BELMONT UNIVERSITY
MIKE CURB COLLEGE OF ENTERTAINMENT AND MUSIC BUSINESS
COURSE SYLLABUS
Class Location: MBC Meeting Time(s): Tuesday 6:30-9:15 PM
Final Exam: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 7:00 pm
Instructor: Alison Booth
Contacts: Phone: 301-4334 (w) Email: alison.booth@sonybmg.com (w)
356-0380 (h)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A & R Administration is an integral function of Record Label operations and this course examines the administrative perspective of the label and how records are made. The student will learn about all aspects of the recording project and what happens ‘behind the scene’, from developing the budget with the producer to creating the company’s product and its long-term assets.
http://www.belmont.edu/catalog/undergrad2004jun/b_mcourses.htm.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The course will provide students with a basic understanding of the business side of making records through lectures, ‘hands-on’ projects, and the perspective of various industry professionals (guest speakers).
GOALS OF THE MIKE CURB COLLEGE OF ENTERTAINMENT AND MUSIC BUSINESS:
The following objectives will be applied toward course completion:
· To provide a personalized, career-oriented and practical education that emphasizes leadership, innovation, private enterprise, and entrepreneurship.
· To equip students with the tools to think critically, communicate effectively, accept responsibility, make successful decisions, and prosper in diverse work environments.
· To emphasize quality classroom instruction within the parameters of ethical Christian principles.
As members of the Belmont community, students, faculty, staff, and administrators are all responsible for ensuring that their experiences will be free of behaviors, which compromise value. In order to uphold academic integrity, the University has adopted an Honor System. Students and faculty will work together to establish the optimal conditions for honorable academic work. Following is the Student Honor Pledge that guides academic behavior:
“I will not give or receive aid during examinations; I will not give or receive false or impermissible aid in course work, in the preparation of reports, or in any other type of work that is to be used by the instructor as the basis of my grade; I will not engage in any form of academic fraud. Furthermore, I will uphold my responsibility to see to it that others abide by the spirit and letter of this Honor Pledge.”
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
1. Attendance: As per the current Undergraduate Bulletin. Additionally, class attendance is counted as 15% of the final grade. Ten points for each absence will be deducted from the final grade.
2. Materials: All reading and project materials will be provided by the instructor in the form of hand-outs and web-site access. There is no required textbook for the course.
3. Participation and Prepared assignments: All students are expected to participate in class discussions and group discussions. Special Projects will be assigned which require a ‘hands on’ application of ‘real world’ label operations and functions.
4. Testing: Tests are tentatively planned for February 21, 2006, March 28, 2006 and May 2, 2006, but may be subject to change based on when material planned for the tests is fully covered. Additionally, there will be 3 unplanned tests or ‘pop quizzes’ during the course of the semester.
5. Basis of grade evaluation: Grading scale as per the current Undergraduate Bulletin. Participation credits are listed below:
ITEM CREDIT (or %)
A. Two Tests 300 37.50 %
B. Two Projects 200 25.00 %
C. Three Pop Quizzes 150 18.75 %
D. Attendance and Class Participation 150 18.75 %
Total Points (%) 800 100 %
01/17/06 A & R Administration Overview
01/24/06 Contractual, Financial, Union Overview
01/31/06 Contractual Issues – Guest Speaker
02/07/06 Financial Issues – Guest Speaker
02/14/06 Union Issues – Guest Speaker
02/21/06 Test #1; Budgeting for Recording Projects
02/28/06 Budgeting (cont’d) & First Project
03/07/06 Spring Break
03/14/06 Recording Costs & Repertoire Set-up
03/21/06 Pre-production & Delivery Overview
03/28/06 Test #2
04/04/06 Production – Guest Speaker
04/11/06 Delivery of Recording Project
04/18/06 Pre-Archiving; Verification of Assets – Guest Speaker
04/25/06 Archiving – Guest Speaker
05/02/06 Test #3; Final Overview; Final Project Due
05/09/06 tbd
Accommodation of Disabilities:
In compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Belmont University will provide reasonable accommodation of all medically documented disabilities. If you have a disability and would like the university to provide reasonable accommodations of the disability during this course, please notify Tammye Tanksley, Director of Counseling & Developmental Support in the Office of the Dean of Students (460-6407) as soon as possible.