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Lighting 1: The Art of Seeing Light

Explore the dynamics of lighting for narrative motion picture. Shooting in B and W and Color, film and digital formats, you will learn how diffusion, contrast ratios, exposure control, light placement, electricity and safety, and other factors affect the overall design of your work.

Textile Design: Senior Thesis (Fall)

Integrate technical skills and design thinking to create innovative textile collections grounded in material choices. You will apply advanced surface treatments, fabric manipulation, and printing techniques to a range of textiles, including those selected for sustainability.

History of the Recording Industry

Explore the historical evolution of the recorded music industry in a way that helps you understand your place in it. You’ll study changes in technology and laws to understand the shifting economics of today, and an anticipation of tomorrow.

Strategies for Branding

Brands are the means by which organizations differentiate themselves. Building on skills learned in Branding Principles, you will find new ways to bring brands to life, extend brands into new territory, and make brands more interesting, engaging, and relevant.

English for Art Purposes 4

Strengthen your language and independent learning skills so that you will be prepared for advanced coursework in your major after your EAP courses.

Texture and Light

Create and manage textures using hand-painted and procedural methods in 2D and 3D applications. You will identify textures that define the different properties of 3D surfaces and use UV mapping techniques to correctly apply 2D textures to a 3D object. (This course will be cross-listed with GAM 621.)

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

Drawing for Fashion

Develop foundational skills in design sketching through observation and replication. You will become familiar with body proportions, basic human anatomy, and figure balance.

Music Production with Logic Pro

Begin an advanced exploration of music production within the sophisticated framework of Apple’s Logic Pro X software. Enhance your proficiency in MIDI composition, master dynamic rhythmic frameworks, enhance song arrangement, and seamlessly integrate audio with video components.

Feature Film 2 (Fall)

You’ll begin work on your adapted screenplay from a public domain work that was outlined in WRI 622/325. (This course is cross-listed with WRI 809A.)