AUD 110: Audio Foundations
This course introduces students to the industry standards of digital audio concepts. Topics include files 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
