Game Design and Music with Concentration in Music Technology, BS (Boston)
Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogArts Media DesignBoston128 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source
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Game Design Courses
- ARTF 1000 — Art and Design at Northeastern
Game Design Required
- GAME 1110 — Games and Society
- GAME 2500 — Foundations of Game Design
- GAME 2950 — Game Studio
- GAME 3400 — Level Design and Game Architecture
- GAME 3700 — Rapid Idea Prototyping for Games
- GAME 3800 — Game Concept Development
Art + Design Electives
16 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete 16 Semester Hours of ARTD, ARTE, ARTF, ARTG, ARTH, and GAME courses as long as prerequisites have been met.
If GAME 4000 Topics in Game Design or ARTD 3000 Topics in Media Arts (or any other topics course in the subjects listed above) is completed more than once, multiple completions may be allowed toward the electives.
Music Theory Placement
From the catalog
All students can take a music theory placement exam to place out of MUSC 1119. Students who place out of MUSC 1119 will substitute it with a general elective course.
- MUSC 1119 — Fundamentals of Western Music Theory
Music Theory and Composition
- MUSC 1201 — Music Theory 1
- MUSC 1202 — Music Theory 2
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
- Choose 8 semester hours from:
Music in Context
- MUSC 1001 — Music in Everyday Life
Contemporary / Popular Music
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
- One of:
- MUSC 2101 — Black Popular Music
- MUSC 2150 — Making a Musical: Analysis, Craft, and Creation
- MUSC 2310 — Popular Music Since 1945
- MUSC 2311 — Topics in American Music
- MUSC 2317 — Punk Rock
- MUSC 2320 — 40,000 Years of Music Technology
- MUSC 2336 — The Festival Experience
- MUSC 2340 — Divas, DJs, and Double Standards
- MUSC 2351 — Music, Sound, and the Screen
- MUSC 2355 — Music and Sports in American Culture
- MUSC 3352 — Sounding Human
- MUSC 3353 — Music and the Racial Imagination
- MUSC 3354 — Sound and the Sacred
- MUSI 3360 — Global Music Industries in Context
- MUSI 3401 — Hip Hop in the Music Industry
Music Technology Requirements
- MUSC 2350 — Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Music
- MUST 1220 — Introduction to Music Technology
- MUST 2102 — Composing with Digital Technologies
- MUST 2431 — Computer Music Fundamentals
Music Technology Electives
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
- Choose 8 semester hours from:
- MUSC 4510 — Music and the Brain Research
- MUST 3300 — Musical Interactions in Extended Reality
- MUST 3601 — Digital Audio Signal Processing
- MUST 3602 — Electronics for Music
- MUST 3603 — Embedded Audio Programming
- MUST 3973 — Special Topics in Music Technology
- MUST 4600 — Digital Audio Signal Analysis
- MUST 4610 — Composition for Electronic Instruments
- MUST 5510 — Sound, Motion, and Computer Interaction
- MUST 5520 — Data Sonification
- MUST 5973 — Special Topics in Music Technology
Integrative Requirement
From the catalog
Note: MUST 1220 is already required in the Music Technology Requirements section.
- One of:
- MUST 1220 — Introduction to Music Technology
Capstone
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