Music Production
Certificate of Achievement Music Recording Technology · Chabot College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Description
The Certificate of Achievement in Music Production is designed for musicians and songwriters who want to develop their creative skills while learning how to use current technologies to make music. This is a hands-on certificate program in which students will be constantly required to make sounds, create music and work on their craft. Housed in the state-of-the-art Chabot College recording studio & technology lab, this program offers a streamlined, efficient pathway for emerging musicians to establish a solid foundation of technical and aesthetic knowledge to begin working in the largely freelance and project-based creative music industry.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon the successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
- develop and implement the fundamental technical skills upon which to build a meaningful professional pathway into the music industry;
- cultivate an essential aesthetic basis upon which to make artistically viable, personally meaningful musical decisions;
- practice and demonstrate professional behaviors required in the music industry.
| Course | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| MURT 20 | Introduction to Music Technology (Active) | 3 |
| MURT 22A | Electronic Music I (Active) | 3 |
| MURT 22B | Electronic Music II (Historical) | 3 |
| MURT 31 | Sound Design (Historical) | 3 |
| MUSL 28 | Musical Structure & Songwriting (Historical) | 3 |
| MUSA 20A | Guitar I (Active) | 1 |
| orMUSA 21A | Piano I (Active) | 1 |
| orMUSA 22A | Jazz Piano and Musicianship I (Active) | 1 |
| Total | 16 | |
Other Information
Discipline: Arts & Design
Program Control Number: 40877
TOP Code: 100500 - Commercial Music
CIP Code: -