Audio Engineering Curriculums for the Higher Education : Case Studies on the USA's and the European Graduate Schools

Abstract

Currently, a lot of colleges and universities offer Acoustics and audio engineering courses. In this paper, we analyze and classify the current state of the graduate level curriculums of the area. For the purposes, we focus on graduate school courses of the U.S. and Europe where audio engineering is highly advanced. They were classified into three different types depending on the educational objectives. In addition, the representative cases of each type are presented to examine the characteristics of the subjects.