Game Design and Music with Concentration in Music Technology, BS (Boston)

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Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

Universitywide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

NUpath requirements Creative Expression/Innovation (EI), Analyzing/Using Data (AD), Interpreting Culture (IC), Natural/Designed World (ND), Differences/Diversity (DD), Writing-Intensive (WI), and Capstone Experience(CE) are met through the major course requirements. All other NUpath requirements must be met through electives.

Game Design Courses

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | ARTF 1000 | Art and Design at Northeastern | 1 | | Game Design Required | | | | GAME 1110 | Games and Society | 4 | | GAME 2500 | Foundations of Game Design | 4 | | GAME 2950 | Game Studio | 4 | | GAME 3400 | Level Design and Game Architecture | 4 | | GAME 3700 | Rapid Idea Prototyping for Games | 4 | | GAME 3800 | Game Concept Development | 4 | | Art + Design Electives | | | | Complete 16 Semester Hours of ARTD, ARTE, ARTF, ARTG, ARTH, and GAME courses as long as prerequisites have been met. | | 16 | | 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 Requirements

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | Music Theory Placement | | | | 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 | 4 | | Music Theory and Composition | | | | MUSC 1201 | Music Theory 1 | 4 | | MUSC 1202 | Music Theory 2 | 4 | | Complete two of the following: | | 8 | | MUSC 2111 | Algebra and Geometry of Music | | | MUSC 2420 | Music Composition Seminar 1 | | | MUSC 2425 | Arranging and Orchestration for Film, Media, and the Concert Stage | | | MUSC 3300 | Music Perception and Cognition | | | MUSC 3541 | Music Analysis Seminar | | | MUST 2320 | Sound Design | | | Music in Context | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4 | | MUSC 1001 | Music in Everyday Life | | | MUSC 1002 and MUSC 1003 | Music in Everyday Life and Lab for MUSC 1002 | | | Contemporary / Popular Music | | | | Complete one of the following: | | 4 | | 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 2380 | The World of Choral Music | | | 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 | 4 | | MUST 1220 | Introduction to Music Technology | 4 | | MUST 2102 | Composing with Digital Technologies | 4 | | MUST 2431 | Computer Music Fundamentals | 4 | | Music Technology Electives | | | | Complete two of the following: | | 8 | | 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 5973 | Special Topics in Music Technology | |

Integrative Requirement

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | Note: MUST 1220 is already required in the Music Technology Requirements section. | | | | MUST 1220 | Introduction to Music Technology | | | Capstone | | | | GAME 4700 | Game Design Capstone | 4 | | MUST 4611 | Music Technology Capstone | 4 |

Combined Major Credit Requirement

Complete 96 semester hours in the major.

Music Grade Requirement

Students must maintain at least a 2.667 GPA (B– average) in the requirements of the music half of the combined major. Students who fail to meet the above standards will be placed on departmental probation; those who remain on probation for two consecutive semesters will be dropped from the major.

Program Requirement

128 total semester hours required

Sample Plan of Study

Four Years, Two Co-ops in Spring/Summer First Half