Business Administration (Music Industry concentration) Bachelor of Science degree

Office: W305 Thompson Hall

(716) 673-4605

Armand Petri, Advisor

Email: music.business@fredonia.edu

Website: http://www.fredonia.edu/business/musicbusiness/

The Music Industry curriculum serves students interested in a wide range of educational objectives and vocational fields through an interdisciplinary program emphasizing a balance of music, business, and relative elective subjects.

Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Music Industry

A. General course requirements (30 credit hours):

BUAD 101Understanding Business

3

COMM 102Mass Media and Society

3

CSIT 107Web Programming I

3

and

CSIT 104Introduction to Microcomputer Software

3

or

CSIT 151Introduction to Information Systems

3

and

ECON 200Fundamentals of Statistics for Business Administration and Economics

3

ACCT 201Principles of Financial Accounting

3

ACCT 202Principles of Managerial Accounting

3

ECON 201Principles of Macroeconomics

3

ECON 202Principles of Microeconomics

3

CSIT 251Information Systems Structures

3

B. Major Course Requirements

MUS 021-048Special Ensemble

.5

MUS 101Beginning Music Theory I

3

MUS 104Applied Music Class for Non-Music Majors

1

MUS 115Music Appreciation

3

MUSB 201The Business of Music

3

MUSB 301Music Copyrights

3

MUSB 320Music Contracts

3

MUSB 420Student Record Label

3

MUSB 425Music Marketing and Promotion

3

Plus two courses from the following:

MUS 265History of Jazz

3

MUS 270The History of American Popular Music, 1900-1963

3

MUS 333Musics of the World

3

MUS 457Seminar in Popular Music

3

Plus 3 credit hours from the following:

AADM 400Arts Administration Practicum

1-3

MUSB 465Music Business Internship

1-15

Plus 1-2 credit hours from the following:

SRT 105Recording Techniques for Music

1

or

MUS 471Special Topics Workshop

1-6

C. All Business Administration majors must complete at least 66 credit hours of non-ACCT/BUAD prefixed courses.

D. All Business Administration majors are allowed to repeat a failed major course no more than two times.

E. All Business Administration majors must complete an internship (BUAD 480) or a service learning course (INDS 199, 299, 399, 499), that is tied to a course in Business Administration.

Individualized Specialization: With the approval of his or her advisor and the chair of the department, a student may develop his or her own specialization in lieu of the above specific major. Such specializations must consist of (as listed above) the Supporting Courses, the Lower Level Business Core, the Upper Level Business Core, and at least five additional upper-level courses in a cohesive subject-area germane to business. Currently popular individualized specializations include but are not limited to Sport Management, Pharmaceutical Sales, Corporate Law, and International Business. Other specializations are possible and encouraged as long as they satisfy the department’s conditions for rigor and substance.