This course is designed to cover today’s core industry skills in the fields of business communications and digital marketing. Using a website design template, students will build a functional business website, to which they will apply social media and content marketing strategies, as well as search engine optimization, analytics and digital advertising.

The focus of this introductory course will explore the relationship between human behaviour and organizational effectiveness. Contemporary management trends will be examined. Specific topics include perception, personality, motivation, group behavior, teamwork, organization culture, and change.

This course explores a selection of pivotal artistic movements post-1945, scrutinizing the dynamic interaction between artists and institutions. Central to this exploration is the examination of how rebellious, nonconformist, and outsider art forms interact with, and ultimately reshape, institutional structures. This inquiry probes the extent to which artistic dissidence and boundary-pushing is assimilated into the institutional framework. Although the primary focus is on Western art establishments, the curriculum encompasses a global perspective, featuring national artists as well as transnational art coalitions. This expansive view facilitates an introduction to a spectrum of art discourses and theoretical constructs. Students will engage with a diversity of artistic media, among them, installations, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, unconventional materials, and video. The objective is to enrich students' understanding and articulation of their own artistic practice through a multifaceted interpretative lens and a broad material palette.

This course integrates the knowledge gained in previous drawing courses with the students’ personal interests and individual approach. Students will be encouraged to relate drawing methodologies and techniques to their personal interests, practices and understanding of the medium as an expressive, conceptual and communication tool.

The course will cover major developments in art from the turn of the 20th century to the mid-20th century. It will focus on various art forms and movements from both non-Western and Western contexts. These may include painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, museum displays, exhibition practices, and the relationships between art, techniques of expression, politics, culture, revolutions, and everyday life. It will also explore key terminology associated with 20th-century art, such as modernism, modernity, and the avant-garde.

This course focuses on the theory and practice of drawing at an intermediate level addressing drawing observationally, conceptually, and expressively. Students will enhance their understanding of materials, techniques, processes, and concepts associated with drawing. Projects, critiques, and discussions will build knowledge of drawing vocabulary and prepare students for more advanced and self-determining approaches.

This course is an introduction to the technical and conceptual aspects of digital photography. Utilizing lectures, technical exercises, and creative projects, students will gain technical skills in the operation of a digital camera, RAW capture and conversion, file management, lighting, image manipulation with Adobe Photoshop, to process ideas and generate professional digital outputs.

This course will provide support in portfolio development, photographing art, writing artist statements, preparing a CV, and learning about the network of art organizations, granting institutions, and other opportunities that can support students beyond graduation.

The course examines art from the 15th century to the 20th century, focusing on various art forms with examples from both the non-Western and Western canons. It includes case studies from diverse regions, which explore a range of different forms of expression. This course will familiarize students with basic terms and concepts used in discussing art and cultural artifacts. While it is structured chronologically, it does not cover every period or geographical region. The purpose of the course is to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary for further education by providing them with a foundational understanding of art history and some of its most significant moments.

This course will expand knowledge and experience of drawing materials, techniques, and methods. Emphasis will be placed on observation and applying drawing skills in increasingly complex ways. Students will be introduced to a range of strategies including conceptual and expressive approaches.