• Concentrations and course offerings may vary by campus and/or by program modality.  Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for the course availability each term at your campus or within your program modality. 
  • Certain options within the program may be required at certain campuses or for certain program modalities.  Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for requirements at your campus or for your program modality. 

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

Universitywide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

NUpath requirements Creative Expression/Innovation (EI), Analyzing/Using Data (AD), Interpreting Culture (IC), Natural/Designed World (ND), Differences/Diversity (DD), Writing-Intensive (WI), and Capstone Experience(CE) are met through the major course requirements. All other NUpath requirements must be met through electives.

Game Design Courses

ARTF 1000Art and Design at Northeastern1
Game Design Required
GAME 1110Games and Society4
GAME 2500Foundations of Game Design4
GAME 2950Game Studio4
GAME 3400Level Design and Game Architecture4
GAME 3700Rapid Idea Prototyping for Games4
GAME 3800Game Concept Development4
Art + Design Electives
Complete four courses from the following:16
Any course in ARTD, ARTE, ARTF, ARTG, ARTH, and GAME subject areas as long as prerequisites have been met.
If GAME 4000 Topics in Game Design or ARTD 3000 Topics in Media Arts (or any other topics course in the subjects listed above) is completed more than once, multiple completions may be allowed toward the electives.

Music Requirements

Music Theory Placement
All students must take a music placement exam. Students who place into MUSC 1201 will substitute a general elective course for the following course:
MUSC 1119Fundamentals of Western Music Theory4
Music Theory and Composition
MUSC 1201Music Theory 14
MUSC 1202Music Theory 24
Complete two of the following:8
Algebra and Geometry of Music
Music Perception and Cognition
Music Analysis Seminar
Sound Design
Music in Context
Complete one of the following:4
Music in Everyday Life
Music in Everyday Life
and Lab for MUSC 1002
Contemporary / Popular Music
Complete one of the following:4
Making a Musical: Analysis, Craft, and Creation
Black Popular Music
Popular Music Since 1945
Topics in American Music
Punk Rock
40,000 Years of Music Technology
The Festival Experience
Divas, DJs, and Double Standards
Music, Sound, and the Screen
The World of Choral Music
Sounding Human
Music and the Racial Imagination
Sound and the Sacred
Global Music Industries in Context
Hip Hop in the Music Industry
Music Technology Requirements
MUSC 2350Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Music4
MUST 1220Introduction to Music Technology4
MUST 2102Composing with Digital Technologies4
MUST 2431Computer Music Fundamentals4
Music Technology Electives
Complete two of the following:8
Music and the Brain Research
Musical Interactions in Extended Reality
Digital Audio Signal Processing
Electronics for Music
Embedded Audio Programming
Special Topics in Music Technology
Composition for Electronic Instruments
Special Topics in Music Technology

Integrative Requirement

Note: MUST 1220 is already required in the Music Technology Requirements section.
Introduction to Music Technology
Capstone
GAME 4700Game Design Capstone4
MUST 4611Music Technology Capstone4

Combined Major Credit Requirement

Complete 96 semester hours in the major.

Music Grade Requirement

Students must maintain at least a 2.667 GPA (B– average) in the requirements of the music half of the combined major and also complete all required music courses with grades of at least C. Students who fail to meet the above standards will be placed on departmental probation; those who remain on probation for two consecutive semesters will be dropped from the major.

Program Requirement

128 total semester hours required

Sample Pattern, Four Years, Two Co-ops in Spring/Summer 1

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
ARTF 1000 or MUSC 10001GAME 25004Art + design elective4Vacation
ENGW 11114MUSC 12024Art + design elective4 
GAME 11104MUSC 23504  
MUSC 12014MUST 12204  
Elective4   
 17 16 8 0
Year 2
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
EEAM 20001Co-op0Co-op0ENGW 33024
GAME 29504Elective (online)4 Art + design elective4
GAME 34004   
MUSC 1002
and MUSC 1003
4   
MUST 21024   
 17 4 0 8
Year 3
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
GAME 37004Co-op0Co-op0Elective4
MUSC 3541, 2111, or 33004Elective (online)4 Elective4
MUST 24314   
Contemporary music requirement4   
 16 4 0 8
Year 4
FallHoursSpringHours  
GAME 38004GAME 47004  
MUSC 3541, 2111, or 33004Computing and social issues4  
Art + design elective4Music technology elective4  
Music technology elective4Elective4  
 16 16  
Total Hours: 130