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Group Directed Study: Visual Development for Thesis Project

Develop paintings depicting the characters, setting, and mood of your own story. Your strong drawing and painting skills, vivid imagination, and visual problem solving skills will be useful.

Storyboarding for Film Genres

Learn to storyboard for a variety of film genres: comedy, drama, action, and musical. You’ll gain a comprehensive skill set by drawing, staging, and creating story sequences for animation and live action production. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 370.)

Fashion Business: Entrepreneurship

Become a fashion entrepreneur. By identifying market opportunities and establishing a unique point of view, you will develop a business plan to market and sell your own product or service.

Light and Color Perception

Design is a responsibility. As a designer, you’ll learn to harness the power of light and color to impact human emotional responses, influence way finding, and play a role in behavioral modification. Plus, explore how color and light affect perception and the interior environment and learn to use this knowledge… Read More

In the Mood for Interior Design

Join us for an exciting workshop in which you will explore the world of Interior Architecture & Design, while getting the opportunity to design a concept and mood board for your favorite fictional character from a movie, tv, or video game! Using our in-house Interior Design Materials Library, you will… Read More

Abstract Painting

You’ll explore modern art from its inception to today, discovering how form and color are distorted to elicit an emotional response, then applying this to your own painting interpretations. (This course is cross-listed with FA 423.)

Structures: Wood and Steel

Collaboration between architects and structural engineers determines the success and safety of a building. See architecture from the perspective of a structural engineer. You will evaluate the unique properties of wood and steel-common structural materials in the U.S. in response to gravity and lateral forces.

Design Development to Documentation

Utilizing design decisions and work done in IAD810, IAD812, and IAD834. You will create a design development presentation featuring construction drawings that include plans, elevations, and details.

Educational Psychology

Effective teaching starts with healthy psychological principles. Explore educational practices, student development and characteristics, learning processes, and teaching strategies to better understand your students and yourself. Course content is supported by fieldwork observations and interviews. (This course is cross-listed with ARE 600, GLA 600, and ARE 305.)

Theory and Movements in Contemporary Interior Architecture

Know your design history and the culture framework guiding its development. Focusing on major movements and innovations, you’ll examine the societal, political, historical, and economic influences that impacted art, architecture, design, furniture, and materials from the Industrial Revolution to today.