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 101 | Understanding Business | 3 |
| COMM 102 | Mass Media and Society | 3 |
| CSIT 107 | Web Programming I | 3 |
| and | |
| CSIT 104 | Introduction to Microcomputer Software | 3 |
| or | |
| CSIT 151 | Introduction to Information Systems | 3 |
| and | |
| ECON 200 | Fundamentals of Statistics for Business Administration and Economics | 3 |
| ACCT 201 | Principles of Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ACCT 202 | Principles of Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| ECON 201 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 202 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| CSIT 251 | Information Systems Structures | 3 |
B. Major Course Requirements
Plus two courses from the following:
| MUS 265 | History of Jazz | 3 |
| MUS 270 | The History of American Popular Music, 1900-1963 | 3 |
| MUS 333 | Musics of the World | 3 |
| MUS 457 | Seminar in Popular Music | 3 |
Plus 3 credit hours from the following:
Plus 1-2 credit hours from the following:
| SRT 105 | Recording Techniques for Music | 1 |
| or | |
| MUS 471 | Special 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.