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B.F.A. in sound design

Atlanta
 / 
Savannah

Foundation studies: 25 hours

  • FOUN 110 Design Thinking and Process
  • FOUN 111 Sketching and Drawing
  • FOUN 112 Color in Context
  • FOUN 113 Creative Collaboration Lab
  • FOUN 251 Time Based Design: Story, Sound, and Movement 

General education: 55 hours

  • COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
  • BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
  • CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
  • CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
  • ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
  • DIGI 130 Digital Communication
  • ENGL 142 Foundations of Story
  • Select one of the following:

  • CINE 275 History of Cinema
  • LIBA 288 Media Literacy Theory
  • ARLH or ARTH Elective
  • General Education Elective
  • Mathematics/Natural Sciences Elective
  • Social/Behavioral Sciences Elective 

Major curriculum: 80 hours

  • Select one of the following:

  • SNDS 101 Sound for Film and Television
  • SNDS 102 Sound for Animation and Games
  • SNDS 110 Fundamentals of Audio
  • SNDS 125 Sound in Media
  • SNDS 203 Field Sound Effects Recording
  • SNDS 206 Production Audio
  • SNDS 212 Music for Media
  • SNDS 223 Sound Editing
  • Select one of the following:

  • SNDS 308 Sound Art
  • SNDS 309 Modular Synthesis
  • SNDS 312 ADR and Voice-over
  • SNDS 313 Dialogue Editing
  • SNDS 322 Foley Production Techniques
  • SNDS 403 Sound Design Collaboration
  • SNDS 409 Game Audio Design
  • Select one of the following:

  • SNDS 419 Stereo Mixing
  • SNDS 429 Multi-channel Mixing
  • SNDS 440 Sound Supervision
  • Select one of the following:

  • SNDS 479 Undergraduate Internship
  • 500-level SCADpro Elective
  • Business-Focused Elective

Additional electives: 20 hours

  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective

Total course of study: 180 hours