Program Recognition
•Bullet: NYU's bulletin calls the Clive Davis Institute "the first and only program of its kind to provide professional business and artistic training toward a BFA in Recorded Music" (bulletins.nyu.edu)
•Bullet: 128-credit BFA with no tracks or concentrations: every student completes the same core in the Tisch School of the Arts
Training
•Bullet: Seven-part curriculum: professional development, business and technology, writing, history, and emergent media, production, performance, musicianship, and songwriting, global study away, and liberal arts
•Bullet: Production sequence includes Producing The Record Side A and Side B, Engineering The Record I and II, Critical Listening for the Recording Studio, and Digital Audio Workstations courses in ProTools, Logic, and Ableton Live
•Bullet: Songwriting and musicianship through Writing The Hit Song and Musicianship: Music Theory & Construction
•Bullet: Business courses include How the Contemporary Music Business Works, How Music Marketing Works, and Developing A Business Plan For Your Music Venture
Location
•Bullet: Based in Brooklyn at 370 Jay Street, which the bulletin describes as NYU's home for engineers, research scientists, game designers, media artists, and musicians to collaborate under one roof
Study Abroad
•Bullet: Every student studies away for one full-time semester, typically in the fall of the third year
•Bullet: The department's own Clive Davis Institute x Berlin: Future Pop Music Studies program at NYU Berlin offers up to 24 seats
