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Cinematic Storytelling

Get hands-on experience with the entire filmmaking process. Functioning in a range of creative and technical roles including: Director, Cinematographer and Editor, you’ll collaborate with other students to produce a piece of digital content.

English Composition: Creative Persuasion and Argument

Gain the rhetorical tools to support your point of view and express your opinion. You’ll examine the art of persuasion by honing your research and argumentation skills and writing your own thesis-based expository essays.

Popular Topics in Health, Nutrition, and Physiology

Emerson said the first wealth is health. Gain the scientific background required to interpret health claims and make informed personal decisions. You’ll study genetically engineered food, nutritional supplements, drugs, addiction, stem cell research, and environmental health.

History of Fashion

Focus on key moments in fashion history across time and culture as reference points for current fashion and design. You will explore modes of dress and ideals of beauty by highlighting the sources of influence on current fashion.

Film Music Appreciation

Learn the history of film music, from the birth of sound film to today. You will trace the historical development of the art of film music and how it supports the narrative elements of the story.

Introduction to Radio/Podcasting

Produce your own podcasts. You’ll learn the professional roles associated with radio broadcasting and gain basic audio editing skills, interviewing techniques, and radio production abilities. (This course is cross-listed with COM 150.)

Character Design 1: Bringing Characters to Life

Explore quick drawing, line-of-action, volume, and caricature skills will help as you design original characters, make model sheets and turnarounds.

Visual Development 2

You’ll use your vivid imagination and strong drawing and painting skills to help you create characters and environments that set the mood of a story.

Paperback Book Covers

You will use different media and techniques to create original cover art from photo references for genres encompassing science-fiction fantasy: fairy tales, cyberpunk, space; fiction: teen and young adult, historical fiction, gothic horror; romance: enemies to lovers, romantic suspense, forbidden love; mystery and suspense, and children’s book. (This course is… Read More

Editorial Illustration

You will develop a personal communication approach to viewpoints on a specific subject or situation in this course. This includes an exploration of visual design used to illustrate words while creating portfolio pieces for the magazine market. (This course is cross-listed with ILL 378.)