The Electronic Music Production and Sound Design Major is purposely broad, giving you a wide range of overlapping skills that can be used in many fields. If your goal is to create electronic music, you’ll produce a collection of signature work. If you are interested in applying your skill to sound design for any type of visual or interactive media, the work you produce in this course will show your strengths in those areas.

In the course, you will learn how to establish goals to propose, plan, and execute a project. Central to the philosophy of the course is design. Everything you do will have a purpose that supports the goal of the project. By completing the course, you will learn about how you as an individual work best, and how you can successfully direct your efforts to a professional outcome.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Propose a structured project with challenging but realistic goals
• Identify your strengths and weaknesses when assuming different roles while working on a production
• Identify the design elements and particular needs of the project, once it has been defined
• Define reference models that pertain to your project to use them as a guidance and a road map
• Create a production template that addresses the needs of your specific project
• Assemble a production library to organize and store the assets needed for a particular project
• Determine how to approach different recording scenarios, depending on the project’s needs
• Determine the general sound processing approach, depending on the project’s needs
• Develop a signature sound for the project you are working on
• Create a project journal that will document the progress of your production
• Identify the elements you should include in your demo, depending on the nature of your project
• Apply different recording and sequencing techniques learned throughout the Electronic Music Production and Sound Design major
• Provide and receive criticism to find strong and weak areas in a project, in order to optimize efforts and get better results
• Adapt your schedule and approaches to unforeseen changes imposed by the nature and circumstances of your project
• Address issues related to your project, by identifying problem-solving strategies that pertain to your specific needs
• Utilize effects and automation in your projects, to enhance the final outcome
• Identify when the development of your project is coming to a conclusion, depending on your project goals and resources
• Utilize mixing strategies to achieve an optimal result for your project
• Create a mastered version of your project, making sure to choose the right delivery format for the needs of your production