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Fashion Business: Product Planning & Sourcing

Product-planning and sourcing strategies are key to success in global fashion. You will explore product categories, pricing strategies, and product-mix and assortment planning. You will evaluate sourcing and manufacturing opportunities to develop a product plan that reflect a company’s overall strategy and target customers.

Film History 3: Contemporary Cinema

Contemporary cinema has a rich pedigree. You’ll study the work of directors Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Jane Campion, David Lynch, The Coen Brothers, Lars Von Trier, Wong Kar Wai, as well as the Hollywood Blockbuster, Sundance Film Festival, Dogme 95, The Political Documentary, and Third World New Wave.

Acting Experience

Join us for a blast of improv, vocal warm-ups, and acting exercises! Boost your confidence for auditions, interviews, and beyond. You’ll learn memorization techniques, craft a monologue, and show it off in our final class. Bring your friends and family to watch your performance, which is followed by a Q&A… Read More

Power of Myth and Symbol

Delve into cultural mythologies and their symbolic representations. You’ll examine myths and symbols in modern society and identify these themes within your own work.

Digital Environment Sketching

Each landscape has an unique anatomy. You’ll study the architectural language and style of various cultures and time periods and learn to use draftsmanship, mood, story, symbolism, proportion, spatial relationships, and other environmental principles in your work.

Fashion Construction 1

Get the cutting and sewing skills for work in the apparel industry. You will learn both hand finishing and machine sewing techniques in wovens and create a notebook documenting your new skills.

Genres in Film

Explore dozens of film genres, including drama, comedy, westerns, science fiction, suspense, romantic comedy, mystery, horror, film noir, and more. You’ll study the unique styles of these various genre films and the filmmakers who found fame by making them.

Color Scripting

You’ll use cinematic composition, atmospheric use of color, and color continuity to complete a sixteen-frame color script. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 680 and VIS 380.)

Programming Fundamentals

Students will learn programming fundamentals which can be used as a foundation for learning advanced concepts or working within engine scripting systems. The course uses a simplified development environment to teach the basics of programming like variables, conditional logic, functions, objects, and classes.

AI for Visual Artists

You will be provided the framework for applying various AI tools to the creation of both realistic and imaginative imagery. Ethical considerations and opinions are discussed. Through creative exploration, students leverage text-to-image and large language model AI tools to integrate generative AI in the inspired image-making of contemporary art today. Read More