Department website: https://www.cerritos.edu/music/

CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT

The Commercial Music Production Certificate is designed as a four semester program to provide the technical skills and theoretical background for a career in the audio recording, music production, and audio for film and television industries. Students will learn professional-level recording, editing, mixing, and synthesis techniques.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Execute editing and mixing skills with music technology software through assigned projects.
• Explain terminology and language of music relevant to an issue, composition, or theory.
• Explain copyright, publishing, and income streams associated with the music business.
• Perform basic keyboard proficiency by playing required assignments in piano and musicianship classes.
• Operate and manage a professional recording session with various musicians and instruments in indoor and outdoor venues.
• Identify and describe music structures including chords, scales, and harmonic progressions.

Program Requirements

Course List

Code Number	Course Title	Units
Required Courses
MUS 110	Music Technology Fundamentals	3.0
MUS 112	Piano I	2.0
MUS 113	Piano II	2.0
MUS 135	This Business of Music	3.0
MUS 144A	Synthesizer Techniques	2.5
MUS 144B	Electronic Music Production	2.5
MUS 144C	Multi-Channel Audio for Media	2.5
MUS 146A	Recording Techniques	2.5
MUS 146B	Mixing Techniques	2.5
MUS 146C	Post-Production for Media	2.5
MUS 155	Music Entrepreneurship	3.0
MUS 156	Contemporary Music Notation	2.5
MUS 180	Music Theory/Musicianship I	4.0
MUS 181	Music Theory/Musicianship II	4.0
Total Units		38.5