Foothill College Courses

Designing and implementing sound effects for games and interactive media. Recording custom sound effects and working with commercial sound effects libraries. Advanced techniques for designing hard eff

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

Composing, orchestrating, and implementing music for games and interactive multimedia. Fundamental composition and orchestration techniques for strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion. Mixing and ma

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

Creating, editing, and mixing audio for film and video. Understanding aesthetic qualities of sound effects and music as they relate to story. Recording original sound elements and using commercial sou

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

Record, mix, and produce surround music with digital audio workstations. Calibrating surround speaker systems, recording surround music in the studio and concert hall, multichannel mixing for music an

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

Introduction to Pro Tools with Avid Certification training material. Basic audio editing tools and techniques, plug-ins and mixing in the Pro Tools environment. Build sessions that include multitrack

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

Pro Tools production concepts and techniques with Avid Certification training material. Recording, editing, routing audio and MIDI data. Managing Pro Tools sessions, using virtual instruments, plug-in

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

Avid Pro Tools Certified training material covers concepts and skills needed to operate Pro Tools in a professional recording studio environment. Introduction to Pro Tools HD system configurations. Pr

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

Avid Pro Tools Certified course completes skills needed to operate sophisticated Pro Tools systems in professional music production environments. Music production techniques, composing with MIDI, loop

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

Producing music with Ableton Live software. Compose, record, mix, improvise, produce and edit music. Study Ableton Live interface, edit audio, use plug-ins, MIDI sequencing and realtime mixing techniq

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

A study of Western music and its place in civilization. Selected listening and readings from the masterpieces of music of Europe and the Western Hemisphere with an emphasis on methods of comprehension

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

An introduction to the great composers and music masterpieces of Western culture, including composer biographies with emphasis on how composers synthesize or transform the aesthetic ideals of their ti

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

Introduction to the fundamentals of music and their application to composition and music literature. Notation, scales, intervals, triads, essential cadential formulas and phrase structure and their us

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

A comparative and integrative study of American music, this course explores the music traditions and styles of Native Americans, European Americans, African Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, and As

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

A comparative and integrative study of American music, this course explores the music traditions and styles of Native Americans, European Americans, African Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, and As

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

Beginning theory course, in which the basic elements of musicianship and harmony are explored through lecture, listening, and written assignments. Rudiments of music such as pitch, rhythm, harmony, st

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