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Digital Image Compositing — DES2106.01

Instructor: Gus Ramirez
Days & Time: MO 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Beyond its use in commercial and fine art photography, image compositing is a useful tool for artists and designers more broadly. This course will cover processing, combining, and editing images in Adobe Photoshop to an intermediate level. Students will learn about the Photoshop interface, and how to work with images using filters, masks, levels, color and saturation controls, and a variety of selection and editing tools to create digital collages and composites. Student work will culminate in a large-format printed project.

Composing for Drum Set — MCO2131.02

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 1

This 7 week course will shift how drummers think and play the drum set. Students will be encouraged to move beyond just playing beats and grooves to thinking more compositionally. If you are able to play the drums, we will not completely ignore rhythms, however,learning how the drum set can be a melodic and harmonic instrument is one of the directions students will explore. Students will explore a variety of approaches using but not limited to, found objects, membranophones, ideophones, electronics, and the human voice.

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01, section 1

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

For students with some prior singing experience. This class is designed to refine awareness and coordination of the mind and body and develop a reliable vocal technique applicable to all styles of singing and speaking performance.  

Blockchain/Web3 as an evolution of the consumer web — CS2138.01

Instructor: Michael Corey
Days & Time: TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

The large-scale consumer web has been defined by epochs. The first epoch was defined by the user as consumer: large companies created content which was consumed by the masses. The second web epoch (web 2.0) has been defined by consumer creators, large companies own and deliver content created by users to other users (Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, 鈥). The third web epoch is鈥攊f you believe the hype鈥攖o be defined by self-ownership of content.

World Building: Designing Characters and World They Live In — DES2109.01

Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time: MO 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Every fictional universe has its own history, culture, geography, and ecology that act as a backdrop to the narratives that inhabit it.  This course will investigate the relationship between such a fantastical place and its characters 鈥 with a particular emphasis on the philosophy and symbology of the characters and their clothes.