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  • 3.00 Credits

    Preparation for practical business procedures including tax questions, record keeping, and pricing of services.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Marketing for the Small Business provides an overview of basic marketing theory with a specific focus on the issues and challenges faced by the entrepreneur marketing the products or services of a small business. Topics include product development and positioning, pricing, distribution, advertising and promotion, explored through case analysis and discussion. Students will have an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding by developing their own marketing strategies for a hypothetical product or service. Satisfies: Liberal Arts elective requirement.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to the basic concepts required for understanding entrepreneurship. Students will learn entrepreneurial practices that are fundamental for successfully starting and maintaining a new business: developing a market feasibility study for a new business concept; assessing risk; creating viable opportunities; identifying and assembling the resources to start a new business. This class includes guest speakers with entrepreneurial experience in the art world. It also presents them with case studies for analysis and activities that will enable them to confront what it is like to be an entrepreneur and prepare them for real entrepreneurial experiences.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The program is designed to promote the success of new art teachers in the School District of Philadelphia through targeted support of peers led by an experienced art teacher. The Professional Development Network will respond to teacher concerns, building skills and strategies that will enhance their teaching. It is open to first- and second-year art teachers.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Observational drawing skills are fundamental to the process of visual inquiry and description of form, shape, and ideas. This course focuses on analytical seeing and methods for translating that visual experience into drawing. Through a variety of projects including still life, the human figure, and interior architecture, students explore concepts of line, value, proportion, spatial relationships, and composition. Emphasis is on depicting forms in space. The course is designed to develop visual vocabulary, perceptive awareness, eye-hand coordination, and aesthetic sensibility.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Understanding perspective enhances perceptual investigation and drawing. This course emphasizes freehand perspective skill and its role in the development of a drawing. Projects explore how to see for perspective drawing and how to use the conventions of linear perspective, including diminution, foreshortening, horizon line, and vanishing points. One- and two-point perspective systems are covered. Class sessions are designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the fundamental theories of perspective and the application of those systems to technical and observational drawing. Some assignments will take place on location.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Understanding perspective enhances perceptual investigation and drawing. This course emphasizes freehand perspective skill and its role in the development of a drawing. Projects explore how to see for perspective drawing and how to use the conventions of linear perspective, including diminution, foreshortening, horizon line, and vanishing points. One- and two-point perspective systems are covered. Class sessions are designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the fundamental theories of perspective and the application of those systems to technical and observational drawing. Some assignments will take place on location.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Visual fundamentals focuses on the concepts and principles of visual organization essential to all forms of two- and three-dimensional art and design. Projects in two dimensions explore texture, pattern, figure/ground, grouping principles, grid, symmetry, rhythm, and color. Three-dimensional projects investigate form, line, plane, shape, balance, and proportion, as well as the interaction of forms in real space. Students will build vocabulary, technical skills, critical awareness through a series of exercises using a variety of materials, processes, and tools. Emphasis is on creative thinking that develops skills in research, observation, and interpretation.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Understanding perspective enhances perceptual investigation and drawing. This course emphasizes freehand perspective skill and its role in the development of a drawing. Projects explore how to see for perspective drawing and how to use the conventions of linear perspective, including diminution, foreshortening, horizon line, and vanishing points. One- and two-point perspective systems are covered. Class sessions are designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the fundamental theories of perspective and the application of those systems to technical and observational drawing. Some assignments will take place on location.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Visual fundamentals focuses on the concepts and principles of visual organization essential to all forms of two- and three-dimensional art and design. Projects in two dimensions explore texture, pattern, figure/ground, grouping principles, grid, symmetry, rhythm, and color. Three-dimensional projects investigate form, line, plane, shape, balance, and proportion, as well as the interaction of forms in real space. Students will build vocabulary, technical skills, critical awareness through a series of exercises using a variety of materials, processes, and tools. Emphasis is on creative thinking that develops skills in research, observation, and interpretation.
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