Courses
FALL SEMESTERS
Building Your Music Career
MUSC 4918-2 Your Music Career
The “everything you need to know” course for the aspiring professional musician. Topics include how to build a network, effective development and use of promotional materials, funding models, social media and the internet, and basic financial management, among others — all taught through an entrepreneurial lens. A wide range of career options is also explored, using the entrepreneurial process to assess and explore a variety of paths and opportunities.
Instructor: Jeffrey Nytch
Open to all majors
Graduate Topics in Arts Entrepreneurship
MUSC 5968-2
This course prepares students to evaluate opportunities in their specific arts field by analyzing existing arts organizations and then applying entrepreneurial concepts to create new enterprises. Topics for research and discussion include current issues in the arts, introduction to entrepreneurship, preparing a business feasibility study, market information for new ventures, and funding sources.
Instructor: Joan Braun, MBA, Director of CU Presents
Open to graduate students in all majors, undergraduates by permission
Principles of Business for Entrepreneurs
ESBM 3200
This course gives students a basic understanding of the business principles required to start and grow an entrepreneurial venture, with particular focus on marketing and financial management. It is intended for non-business majors who have not taken a marketing, accounting or finance course.
Instructors: Faculty from the Deming Entrepreneurship Center, Leeds School of Business
Open to all music majors; others with instructor permission. Prerequisite: TMUS 4493
Prepared for the Soundcheck
MUSC 2081-2
Provides an overview of the recording process from the performer’s perspective, from soundcheck through final mastering. Uses recorded material from in class sessions. Examines differing approaches to recording as well as current technologies.
Instructors: Kevin Harbison, College of Music Recording Engineer
Open to all music majors
SPRING SEMESTERS
Community Performances
MUSC 4958-2
Learn to program music for all types of audiences, gain confidence speaking about you and your music, and how to handle the logistics of creating a successful concert. Discuss the role of concerts in the 21st century, and examine new ways of presenting concerts. Course includes classroom theory and practical application, culminating in a concert planned and presented in a local venue.
Instructor: Jeffrey Nytch
Open to music majors only
The Entrepreneurial Musician
TMUS 4493
Students will learn the core principles of entrepreneurship – such as idea formation, venture models, opportunity assessment, market analysis, and strategies for launching a venture – and apply them to their own entrepreneurial ideas. Lectures, projects, entrepreneur interviews, and case studies will culminate in a feasibility study for an original entrepreneurial concept.
Instructors: Jeffrey Nytch and Frank Moyes (Deming Entrepreneurship Center, Leeds School of Business)
Open to all music majors; others with instructor permission
Principles of Business for Entrepreneurs
ESBM 3200
This course gives students a basic understanding of the business principles required to start and grow an entrepreneurial venture, with particular focus on marketing and financial management. It is intended for non-business majors who have not taken a marketing, accounting or finance course.
Instructors: Faculty from the Deming Entrepreneurship Center, Leeds School of Business
Open to all music majors; others with instructor permission. Prerequisite: TMUS 4493
Recording Techniques
MUSC 2091-2
Provides hands-on training in various audio recording techniques, acoustics, and sound reinforcement, studio maintenance, and troubleshooting. Real-world experience is gained through individual recording projects and College of Music events.
Instructor: Kevin Harbison, College of Music Recording Engineer
Prereq. MUSC 2081-2 or instructor consent
ALL SEMESTERS
Internship in Music Business
MUSC 4908/5908
Gives upper division & graduate students the opportunity to work in public or private organizations on assignments relating to their career goals, and allows them to explore the relationship between theory and practice in their major. May be repeated for a total of 6 credit hours (3 credits per semester max.).
Open to upper division and graduate students