Five Towns College

Business Administration

The objective of the Business Administration Program is to help prepare students to assume managerial and administrative responsibilities. Students graduating with an A.S. degree in this field usually plan to continue their studies toward a baccalaureate degree. Career courses for this degree include the specific areas of accounting, statistics, and law as well as foundation studies in business organization and management, marketing, and finance.

Business Management

The Business Management Program with concentrations in Audio Recording Technology, Business Management, Business Marketing, and Music Entertainment Industries is designed for students planning to pursue a career in business in a variety of roles including managers, coordinators, and executives, in an assortment of industries including social media, record and music production, broadcasting, concert promotion, radio, television, theatre, and communications.

Business Management

The A.A.S. degree program in Business Management with the concentrations in Audio Recording Technology, Management, Marketing, and Music Entertainment and Industry Studies is intended for those students who wish to enter the business world directly after completion of their studies at the College.

Composition

The Master of Music degree in Composition prepares students for a public recital of their original works. Composition and arranging courses provide them the opportunities to compose and arrange in different mediums adding to their personal portfolio. While students strive to gain technical competency, they are encouraged to work toward a definite personal aesthetic that is translatable in sound.

Composition/Arranging

This program offers the student an opportunity to acquire training for a career as a composer and arranger or as a college teacher of music theory and composition. A thorough knowledge of contemporary harmony and a background in orchestration are essential for this degree. The program stresses creative activity emphasizing the development of a personal aesthetic expressible in sound.

Court Reporting

The College offers a program in Court Reporting leading to the Certificate. This track is only open to students who have earned a first associate or bachelor's degree which included the equivalent general education courses contained in the program in Court Reporting leading to the A.O.S. degree. The program prepares students for careers in the field of Court Reporting and requires demonstration of the ability to write on a stenography machine at a speed of 225 words per minute.

Court Reporting

The College's program in Court Reporting is intended for those students who wish to enter the field of Court Reporting directly after completion of their studies at the College. The program prepares students with the foundation of the principles of writing machine shorthand realtime theory and builds students' speed to the graduation requirement of 225 words per minute.

Film and Television

The Film and Television Program develops in students the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to produce broadcast-style and narrative motion pictures. Graduates are prepared for entry-level positions as film editors, production crew, and cinematographers. Learning goals for students focus upon mastery of cinematography, film history, film and video editing, motion picture directing, motion picture production, and scriptwriting.

Interactive Media Arts

The Interactive Media Arts program prepares students for careers in the digital arts industry, providing them with unique immersive classroom experiences that mimic professional projects they will encounter in the workforce. Students work individually and as part of collaborative teams, gaining experience, building confidence, and curating their portfolios, enabling them to excel as artists and designers in a creative production environment.

Interactive Media Arts

The Interactive Media Arts program prepares students for careers in the digital arts industry, providing them with unique immersive classroom experiences that mimic professional projects they will encounter in the workforce. Building on the foundation and principles of design, students learn the art of visual and interactive communication. The program can lead to careers such as Graphic Designer, 3D Generalist, Web Graphics Animator, Multimedia Designer, Compositor, and Exhibit Designer.

Liberal Arts

The Liberal Arts Program provides a general education in the traditional areas of knowledge, regardless of the student's career choice. In addition, the student has the opportunity for additional study in a particular discipline in selected fields to explore its methods, acquire its tools, and gain a mastery of its body of knowledge. The Associate in Arts graduate is prepared for transfer with advanced standing to a baccalaureate program.

Mass Communication

The Mass Communication Program is designed so that students acquire and demonstrate proficiency in the essential skills necessary for a career in the mass communication industry and in the fields of broadcasting and journalism. Students learn the principles, laws, and historical background of the mass communication industry, while enhancing their oral, written, and critical thinking skills. Learning goals include mass media and society, voice and diction, and new and emerging media.

