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MUC – Music and Sonic Arts Outcomes

AAS - Music & Sonic Arts AAS Degree

Degree Outcomes Core Outcomes
Plan, research, design, write, create, evaluate and revise context-appropriate music production projects using a variety of methods and industry-standard tools.
  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Cultural Awareness
  • Professional Competence
Create, prepare and present a portfolio containing both electronic media and hard copy that demonstrates skill development and problem-solving skills in music and audio production and compositions using industry standard software and hardware.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Professional Competence
  • Self-Reflection
Work effectively in group- and team-based music and audio production environments, including delegation of tasks and critique of peer work.
  • Communication
  • Community and Environmental Responsibility
  • Cultural Awareness
Apply essential features of project management including scheduling, testing and QA, and developing proposals.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Professional Competence
Conceptualize and develop a viable career or academic parth in music--composition, performance, private instruction, education, music therapy, recording/production, application/instrument development, or media experience design.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Professional Competence

AAS - Creative Coding & Immersive Technologies AAS Degree

Degree Outcomes Core Outcomes
Demonstrate technical and conceptual proficiency with an array of industry-standard tools for creative coders.
  • Professional Competence
Apply technical, artistic and social skills to the design of interactive and immersive experiences that communicate and resonate with a diversity of audiences.
  • Communication
  • Cultural Awareness
Demonstrate a rigorous design and troubleshooting practice suitable to the deployment of atypical solutions to new problems.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Self-Reflection
Demonstrate an understanding of, and preparedness to engage continuously with, emerging technologies, skills and frameworks associated with new and evolving communication paradigms.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Professional Competence
Demonstrate social awareness, and the application of social, cultural and economic frameworks (feminism, critical race theory, intersectionality etc.), in the design of interactive and immersive technologies and experiences.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Cultural Awareness
Exercise a multidisciplinary mindset, effectively synthesizing concepts and tools from multiple areas of study in the design and implementation of interactive and immersive technologies and experiences.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Professional Competence

ACERTP - Creative Coding and Immersive Technologies

Degree Outcomes Core Outcomes
Demonstrate technical and conceptual proficiency with an array of industry-standard tools for creative coders.
  • Professional Competence
Apply technical, artistic and social skills to the design of interactive and immersive experiences that communicate and resonate with a diversity of audiences.
  • Communication
  • Cultural Awareness
Demonstrate a rigorous design and troubleshooting practice suitable to the deployment of atypical solutions to new problems.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Self-Reflection
Demonstrate an understanding of, and preparedness to engage continuously with, emerging technologies, skills and frameworks associated with new and evolving communication paradigms.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Professional Competence

ACERTP - Music & Sonic Arts Less Than One-Year Career Pathway Certificate

Degree Outcomes Core Outcomes
Plan, research, design, write, create evaluate and revise context-appropriate music production projects using a variety of methods and industry-standard tools and technologies in a multitude of commercial genres.
  • Professional Competence
Conceptualize and develop a viable career or academic path in music-- composition/arranging, performance, private instruction, education, music therapy, recording/production, or application/instrument development.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Professional Competence
Develop and effectively implement independent and group musical projects.
  • Communication
  • Community and Environmental Responsibility
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Cultural Awareness
Explain personal technical and artistic choices in connection with historical precedents and cultural contexts.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Cultural Awareness
  • Self-Reflection