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Fashion Business: Retail Operations Apprenticeship

Experience how to run, operate, and manage a real fashion retail e-commerce business and brick-and-mortar stores. You will merchandise the online store and a selling floor, manage sales, oversee inventory, plan promotions, present products in stores, and address client issues while working on teams. (This course is cross-listed with FSH… Read More

Introduction to Radio/Podcasting

Produce your own podcasts. You’ll learn the professional roles associated with radio broadcasting and gain basic audio editing skills, interviewing techniques, and radio production abilities. (This course is cross-listed with LA 150.)

History and Technology of VFX and Computer Animation

The history of special effects is rich with innovation. You’ll examine it all—from in-camera techniques, traditional stop motion, motion control, matte paintings, and miniatures to modern computer-generated visual effects and animation, compositing, and production methodology.

Environmental Control Systems

Learn the fundamental concepts of heating, cooling, plumbing, and ventilation in buildings to conserve our valuable natural resources. You’ll integrate environmental control systems with architectural design to increase human comfort and make evidence-based decisions using building performance simulation tools. (This course is cross-listed with ARH 605.)

Securing Rights and Agreements for Film

Learn the business side of show business. You’ll write option/purchase, submission, producer, employment, non-disclosure, and negotiating agreements. Plus, you’ll explore right-to-work laws, insurance requirements, financing, intellectual property protection, negotiating fees, profit participation, compensation, and more. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 867.)

Blogging: Content Creation and Promotion

Make your mark in the blogosphere. You will analyze various elements of successful blogging and get practical experience conceptualizing, producing, and marketing your own blog as a creative professional. (This course is cross-listed with LA 218.)

Ceramics: Expressions in Clay

Clay is an expressive medium. Using various sculptural techniques, you’ll gain a variety of painterly and contemporary low fire abilities. (This course is cross-listed with FASCU 624.)

Mobile and Social Media Journalism

Report from where the action is. You will focus on the digital tools that empower today’s journalists to produce real-time, interactive news stories. By end of the semester, you’ll create an online writing portfolio using popular apps.

Podcast Production and Promotion

Explore podcasts from start to finish. You’ll write, host, record, and edit an original feature-length podcast to publish on iTunes and promote it using social media. Learn how concept development and various formats and styles affect a podcast. (This course is cross-listed with COM 750 and LA 250.)

Thesis Implementation and Portfolio Development

You’ll enjoy individual instruction, receive directed critiques, and learn to master the written and graphic portions of your final thesis project and portfolio.