Communications

Animation

Covers 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics, character design, visual storytelling, and digital compositing using tools like Adobe After Effects, Maya, and Blender. Students build portfolios through short film and commercial projects. Graduates work as animators, motion designers, and visual effects artists at studios, agencies, and game companies.

Audio Engineering

Prepares students to record, mix, master, and produce audio for music, film, television, podcasts, and live events. Students train in digital audio workstations, acoustic design, signal processing, and sound design. Graduates work as recording engineers, music producers, broadcast audio technicians, and post-production sound designers.

Creative Writing

Develops students' skills in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, creative nonfiction, and narrative craft through intensive workshop-based instruction. Students study literary form, voice, structure, and the business of publishing. Graduates pursue careers as authors, screenwriters, copywriters, content strategists, and writing instructors.

Film & Video Production

Film making and video production. Prepares students to communicate ideas, moods, and dramatic information through film and video, covering film theory, film technology and equipment operation, directing, editing, audio, cinematographic art, computer image making and multimedia production, and the planning and management of a production.

Fine & Studio Arts

Studio practice in the visual arts -- painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and illustration -- built around a portfolio. NCES CIP 50.0702 "Fine/Studio Arts, General".

Graphic Design

Visual design and digital media. Prepares students to apply artistic and computer techniques to the interpretation of technical and commercial concepts. Coursework covers computer-assisted art and design, concept sketching and technical drawing, color theory, imaging and studio technique, printmaking, multimedia applications, and commercial art business operations.