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Typography 2: Formalizing Structure

Transform text into visually engaging communications for both print and screen experiences. Building on Typography 1, you’ll focus on building more complicated typographic compositions through an understanding of page and paragraph aesthetics, legibility across various media, typographic expression, and integration of visual imagery.

Fantasy Illustration

Creatively bring your individual style and imagination to life in the fantasy genre. Combining reference and invented elements, you’ll learn to design and depict believable characters, creatures, environments, and apparatus while producing five portfolio-quality images.

Improvisation 2

Take your improvisational skills to the next level. You’ll learn to use improvisation and observation techniques to create spontaneous story lines and authentic characters.

Programming

Study what you want! For your thesis project, you will research the needs of a community in a building site or a specialty area to create a programming booklet and presentation of your findings. You must first pass your midpoint review.

Balancing Creativity and Profitability

Show that you have mastered the skills to steer the creative direction for an organization’s web or mobile presence. You’ll study what makes an organization’s presence succeed or fail. Read More

Content Creation: Making the Documentary

Become a documentary filmmaker. In this course you will explore the roots and trajectory of this ever-expanding form of filmmaking. You will watch numerous award-winning documentaries to examine how the genre pushes boundaries to tell real stories. You will conceptualize, shoot and edit your own documentary projects. (This course is… Read More

Social Media Data Analytics

This course provides a deeper understanding of social media data insights, including tracking online performance, A/B testing, segmentation, context and conversion attribution, defining KPI (Key Performance Indicators), and other metrics. Emphasis will be placed on interpreting data to evaluate social media performance. (This course is cross-listed with LA 316.)

Shooting the Web Series

Students will work in a real world television series environment to produce, direct, shoot, production design, and edit multiple episodes of a web series. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 498SWS and MPT 699SWS.)

Rapid Ideation Creation Sketching for Concept Art

We call it a boot camp, but there’s nothing basic about our training. As a prospective concept artist, you’ll gain the skills required to create thumbnails, ideations, and concept drawings with speed and accuracy. You’ll produce volumes of sketches along the journey.

The Art and Ideology of the 20th Century

What is art? Or modernism? You’ll take a deep dive into the 20th century, exploring the artists, philosophers, cultural phenomena, stylistic movements, and world of ideas that shaped the century.