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Studio: Concept and Form

Learn design principles for creating spaces for people. You will utilize design, methodology, and space-making principles to gain fundamental knowledge and skills in environmental design and prepare for future architecture and landscape architecture studios.

Mythology for the Modern World

Applying standard analytical models to myths, you’ll study diverse cultural mythologies and their symbolic representations and learn to recognize mythic forms and how they operate in ancient, tribal, and modern cultures.

Creative Writing for the Digital Landscape

Writing is paying attention. You’ll gain writing and reporting skills to create compelling entertainment, news, informational, and instructional stories for web, radio, and television. (This course is cross-listed with LA 105.)

Structures

Gain an understanding of how structural systems and materials impact architectural form and structural design. You will study the elements, connections, and organizations used in the construction process, from elemental to complex structures in different materials.

Portfolio Development

For your MFA Midpoint or MA Final Portfolio Review, you’ll develop a written thesis or artist statement, story preparation, story analysis, color progression, concept drawing, character studies, environment studies, prop studies, beat boards, and project presentations.

The Visual Elements of Story

Master the visual elements of story, including color and design, color theory, staging and composition, camera angles, perspective principles, and typography. You’ll also learn film vocabulary.

Organic Modeling

Master modeling techniques like texturing, shading, and character set-up. Using nurbs, polygon, and subdivision modeling, you’ll finish at least one demo reel of quality modeling for your final project. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 313.)

Clothed Figure Painting 1

Learn to understand the body under clothing. You’ll revisit proportion, gesture, light, shadow, value, and color relationships to structure, mass, and form. Plus, learn various properties of clothing, drapery, and the relation of the figure to its environment. Read More

Fashion Business: Professional Practices & Portfolio

Explore careers in fashion. You will examine career options, develop personal branding and resumes, prepare for job interviews, and build digital and physical portfolios to support your transition from student to professional in the fashion industry.

Figure Modeling

You’ll develop personal interpretations of the human form.