The objective of the course is to give students an understanding of the chronological order of events that constitute the history of art. They will use the methodological tools of the discipline, to learn how to situate, compare and understand the relationships between them through a study of their stylistic characteristics and their socio­historical context.

In this course, the students will learn advanced techniques in Photoshop, especially what is needed to create and innovate in the fields of advertising and graphics. With these techniques, the students will be able to retouch and recreate new approaches in the wide field of picture treatment.

This course will teach the basics of the After Effects CS application package. The students will learn about the world of 2D motion graphics, compositing and visual effects. Prerequisites are: completion of the Adobe Photoshop Basic Skills 1 and 2 courses, a general graphics background, and experience with Adobe Illustrator, and/or Premiere would be helpful.

Students will enhance and elaborate their knowledge of applied structure, through this course covering introductory concepts of forms and abstract compositions as applied to organization, proportions, equilibrium, rhythm, and density.

Study of colors, their chromatic solution, the characteristics of pigments, their section, opacity and transparency.

The course details the importance of creating a strategy and the steps required to construct an effective communication to reach a marketing plan and to transpose them within the realm of creative advertising.

This course teaches students how to use Adobe Photoshop to perform many different image processing techniques. The students will learn how to use several tools for selecting parts of images, and applying several filters and effects in order to create professional looking illustrations compatible with market requirements.

The course offers a deeper understanding of advertising through an academic definition focusing on theory and the strategies it uses, its psychological impact which enables it to persuade a specific target audience, and then to be able to specify the best media to use to achieve optimal communication results.

This course shows students how to produce professional-looking graphics for web or print with Adobe Illustrator software. Through practical exercises, they will become fluent in the premier program for line art, logos, vector graphics and quick page layout, as well as methods and efficient techniques to keep work clean and professional all while saving time and remaining within budget constraints.

A workshop teaching drawing. Teaching is based on analytical drawing and emphasizes the development of visual memory and the exploration of the expressive qualities of different tools and supports. Students will experience freehand perspective drawing, human figures, and drawing from nature.

In this course students will become aware of typography as a part of daily life, and they will learn about the different contexts and manipulation of the letters which make texts more legible whatever their format is and their ultimate purpose (reading, posters, screens, etc.).

The course explores letters in their different contexts, and introduces the idea of a typographic grid and the hierarchy of use of typography in different ways. Equilibrium and balance are explored on empty pages, and harmonious solutions are offered to fill them.

Students will develop a solid understanding of the many processes and techniques that go into producing works made either entirely of partially using 3D CGI software applications. They will be able to recognize which tools would ideally be used in specific situations, as well as what common pitfalls should be avoided and how to get out of them.

This course provides students with the opportunity to bring together design and illustration in the context of graphic design projects. Assignments will focus on image­making for communication and strong concepts. The development of a personal visual approach or style and professional process will be the main focus in this course. Students have an opportunity to expand upon the variety of techniques and types of computer graphics and illustration while producing hand­ drawn, painted, or digitally manipulated illustrations. Individual artistic expression will be encouraged.

The power of words is emphasized through this course, be it slang, proverb­based, or more formal in expression, each within its appropriate context. Creative adaptation across languages is also explored.

This course is a workshop where students learn to originate ideas and it demonstrates how to represent them in a short time. Students will learn to create new ideas according to a specific brief, target audience, etc., and to manage to deliver all this in a limited period of time.

The final project is a semester­long endeavor in which students develop a graphic design work that brings to life their exploration of a topic of interest. The topic is identified by each student through a project proposal submitted for review and approval by a pool of active instructors in the program. The topic can be triggered by a particular experience, text, artifact, etc. and could bridge between tangential cultural practices (cinema, literature, music, theater, etc.) and/or related fields of study (media and communication studies, art history and theory, cultural studies, visual culture, etc.). The investigation should have design/visual implications that enable it to critically inform and contribute to the student’s field of study in graphic design and to expand its margins within the purview of visual representation generally.

This course emphasizes the transposition of a verbal content into graphic language. It can either be targeted via different steps of the graphic language or through a more holistic approach. Geometric forms get an esthetic makeover in posters, and mixed media are used efficiently as part of a bigger aim. Three projects will be tackled but all of them will take visual composition as their core value.