Music Education

The D.M.A. in Music Education is comprised of an intensive and comprehensive study of the role of music in the K-12 public school system and institutions of higher learning. The doctoral candidate develops a keen knowledge of pedagogical, psychological, and social values of music education, as well as the theoretical and historical basis of music used in education. Candidates engage in research culminating in a dissertation that makes an original contribution to the field of music education.

Music Education (K-12)

The Music Education Program is designed for students interested in a career as a music teacher in a public or private school. The program leads to New York State Initial Certification in Music K-12 (pending passing of the NYS certification exams) and includes required New York State Field and Clinical experiences.

Music Education (M.A.T.)

The Master of Arts in Teaching in Music Education leading to both Initial and Professional Teacher Certification is a degree designed for individuals who have earned a bachelor's degree in Music but not Music Education, and who are interested in a career as a music teacher in a public or private school.

Music Education (M.M.)

The graduate program in Music Education requires satisfactory completion of thirty-six credits of approved graduate courses including a research project. It is designed for those individuals who have Provisional/Initial Certification and wish to attain Professional Certification to teach grades K-12. The program provides qualified students the opportunity to advance their study and research in music education and earn a Master of Music degree.

Music History

The Master of Music degree in Music History gives students the opportunity to explore the work of prominent performing artists and composers of the 20th and 21st centuries and to write a thesis in that field. The program supports scholarship in American music history studies.

Music History and Literature

In this program the candidate has the opportunity to acquire the appropriate tools and methods of research in both history and literature. The candidate also has the opportunity to research any cultural area or historical aspect of music that adds to the body of knowledge in music history and literature. Competencies include bibliographic research, analytic techniques, and writing skills.

Music Performance

Degrees in this area are awarded for instrumental or vocal performance. In addition to demonstrating the technical achievements of the artist-performer, the candidate is expected to exhibit a thorough knowledge of the theoretical, pedagogical, and historical aspects of instrumental/vocal music as well as knowledge of its literature.

Music Technology

The Master of Music degree in technology prepares students for the professional application of audio software for music creation and music teaching. Students take courses in a professional audio recording environment, and projects are administered during class time from audio industry professionals. Students are given the skills to run audio recording sessions using DAW systems which include digital recording and MIDI applications.

Performance

The Master of Music degree in Performance trains advanced instrumentalists and vocalists in improvisation and diverse musical genres to prepare students for a performance career. The program includes study in musical analysis and musicology, as well as elective courses in composition and music technology.

Performance

The general performance degree is designed for students interested in a performance career. Additional training in improvisation and diverse musical genres prepares the student with a marketable range of abilities to perform in various musical venues. The comprehensive program in Performance provides both a common core of technical studies and foundation for specialized courses in the student's major area of concentration.

Performance

The Five Towns College Performance A.A.S. program has been organized to enable its graduates to prepare for careers as instrumental and vocal performers, music arrangers and composers, private music teachers, and music store and studio operators. An intensive schedule of ensemble workshops, coordinated with composition, arranging and repertory courses, enables students to perform, analyze, and evaluate their work in professional-level laboratory sessions.

Sound Recording Technology

The program in Sound Recording Technology leading to the Master of Professional Studies degree will enhance the technical capabilities of graduates through in-depth studies of the art, science and practice in this ever-advancing field. Significant hands-on in-studio project work, using industry-standard technologies, develops the knowledge, skills and competencies necessary to successfully complete the artistic and research projects embedded in the coursework.

Theatre Arts

The Theatre Arts Program develops knowledge, skill, and conservatory training in acting, singing, dancing, and theatrical design and technology. The Program provides a broad range of experiences in multiple classes and shows, enabling students to prepare for careers in theatre, film, television, internet, and other multi-media productions that incorporate comedy, tragedy, drama, musicals, and video.

Theatre Arts

To prepare graduates for entry-level positions in the field of theatre arts. The degree will focus on hands-on experience and learning throughout the coursework. The Associate of Occupational Studies graduate is prepared for transfer with advanced standing to a baccalaureate program where additional professional training may be undertaken.