Technology for Musicians I

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Build core digital and technological skills for musicians and create a practical portfolio for school and career use.
• Demonstrate competency with essential music technologies and UNCG systems.
• Learn fundamentals of music notation, audio recording/editing, and other media tools.
• Produce a portfolio of artifacts optimized for real-world use such as applications, teaching materials, auditions, and professional websites.
• Understand and apply MacOS tips, UNCG network access, email, and Canvas usage.
• Create clean, intermediate-level music scores and export to various formats (PDF, MIDI, audio, etc.).
• Record and edit audio, understand audio formats (MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC), and assemble basic recording setups.
• Import and edit multi-source video footage, apply transitions, titles, still images, and external audio; export to common video formats and share appropriately.
• Build a personal portfolio website.
• Extend music notation skills to professional-level engraving.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Unit Projects	100%
Basic Computing Module	10%
Other Modules (5 total projects)	90% (18% each)

Letter Grades

Percentage	Letter Grade
100-94%	A
93-90%	A-
89-87%	B+
86-84%	B
83-80%	B-
79-77%	C+
76-74%	C
73-70%	C-
69-60%	D
< 60%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance/participation is not a graded component included in the student's final grade for this course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• USB flash drive or external hard drive that is 8GB or larger and UNCG OneDrive for cloud backup.
• Headphones (1/8” / 3.5mm): Bring to the lab for work with audio/video and class videos. Limited check-out available in the lab and the Music Library (2nd floor).