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Teaching Acoustics to Audio Students: A Middle Path

Authors: Boren, Braxton

AES Conference: 2021 AES International Audio Education Conference · Paper 1 · July 2021

Abstract

This paper describes the course Acoustics: Physics of Sound, which teaches the science of acoustics to Audio Technology majors. Pedagogically this course seeks to be more rigorous than typical introductory courses to non-science majors, yet also avoids the fully calculus-based of higher level engineering courses. Audio students’ salient strengths, including familiarity with critical listening, as well as software and microphones, can be leveraged to foster deeper understanding in the language they already know - that of sound itself.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 2021 AES International Audio Education Conference
Paper number
1
Publication date
July 6, 2021
Affiliation
American University, Washington, DC, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper