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Fall Thesis Development

Learn and apply user experience concepts and processes to your thesis project. Working through all stages of your interactive thesis project with fellow graduate students, you’ll solidify the research, target audience, personas, information architecture, wireframes, and more via an iterative workflow. (This course is cross-listed with IXD 820 and IXD… Read More

Data Structures and Algorithms

Take the leap from coder to software engineer. You will learn about asymptotic analysis of the various algorithms involved with arrays, linked lists, queues, stacks, strings, hash tables, trees, graphs, and more.

Fashion Business: Digital Techniques

You will learn to work fluidly between graphic design software programs and create concept boards, branding, merchandising and production documents, and marketing collateral to communicate information effectively.

Drawing Bootcamp: Dynamic Sketching

Improve your ability to create concept art by sketching various hard surfaces and organic subjects. You’ll start your own library of reference materials, including animals, vehicles, buildings, people, and assorted materials.

Production Design Foundations

While learning all about how a movie art department operates under the leadership of the Production Designer, you will have the opportunity to develop the visual style of how you “see” stories come to life. The basic roles and responsibilities of the creative team will be explored allowing you to… Read More

Writing for TV Series 1 (Fall)

You’ll continue the work on your original pilot begun in WRI 645/250 and expand upon your bible. (This course is cross-listed with WRI 250.)

Textiles: Knit Fabric Construction

Learn how to design and create knit fabrics. You will practice surface design methods such as felting, brushing, and basic macrame. Compose knit materials using hand-knit and crochet techniques and a mix of yarn types.

Teaching Diverse Audiences

Meet the diverse educational needs of art students by fortifying your curriculum with culture and by developing strategies to identify language needs and adapt your teaching to address them. Course content is supported by fieldwork observations and interviews.

Animal and Creature Animation

You will create animations that mimic real and stylized animal locomotion. Realistic creature rigs and animal reference will be analyzed to understand movement and muscles. You will apply research and physics to block and animate a quadruped. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 327.)

Composition and Painting

Increase the quality, scope, and breadth of your imaginative compositions. Make better paintings through a better understanding of the creative process and a deep dive into composition, value, pattern, tone, staging, mood, and color theories.