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Pipeline Process for Thesis

Make a plan to finish your thesis. With help from your instructor and peers, you’ll work to refine your concept, address challenges, and do the visual, verbal, and written work to advance your thesis toward completion.

Writer-Director Intensive 1

Students will generate ideas for a short film. They will acquire the skills necessary to tell stories in a logical and emotionally connective way. Students will develop either original ideas or ideas adapted from existing material, through the outline stage.

Fashion Business: Manufacturing

The manufacturing process is complex. Learn how apparel goes from design concept to consumer, including production, sourcing, control, planning, costing, resource allocation, and feasibility.

Personal Styling

Understand personal styling. Hands-on projects will help you analyze and practice real-life situations, gaining the creative and organizational skills to style personal clients and celebrities.

Fashion Business: Merchandising Principles

Put your math skills to work. In the role of a buyer, you will create a successful retail business through seasonal financial planning, assortment planning, vendor negotiation, and inventory management.

Anthropology: Experiencing Culture

Develop your intercultural communication skills as a visual artist. You’ll use anthropological methods to analyze cultural patterns within and across social groups, applying these principles to art, design, and marketing in contemporary society.

Writing for Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Effective strategies for professional comic book scriptwriting are taught in this course. You will read graphic novels and critical writing about comics which emphasize the physical space words occupy. You will produce a completed comic book script by the end of the semester. (This course is cross-listed with ILL 217.)

Quick Studies

Develop your intuitive skills for paint handling by producing painted quick studies. These on-the-fly studies in acrylics or oils will give you color, composition, paint handling, and quick indication-of-subject abilities, capturing the essence of the subject. (This course is cross-listed with FA 644.)