SUBJECTS

Communication/Graphic Design

This course is great for students interested in Graphic Design or Communication Design as a field of major. The course explores the design process to develop and refine design portfolio works for effective visual communication. Some of the concepts covered include typography, page layout, balance, composition, design color theory, etc.

Relevant Career Fields:
Graphic Design, Digital Design, Advertising and Branding, Corporate Communications, Advanced Study

Fashion Design

This course prepares students who are interested in pursuing a Fashion Design degree. The course covers the basics of fashion design, including fashion illustration, fashion design process, garment making, sewing, pattern-making, and draping, to create projects that incorporate students’ unique approaches and interests in fashion.

Relevant Career Fields:
Fashion Design, Styling, Merchandising, marketing-communications, Public Relations, Advanced Study

Menswear

This course is designed for students interested in pursuing a Menswear degree. The course covers the multifold phases in design, from concept development to production, including fashion illustration, garment making, sewing, pattern-making, and draping. Students will create portfolio projects that show the interest in fashion design that is tailored to menswear, specifically.

Relevant Career Fields:
Fashion Design, Styling, Merchandising, marketing-communications, Public Relations, Advanced Study

Industrial / Product Design

In this course, students learn about the basic product design process in the current social landscape. Closely linked with “design” and products around us, Industrial / Product Design course will use a variety of mediums and design concepts to think about spatial composition, sketching, and materials to design and make products and prototypes for their portfolio work.

Relevant Career Fields: Industrial Design, Product Development, Manufacturing, Furniture Design, Humanitarian and Service Design, Health Design, Toy Design

Interior Design

Students in this course will learn about constructing and sketching interior space, and the spatial concepts associated with it. The course will cover a range of interiors, both real and virtual, to create experiment-driven projects that incorporate a variety of mediums to make projects thought-provoking conceptually and appealing visually.

Relevant Career Fields: Interior Design, Sustainable Design, Set Design, Exhibition Design, Historic Preservation, Consulting, Graduate Study

Illustration

This course is designed so that students can learn about the basic concepts of narrative-based storytelling through visual works. Students will learn about how to express ideas and emotions visually in both traditional and modern mediums. The course will also expose students to modern examples of illustration in children’s books, graphic novels, animation, fine art, publishing, and so on.

Relevant Career Fields: Illustration, Publishing, Advertising, Motion Graphics, Fine Art, Animation, Graduate Study

Textiles Design

This course explores the design process and concepts in creating fabric and fine art. Students will work closely with the concept of patternmaking, how patterns are used in everyday objects, including but not limited to clothing, home decoration, and so on. Exploring a variety of fabrics in different materials, patterns, and textures, students will learn how to utilize them in their creative portfolio projects to show their interests in the subject.

Relevant Career Fields:
Fashion Design, Textile Design, Textiles Research, Teaching, Design Journalism

Animation

This course prepares students interested in pursuing an Animation degree or relevant field. The course will cover many aspects of animation production, including sound effects, character development, storyboarding, and storytelling to create projects with their own narratives and voices. The course encompasses both traditional and digital tools so that the students can express and create with wider options to visualize and develop their experimentative mindset/concepts.

Relevant Career Fields:
Stop Motion Animator, Flash Animator, Composing Artist, Storyboard Artist, Art Director, VFX Artist, Advertising

Digital Art

This course prepares students interested in Digital Art and pursuing a relevant field. The course deals with basic new technologies and basic conceptual theories, as well as the application of those concepts in hands-on projects that fit for an experimental body of portfolio works. The students will develop concepts and ideas with their own artistic lens for projects that use interactive media, digital animation, and experimental fine arts.

Relevant Career Fields:
Motion Artist, Web Designer, UI/UX Designer, Visual Designer, Art Director, Augmented Reality Designer, Animator, Mobile Designer, Character Animator, VFX Artist

Jewelry & Accessories Design

This course prepares students interested in pursuing a Jewelry & Accessory Design degree. The course will cover the multifaceted understanding and the design process of jewelry design, such as fine jewelry, fashion jewelry, and more contemporary jewelry, which becomes the bedrock of a jewelry design degree at a future accredited institution and of a successful career as a jewelry designer.

Relevant Career Fields:
Jewelry Designer, Accessories Designer,

Digital Photography

This course is for students interested in the Photography field as a major and a professional field. Students will focus on developing technical and conceptual skills in digital photography, dealing with both composition, light, shadows, and digital editing. The course encourages students to make works that serve as a stepping stone that focuses on showing their interest in basic photography, combining mixed media to create works to train them with basic visual arts techniques in preparation for an accredited degree.

Relevant Career Fields: Photography, Photo Editing, Photojournalism, Publishing, Gallery Management, Studio Management, Fine Art, Arts Administration, Graduate Study

Drawing

This is a fundamental Drawing course that covers the rudimentary elements of drawing, the most important aspect of visual arts. Students will work with both traditional and modern mediums, such as charcoal, watercolor, pastels, and graphite, and explore gesture, mark making, the construction of visual/spatial space, as well as symbol and storytelling. The formal study will also accompany along the way varied drawing modes, such as abstraction, figurative, and the combination of both.

Relevant Career Fields:
Fine Artist, Illustrator, Animator, Architect, Interior Design

Painting

This course deals with basic painting skills and techniques in a variety of painting mediums, such as watercolor, acrylic, guache, and more. Students will navigate through old and new modes, representational and abstract, through 2D and 3D concepts, with creative and risk-taking expression for unique works. Some fundamental formal concepts covered will include symbol, materiality, storytelling, color theory, composition, markmaking, and so on. The course will also encourage students to develop conceptual thinking and how to visualize it through medium, form, and content.

Relevant Career Fields:
Fine Artist, Illustrator, Exhibition Designer, Printmaker, College Professor, Curator, General Art Teacher, Exhibition Designer

Sculpture

This course is especially beneficial for students interested in the field of Sculpture or relevant. Our cross-disciplinary approach to technical, theoretical, and practical making processes prepare students with the creative and foundational skillset required of any aspiring art students who would like to strengthen their technical, as well as conceptual development before college/university degree curricula. The course will deal with materials, such as wood, metal, wire, foam core, plexi glass, and a more variety of materials/objects, to create creative projects.

Relevant Career Fields:
Fine Artist, Sculptor, College Professor, Industrial Designer, General Art Teacher, Exhibition Designer

Mixed Media

This course is designed to expose students to a variety of mediums and adequate skills and techniques. Students will learn how to utilize such skills and techniques to effectively visualize their concepts and ideas in their portfolio works. Both traditional art mediums, such as acrylic paint, watercolor, charcoal, pastels, and graphite, and more industrial and/or object-based materials, such as wood, found objects, metal wire, and more, could be combined to create creative projects.

Relevant Career Fields:
Fashion Design, Styling, Merchandising, marketing-communications, Public Relations, Advanced Study