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Songwriting in Popular Music

Explore the history, techniques, and styles of pop music. You’ll learn to write and arrange songs in various genres and forms.

Design Competition

The challenge is to design a product that does not currently exist. You’ll focus on invention, innovation, sustainability, and intensive research. You’ll apply all skills learned to your final presentations, including developmental sketches, orthographic drawings, sketch models, sketch renderings, and either digital 3D models or hard models.

Organic Modeling 3

The production industry continues to evolve, demanding more from the emerging artist. To understand the mechanics of motion in the musculoskeletal system of the human body, you’ll pose and sculpt models with accurate balance, weight, and anatomy.

Environment Modeling for Games: Principles

Study 3D game art production for environments. You will gain block out, UV mapping, texturing, and iterative development skills to develop your 3D scenes. Plus, learn to identify the best modeling practice for a given environment.

Spanish 2: Conversational Spanish

Increase your cultural awareness and conversational Spanish skills. Through experiences and true-to-life situations, you’ll learn idioms, useful phrases, and conversational patterns in Spanish.

Art of the Italian Baroque

Study Italian art and architecture from 1600 to 1700 through an appraisal of the art in its context alongside a close reading of primary and secondary source material.

The Rendered Figure

Learn proportions and structure of the human figure. Gain chiaroscuro skills in the correct application of light/shadow, centering, as well as advancing/receding light to describe the figure as dimensional form. Draw from both nude and clothed figure, focusing on proportions, rhythm, stretch, compression, and expression. Learn to edit, idealize, and… Read More

Introduction to Metal Casting

Gain skills in both ancient and modern casting techniques. Working with bronze, silver, and gold, you’ll learn both centrifugal and vacuum techniques, injection mold making, gating, investing, metal pouring, and finishing. (This course is cross-listed with JEM 649.)

Art History Thesis – Renaissance and Early Modern

Write an original thesis on the art/architecture of the Renaissance or Early Modern periods. You will independently craft a scholarly idea/argument on a subject/theme of your choice (the Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, or 18th/19th centuries), before writing a final thesis on the same topic with the support of a specialist advisor.

3D Printing and Modeling

Learn professional 3D modeling techniques specifically for using a 3D printer. Learn it all: 3D modeling, various options in printing materials, various printing processes, preparing files for 3D printing, and post-processing methods. (This course is cross-listed with JEM 243.)