Bachelor of Arts - Music - Recording Arts

Nearly 30 years, the Recording Arts program has been educating students in music and audio engineering. The program is one of the first of its kind, with a focus on building a solid foundation in the myriad of skills necessary to have a successful career in the music industry. The Recording Arts’ music curriculum complements the upper-division recording curriculum, giving the students experience on both sides of the glass. No matter how technical the curricular material music is always the foundation because the Recording Arts are designed to facilitate musical expression. Courses such as music theory, aural musicianship, songwriting, piano, and other courses help students develop musical skills that will position them in a higher tier of engineers in the professional world. The incredible state-of-the-art recording studios are substantial to nurture the Recording Arts program experience. The skills students learn in the major are easily transferred to a variety of situations involving recorded or live music and sound, so it is no surprise that there are alumni working in post-production, sound reinforcement, sound design for theatre, mobile recording, broadcast, studio design, AV installation, music production, just to name a few.