This course will focus on implementing areas of special interest including new, advanced, and emerging visual communication course content. Potential topics include any area in industry practices, business and creativity, visual communications, studio and location lighting, production, editorial photography, and documentary storytelling. This course can be taken multiple times, but individual topics must differ.

The course requires students to imagine, research and create a project or series of projects that could only take place in New York City. The semester-long creative project in photography, design, video, or a variety of mediums will be guided by weekly lectures exposing students to NYC-based creative projects. The class will combine classroom learning and on-going project discussion along with hands-on inspiration from field trips to visits to creatives, alums, and cultural institutions. Classes will often take place in museums, galleries, artist studios or sites of cultural significance. Students will live in NYC during the term. Department permission to enroll is required.