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Portfolio Preparation and Self Promotion

Make illustration your business. Most working illustrators also have skills in accounting, interviewing, taxes, legal matters, self-marketing, agent selection, self-promotion, and more. You’ll learn to reproduce, present, and sell your artwork.

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.

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.

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

Fashion Business: Digital Marketing & Social Media

Marketing via social media can be tricky. You will leverage the power of digital and social media platforms by developing a digital marketing strategy that is integrated with traditional marketing channels. (This course is cross-listed with FSH 655.)

Digital Media: Digital Manipulation

Combine essential camera and digital imaging skills to augment your imagery. Using a camera for reference, inspiration, and digital imaging to manipulate photo images, you’ll learn to create narrative content, increasing your skills in a fun yet challenging environment. Phone camera or digital camera and computer access are required.