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Courses

Summer at Columbia courses are taught by Columbia’s faculty of filmmakers, artists, designers, and other creative practitioners. They bring their experience as working professionals into the classroom every day.

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• Film and Television Production

  This hands-on course explores film and television production techniques through collaborative individual and group projects. Students practice conceptualization, visualization, camera and lighting techniques, sound recording, and editing techniques through video projects, exercises, presentations, and critique sessions.

  COURSE NUMBER: MEDI 102
  FACULTY: Wenhwa Ts’ao
  FORMAT: In-person
  MATERIALS REQUIREMENT: None

• Explorations in Creative Writing

  This hands-on, exploratory course in creative writing is open to all students across the College and is required for creative writing majors. By reading and writing a wide range of poems, stories, nonfiction, and hybrid texts-- with possible forays into other art forms--students will become familiar with a wide range of approaches to creative writing and a rich array of human responses to the culture(s) of their time as expressed in literature and other arts.

  COURSE NUMBER: CRWR 101
  FACULTY: TBD
  FORMAT: In-person
  MATERIALS REQUIREMENT: None

• Introduction to Illustration
  This course is designed to introduce students to the field of illustration and basic illustration processes. Students will experiment within a studio environment with a variety of traditional and digital materials, techniques, styles, and their hybrids. Classes are supplemented with a series of presentations on contemporary illustrators, market trends, demonstrations, and documentation. 
  
  COURSE NUMBER: ILLU 101
  FACULTY: TBD
  FORMAT: In-person
  MATERIALS REQUIREMENT: None