These studios, two of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.

Note: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

Turn your ideas into objects. In this hands-on studio you'll get your hands on the machines in CTC's shop and learn to make with them: 3D printers, pen plotters, vinyl cutters and more. Each week brings a new machine and a new way of working. You'll draw a file and watch a plotter turn it into ink on paper, model a form and print it, and cut graphics you can apply to any surface. Along the way you'll make custom tools, parts and pieces that feed straight back into your drawing, sculpture, textiles, design or whatever you love to make. The course is built for first-year students and beginners, so you can arrive curious and leave with a working toolkit, a pile of experiments, and a sense of what computation can do for an artist or designer.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $300.00

Elective

Color key artists must have the ability to take an audience on a thrilling roller coaster ride that they came for. This course is for artists interested in the intersection between story and color for cinema. The most critical skill a color key artist needs is taking a story and quickly roughing out emotional story beats. Students will explore the fundamentals of color and light and how they are used in filmmaking to tell a compelling narrative. Assignments will address visual storytelling principles to craft colorscripts, color keys, and emotional story beat paintings, all of which are needed in a 2D or 3D animation production. The class will go through the processes of using color theory and lighting techniques to create powerful and emotional statements for film. Though this course is focused on animation, these lessons can apply for any story-driven project including live-action, video games, children's books, graphic novels, etc.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $0.00 - $50.00

Elective

Topics in Fashion Theory introduces students to the ideas and debate that have enriched our understanding of fashion. Through the manipulation of the visual and tactile symbols of clothing (cut, cloth, texture, ornament, and color) fashion expresses individual, community and societal attributes and attitudes. Yet, as Fred Davis notes, social identities are rarely the stable amalgams we take them to be.They can shift over the course of a lifetime and are prodded by social and technological change. Drawing on scholarship in a range of disciplines, including sociology, cultural studies, gender studies and queer theory, the class explores how clothing communicates aspects of identity linked to gender, sexuality, class, race, religion, and nation. We will examine the extent to which fashion is currently formulating effective social commentary, and consider questions, for example, that surround sustainable fashion and cultural appropriation. The class integrates reading and reading responses with discussion and visual analysis of clothing and fashion across the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Students will develop a final essay that assesses a debate of interest encountered in class discussion and readings.

Elective