This senior studio course is intended for students who are familiar with aspects of authoring for construction of interactivity in web-based environments. Students will work to develop principles and processes of website design for communicative and artistic purposes. Students will be encouraged to develop self-directed projects within this context.

These seminars are taught from the viewpoint of practicing artists, and focus on historical and/or contemporary issues relevant to particular disciplines or subjects. Seminars develop students' critical awareness of the content and context of cultural production in relation to a wide range of practices and theories. Students attend lectures and discussion groups; in addition they are required to undertake research, give presentations, complete visual projects, and write papers. Descriptions of specific seminar topics will be included with registration packages.

These seminars are taught from the viewpoint of practicing artists, and focus on historical and/or contemporary issues relevant to particular disciplines or subjects. Seminars develop students' critical awareness of the content and context of cultural production in relation to a wide range of practices and theories. Students attend lectures and discussion groups; in addition they are required to undertake research, give presentations, complete visual projects, and write papers. Descriptions of specific seminar topics will be included with registration packages.

This course provides an introduction to cultural theory as it has evolved to reach its present prominence in visual practice. Through a study of a number of the more influential schools of thought which have come to us from the social sciences-structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, etc.-and the social contexts which shape them, students will develop a better understanding of contemporary thinking in design, media and visual art.

This course offers students a pragmatic but also critical survey of post-graduate options for art students, including career possibilities, self-management and job-hunting strategies, networking skills, education and funding sources, the status of the art world as a social sphere, and the art work as commodity. Professional Practice also provides case studies of recent ECI graduates to give students a sense of the myriad of possibilities after they have finished their undergraduate studies: from working as an industrial designer to partnerships in visual art, from designing for print to the gaming world, from contemporary practice to its recent history. We will also examine legal and financial issues around copyright, grant-seeking, and intellectual property. The course also seeks to introduce you to a critical stance on artistic creation in a post-(No) Logo, post-studio practice, including a critical account of the history of professionalism, and such alternatives as DIY and amateurism. The course uses assigned readings, website presentations, research projects, and online peer interaction to communicate and examine a breadth of ideas.

This senior-level, social science course is intended to prepare students for professional and further educational opportunities after graduation. The student gains practical and critical, conceptual and theoretical skills. Topics include: project management, business formations, the fundamentals of proposals and contracts, intellectual property and the complexities of authorship, budgets and financial administration, the market planning process within the private and public sectors, and the social role of the artist or designer. Larger societal constructs are examined as well as assumptions about the nature of professional practice research and discourse. The goal is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to enter the cultural or design sectors with assurance, awareness and integrity. Through faculty and guest presentations, individual and group research projects, students learn to identify the ways in which the artists and designers respond to their cultural, social and economic context assurance, awareness and integrity. (NEW: THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO THIRD YEAR STUDENTS.)