Students will explore projects of greater complexity; Learning how to analyze substantial data, appreciate the design functions of relating ideas, and develop logical structural systems to organize information for legible and clear communication. Students will be able to transform manuscripts into publications, i.e. book design, newspaper, magazine, and instruction manual and for mobile application. They will have to follow a design process to assess typographical text application, expression, hierarchy, sequential design, layout and page systems, including production.

In this course the students will learn the history of graphic design, from the first grotto graphic representations, the origin of symbols, the development of various alphabets, printing, logos, etc. and through to the evolution of new media in the related artistic movements.

This course emphasizes the application of graphic design elements to various forms of packaging. Packages are analyzed and positioned from a marketing point of view. Brand marks, visual graphics and color schemes are developed for individual products and extended product lines. This class is geared to those interested in product packaging as independent yet related to business.

The course consists of teaching the student designers the way create the best possible print production for their output. It introduces almost all the necessary tools and techniques of the print production process and the know-how to create a correct pre­press PDF file ready­to­print for optimal practical results.

Students investigate the basic aspects of Arabic letterforms and typography through a variety of projects. Students are exposed to the historical background, technical and esthetic issues, and communicative abilities of typography as individual forms and as a text.

The course aims at familiarizing students with the Arabic letters (families, construction and composition) so as to be able to write with the brush through applied exercises of calligraphy, in addition to writing texts and titles, while mastering typography through conventional methods before digitizing them.

In this course, the students will learn to manipulate images on software to be applied in architecture and to implement them in the real world of urban and/or rural spaces.

Comics are an art unto themselves which blend many talents. In this course students will receive their initiation to the techniques of comics which will allow them to apply these skills to other fields such as advertising, communication, cinema, and animation.

This course gives the students the principles of effective commercial communication based on the motivation behind consumerism. The students will also learn how to apply this knowledge and how to adapt it in advertising.

Introduction and history of different techniques of engraving. Applying these techniques: woodcut, lithography, linoleum, etching, screen printing and others.

Intensive examination of the works of filmmakers who have produced distinctive universes: Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Paradjanov, Alfred Hitchcock, and Robert Bresson etc.

This course explores developments in the visual arts in Europe and America from 1889 till today. The major Modernist and Contemporary artists and movements that sought to revolutionize vision, culture, and experience, from Impressionism to Digital works, will be considered.

In this course the students will learn how to start researching and illustrating in different style elements related to nature, interior furniture and objects, in order to develop their own illustration style.

Introduction to different fundamental techniques used in the creation of a character. Emphasis on relaxation, concentration, and development of a role through sensorial and emotional memories. Students will improvise and do monologues as exercises in this introductory course.

The course covers the history of world cinema from 1985 to 1950 addressing, among others, the American cinema of Griffith, the Hollywood system and the star system, Russian cinema, German Expressionism, Surrealism and French Impressionism as well as Italian Neo‐realism...

The purpose of this course is to teach students the basics of painting on paper and canvas, and how to choose the topic in correlation with the composition. Collage, gouache, aquarelle, pastel and acrylic and oil are the techniques used in this course.

A workshop teaching drawing. Teaching is based on analytical drawing and emphasizes the development of visual memory and the exploration of the expressive qualities of different tools and supports. Students will experience freehand perspective drawing, human figures, and drawing from nature.

Historical introduction to the different techniques of stained glass. Practical applications: composition, layout, grading, cutting, leading, welding, and grouting.

Students will be able to understand the different types of media, analog and digital formats, (text, images, sound, video, etc.). They will be able to use technological tools, QR code, storage hardware and software, and different types of connectivity and I/O devices.

In a world relying more and more on the power of the net, web design is a must outlet for graphic design. The course will enable students to make a window showcase site and, ideally, to create a fully-functional interactive one.

This workshop is the first professional intersection between all technical information and channels for students to express themselves creativity. It initiates logo design, posters, packaging and layout, making students aware of the cohabitation between visuals and texts on different structures.

Based on the knowledge acquired during the first workshop in graphics, students are exposed to more complex ideas, so they can learn to better handle different graphic contexts. Having a skilled handling of the technical tools will allow the students to be able to better express their ideas creatively and provide for a more efficient use of visuals for their concepts.