This course is all about getting comfortable in the studio and understanding how to use lighting to bring your photos to life. You’ll experiment with strobes, softboxes, reflectors, and light meters while learning how to photograph everything from products to portraits. Whether you’re lighting a single object or working with a model, you’ll get hands-on experience using the gear and techniques that commercial photographers rely on every day. 

In this class, you’ll create visual identities from the ground up—logos, colors, type, and more—while working through real-world branding challenges. You’ll get to design full brand systems and apply them across print, web, and physical spaces. Along the way, we’ll talk about how branding connects to strategy, marketing, and audience perception.

This course is all about helping students figure out what’s next after graduation. They’ll explore career options in the creative field and pick up practical skills like how to apply for opportunities, talk about their work, and start building a professional presence. Whether they're into painting, sculpture, design, or anything in between, this class provides the tools and support to start shaping a path as an artist.

This course looks at how children—from birth to age six—experience the world through images, stories, and creativity. You’ll question traditional ideas about child development, think about how culture shapes our views of kids, and explore how art can be a meaningful form of communication for them. Expect a mix of hands-on studio projects, reading and writing, class discussions, and real-world teaching experiences. You’ll also design and carry out your own case study working with a young learner. 

In this class, you’ll look at how photos connect to bigger social, political, and historical issues. The focus might shift—depending on the instructor—from a specific place to a particular moment in time. Along the way, you’ll sharpen your skills in looking, thinking, reading, and writing about images, and join in plenty of thoughtful conversations.

Building on the foundations from Graphic Communications 1012, this course dives deeper into print media, finishing technologies, and production management. It offers hands-on experience with materials, equipment, and production workflows, covering how text and images are prepared for output, as well as finishing processes and quality control. The focus is on problem-solving and understanding how packaging moves from design to the final product within the graphic communications industry.