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  • 1.00 Credits

    Upon successful completion of this course, student should: Course Objectives (1) Possess technical proficiency (2) Apply creativity and artistry to movement (3) Demonstrate advanced performance qualities (4) Evaluate their personal style and adapt it to choreography (5) Possess the ability to perform improvisational movement
  • 2.00 Credits

    Additional studies in Ballet. Course Objectives (1) The Student will reinforce a fundamental technical skill set that has been achieved during required coursework (2) The student will consistently and accurately demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of classical ballet vocabulary at the Ballet VI level. (3) The student will consistently demonstrate the proper use of alignment, placement, weight distribution, oppositions and turnout to achieve freedom of movement while executing Ballet VI vocabulary and classroom exercises. (4) The student will further develop precision, strength, core strength, balance, endurance, and flexibility while performing Ballet VI vocabulary and classroom exercises. (5) The student will further develop an understanding of the proper use of head, épaulement, and focus in ballet technique. (6) The student will continue to develop and effectively use elements of time, such as rhythm, meter, and tempo to precisely articulate his/her ballet technique. (7) The student will further develop the ability to use musical phrasing, texture, dynamics and breadth of movement to enhance technique and artistic expression. (8) The student will implement change (the application of corrections) through observation and practice. (9) The student will increase his/her intellectual awareness of the field through assignments.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An exploration of capacity-building, creative / entrepreneurial strategy, and the use of technology and communication strategy as applied to the arts and culture sector. Topics include relationships between art, artist and audience, marketing and branding, common business models and failing practices, assumptions that are suffocating the field, as well as gender-, race-, and class-disparities in the arts. Together we will uncover opportunities for artists, creatives, and future arts managers in current arts and culture ecosystems. By the completion of this course, students will have gained significantly experience and shared knowledge to work together to creatively act to solve problems facing the cultural sector as well as thrive in their chosen pursuits within the field. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Compose a project budget, mission and vision statement. (2) Demonstrate general understanding of the major political, technological and economic difficulties facing the dance sector, and their relevance to the cultural sector at large. (3) Demonstrate functional knowledge and ability to communicate clearly via spoken and written presentation, inclusive of blog writing, vlog creation, and social media platforms. (4) Demonstrate a clearer understanding of how the dance industry works. (5) Demonstrate functional knowledge of marketing. (6) Demonstrate functional knowledge of various technologies, including web-based platforms.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course examines the creation of modern day animation and visual effects and how these images, design paradigms, techniques were developed from historical imagery, painting and design. Students will develop the aesthetics knowledge and skills necessary to be a successful designer for digital visual arts and new media. Course Objectives (1) Demonstrate understanding of how animators use classical composition to make films more effective (2) Apply ideas of color theory to animation and concept art (3) Use gesture to convey emotion in drawing (4) Use sequential images for storytelling and visual communication (5) Exhibit understanding perspective drawing (6) Exhibit understanding of concept art and character design (7) Exhibit understanding of basic animation principles (8) Identify major developments and important innovators in the history of animation
  • 3.00 Credits

    Course Description: This course provides students with an overview of the tools used in Digital Media. Course Objectives (1) Explain the technical concepts of digital media (2) Work with proficiency in digital media/motion graphics. (3) Take an idea for an animiation from conceptualization through excecution (4) Articulate designs intentions for work addressing aesthetic and technical concerns (5) Discover and develop a personal aesthetic and style and apply this to a project that reflects this Listed Topics: Compositing Images, Creating graphics for animation, Introduction to motion graphics, Introduction to visual effects, Creation of an individual project using digital tools.
  • 3.00 Credits

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  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction for animation students to the basic principles, practices, and fundamentals of cinema production. Students learn the fundamentals of single-camera production including the basic aesthetic and technical aspects of producing, directing, cinematography, and film editing. Students also learn the specific requirements of production needed for creating convincing visual effects and motion study for animation. This course is open to Animation and Visual Effects students only. Pre-requisite: DIGI 101. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Operate professional video cameras and editing software. (2) Employ a three-act structure to short films. (3) Exercise appropriate editing style and rhythm for narrative. (4) Use composition, lighting, editing and sound to express emotional tone. (5) Create pictorial and narrative continuity through shooting and editing. (6) Create atmosphere and mood with lighting. (7) Create live action film appropriate for successful visual effects compositing. (8) Use live action footage as a tool to help create believable movement in animation. (9) Work as part of a production team.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Course Description: This course provides a historical overview of the evolution of visual effects, as well as an introduction to the techniques of digital visual effects for film and video. Students will be introduced to the seminal film works leading to the state of the contemporary visual effects work. The will also learn the fundamental applications of visual effects developing storyboards and pre-visualizations and putting them into practice with class exercises. Prerequisite: DIGI102 Course Objectives (1) Change, combine and manipulate still images, animation and live action. (2) Effective animation of two-dimensional elements using the computer (3) Creation of a variety of special effects (4) Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and After Effects (5) Work as part of a production team to create a special effects short film.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Course Description: An introduction to general animation techniques, this course combines theoretical elements of film aesthetics with practical experience in animation filmmaking. Students are exposed to all types of animated film production through lectures, film presentations, studio work and outside assignments. Class projects include: drawn animation, cell animation, stops motion, clay animation, rotoscoping and experimental techniques. This course is a prerequisite for all intermedia and advanced animation courses. Prerequisite: DIGI 102. Course Objectives (1) Create animation with a variety of techniques commonly used in the industry (2) Use a variety of 2d media (both digital and traditional) to create different visual styles in animation (3) Use stop motion techniques to create animation (4) Use experimental techniques such as sand and paint animation (5) Demonstrate an understanding of timing and movement as it relates to the aforementioned techniques (6) Work with technical equiment such as cameras, computers and lighting.
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