Foothill College Courses

Advanced recording studio techniques, concepts, and creative elements of professional music production. Advanced microphone techniques and acoustics. Planning and pre-production, studio teamwork, coll

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Creative applications of software plugins and outboard hardware used in contemporary music production and sound design. Signal processing, equalization, compression, Beat Detective, distortion, reverb

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to the tools and techniques used to create and perform electronic music in a variety of styles. Programming of virtual analog and digital synthesizers, developing techniques for recording

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Creating and editing sounds with synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and virtual instruments. Compose and produce music in a variety of styles, including commercial and experimental. Utilize MIDI a

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Advanced techniques for electronic music production in a variety of genres. Recording and processing vocals. Advanced analog and digital synthesis and sound design techniques. Field recording of origi

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to the great composers and music masterpieces of Western culture. Includes composer biographies with emphasis on how composers synthesize or transform the aesthetic ideals of their time.

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to the great composers and music masterpieces of Western culture. Includes composer biographies with emphasis on how composers synthesize or transform the aesthetic ideals of their time.

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Paid Course

Continuation of common practice procedures in music and their application to composition and music literature. Seventh chords, an introduction to two-part counterpoint, secondary dominants and leading

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introductory study of the history and development of popular music from 1964 through the present in the U.S. The course examines the development of media delivery systems after The Beatles' first appe

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

The impact of emerging electronic music styles on instrument development, recording technology and popular culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Incorporation of electronic music and inst

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Continuation of the advanced-beginning level integrated skills course for learners of English as an additional language. Focus on developing a basic level of grammar and vocabulary through listening,

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

This is a continuation of the intermediate level integrated skills course for learners of English as an additional language who already have a basic level of speaking, listening, reading and writing.

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

Develop skills to listen to everyday English and to participate in everyday conversations. Introduction to academic listening and classroom interactional skills, discussion skills, and the language of

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks
• Paid Course

Social and political philosophies of classical, modern and contemporary thinkers. Issues of concern to include the justification and structure of the political state, constitution of government, indiv

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Examination of the major European philosophers and philosophic movements of the 17th and 18th centuries. Particular attention to paid to the transition out of the medieval period into the Age of Enlig

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course