock interviews specific to their field of study.
VID 130: Intro to Video
This course introduces students to the world of video production and demonstrates how professional video incorporates lighting principles, acting concepts, audio and video capture, composition, sequencing, and various video formats. Students will learn video terminology and explore and understand modern video techniques.
VID 170: Video 1
This course introduces students to modern techniques in video and non-linear video editing using industry standard software. Students will learn methods in capturing video and visual storytelling through the use of editing. Students will also script, act, capture, and create content.
VID 270: Video II
This course develops students’ skills in modern techniques in video and non-linear video editing using software. Students will learn advanced methods in capturing video and visual storytelling through the use of editing. Students will also use footage to edit, finalize, and publish a short video to YouTube.
