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Motion Quick Sketching

Speak the language of animators, story artists, and game developers. You’ll learn the standard professional note taking techniques they use to communicate ideas to coworkers.

Studio Photography with a Smartphone

Master smartphone photography in our vibrant downtown San Francisco studios! Learn the tricks of the trade for capturing stunning images using your mobile phone, from color and light to framing and composition. With pro models and set props, you’ll create a sleek final series ready for exhibition!

Traditional Materials, Tools, and Techniques in Art

Learn about the materials, tools, and techniques of the past and present. You’ll explore art and the art-making process through hands-on studio work, theoretical investigation, weekly written assignments, and a final research paper focusing on a particular material/technique.

Fashion Business: Buying Fundamentals

Apply your basic math skills to the retail buying process. You will analyze various merchandising organizations to learn sales planning, open-to-buy, and components of profitability.

Architectural History: Modernism and its Global Impact

Learn about the development of architecture and urbanism since the Industrial Revolution. You will examine cultural and technological implications on contemporary design and trace the global impact of the modern movement.

The Music Mix

Creating the final mix in music production is an art. You’ll learn to balance elements in the mix, signal processing, equalization, compression and reverb to produce polished final mixes. (This course is cross-listed with MUS 415.)

Survey of Landscape Architecture

Today’s landscape architect is a dynamic, passionate professional. You’ll gain a brief history of the profession and focus on the challenges, opportunities and responsibilities of landscape architecture in the 21st century. (This course is cross-listed with LAN 117.)

Masters Portfolio

Create a portfolio that shine. You’ll strengthen the weak points of your portfolio by developing your personal brand, including business cards, a design-focused resume, logo, and a new case-study. You’ll also examine past portfolio projects, changing, removing, and adding to them as necessary.

Site Design and Mapping

Experience the dynamic interdisciplinary nature of site design. Taking physical characteristics, regulatory parameters, accessibility, and sustainable design principles into consideration, you’ll develop a site design that combines your skills and understanding of topography, landscape, and urban design.

Programming and Culture

Explore design through humanistic and sociological lens. You will learn to observe, gather, and interpret cultural information into ideas that can shape the organization, form, and intentions of architecture and urban space. (This course is cross-listed with LAN 292.)