Certificate in Music Business

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Program Overview

Description of the Program
The Certificate consists of a curriculum designed to provide foundation skills, specialized music business content, and electives to build specific competencies. The total number of hours required to complete the Certificate will depend upon the level of the student's preparation prior to certificate admission. The Program requires 21 hours of coursework including foundation skills, specialized music business content, and electives.

A. Foundation Skills Courses
The foundation skills courses include the following:

• ACCT 2101 Principles of Accounting I
• MBUS 3000* (non-business majors)
• MUSI 2060 History of Rock and Roll (or equivalent) **
• MUSI 3550 Music Theory for Non-Majors

* MBUS 3000 has content customized for students of this program, and will be offered by the Finance Department, with the cooperation and participation of other departments, beginning in Spring 2007. The content of that course will be a variety of applied general business basics, designed to give non-business students a working familiarity with general business principles and operations.

** MUSI 2060 represents one of several "music literature" courses that might be used to satisfy the foundation skills requirement. As such, MUSI 2060 may be substituted with another music literature course, with the approval of the School of Music Faculty.

Students must complete or demonstrate proficiency, based upon comparable course work, in all of these courses. For example, a business major would take ACCT 2101, or other comparable courses, in their normal course of study. As such, they would need to take only MUSI 2060 and MUSI 3550 to satisfy the foundation skills requirement. Similarly, a Music Major might take MUSI 2060 and MUSI 3550, or other comparable courses, in their normal course of study. However, they would still need to take ACCT 2101 and MBUS 3000 to satisfy the foundation skills requirement. The determination of what constitutes comparable coursework for the purpose of substituting foundation skills courses will be made by the undergraduate program committees of the host units.

Students with no course work in any of these areas must take all four courses to complete the foundation skills requirement. Thus, for some students, the foundation skills area will require 12 additional hours, while for others it would require only 6 additional hours.

B. Specialized Music Coursework
The curriculum includes two mandatory, 3-hour, specialized music business courses. All students in the certificate program, regardless of background, must complete these 6 hours. These courses are listed under the prefix, MBUS, which was created exclusively for the Music Business Certificate Program at the joint request of the sponsoring units.

MBUS 4100, Music Business I, is designed as a survey of the music business field and industry. MBUS 4100 emphasizes operational aspects of the music business and on the translation of the foundation skills into practice, within this industry. MBUS 5100, Music Business II, focuses on special topics, such as engineering, creative content development, and intellectual property protection. MBUS 5100 features experiential learning activities, designed to provide hands-on experience and networking opportunities. Details on both courses are available in the appendix.

C. Elective Coursework
Along with the Foundation Skills and Specialized Music courses, students must complete at least 3 hours of electives. These electives may not count towards the student's major and must be from an area outside of the student's unit. For example, students within the College of Business may not use business courses to satisfy their elective requirements. Similarly, students within the School of Music may not use music courses to satisfy elective requirements.

This structure is designed to encourage interdisciplinary study, while offering flexibility. Students of differing talents and interests can select courses that fit their developmental and career interests. Thus, by utilizing the breadth of the University's disciplines and faculty, in conjunction with the mandatory elements of the Program, the curriculum leverages a diverse array of resources for providing music business education to a broad audience of students.

Provided below is an initial list of suggested electives that will satisfy the program requirement. A minimum of 3 hours, selected from this list, along with the completion of the mandatory elements will be required.

• MUSI 2040 History of Popular Music
• MUSI 2080 African American Music
• MUSI 3020 World Music Survey: Africa, Europe, and the Americas
• MUSI 3021 World Music Survey: Middle East, Asia, and Oceana
• MUSI 4783 History of Jazz
• NMIX 2020 Introduction to New Media
• ECON 2105 Principles of Macroeconomics
• ECON 2106 Principles of Microeconomics (unless part of the Foundation skills courses)
• FINA 3000 Financial Management
• LEGL 2700 Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business
• MARK 3000 Principles of Marketing
• MGMT 3000 Organizations and Individuals
• MIST 2090 Intro. To Information Systems
• MSIT 3000 Statistical Analysis for Business I
• RMIN 4000 Risk Management & Insurance

Courses beyond this list might also be used to satisfy the elective requirement of the Certificate Program, with approval of the appropriate Undergraduate Program Faculty. All prerequisite requirements for the elective courses in the Certificate Program must either be met by the student or waived by the appropriate faculty units.