School of Media : Culture : Design
Where Creativity Meets Purpose
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The School of Media : Culture : Design is a thriving, dynamic school offering many challenging degree paths designed to cultivate the next generation of creative professionals.
Animation + VFX
Bachelor of Fine Arts | BFA
Located in the heart of the animation industry near studios like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, the program teaches hand-drawn, stop motion, and computer-based animation techniques. In a studio environment, students learn to produce their own films rich in characters and worlds, many of which have been selected for international animation film festivals.
Applied CS 鈥� Media Arts
Bachelor of Science | B.S.
This is an art and technology hybrid degree focusing on emerging digital practices as a tool to innovate within the fields of digital design, entertainment, and media arts. This STEM degree transitions students into technological innovators and professionals who possess the ability to generate innovative design solutions using cutting-edge technologies.
Fashion Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts | BFA
Fashion Design students learn to produce original fashion designs and develop unique collections in womenswear, menswear, swimwear, knitwear, activewear, or tailoring. Classwork and senior collections are showcased in a professional fashion runway show, giving students an in-depth experience of the profession and preparing them for the industry.
Filmmaking, BFA
Bachelor of Fine Arts | BFA
The Filmmaking program prepares graduates for careers in film, television, and web programming. Students learn film production, screenwriting, editing, sound, cinematography, directing, producing, and film marketing and distribution within a few miles of major entertainment studios, providing a host of industry resources and networking connections.
Filmmaking, BA
Bachelor of Arts | BA
Woodbury鈥檚 Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Filmmaking is a professional liberal arts degree that places emphasis on the study of film through a focus on the entertainment industry. Our students engage with film from multiple angles: as an art form for communicating ideas, as a business for selling cultural products, and as a technology for creating memorable moving images.
Game Art & Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts | BFA
Students learn how to design and develop video games through 2D & 3D art, animation, programming, sound design, story development and game design. Game Art focuses on 2-D and 3-D character art, environmental design, and animation. Game Design focuses on ideation, gameplay development, prototyping, narrative design and world building.
Experience Design
Bachelor of Design | BDes
Ranked as one of the top programs nationally by GDUSA Magazine, the program teaches the art of visual communication. Studying with nationally recognized faculty, students create projects in branding, publication, entertainment, advertising, packaging, web, app, and motion design, and have won over 100 national and international awards in these areas.
Design Foundation
Core Studies in Drawing and Design
Students learn core color, composition, design and drawing skills to establish a foundation that prepares them for their major studies and various other creative professions. Foundation courses develop perceptual, conceptual and technical skills for visualizing ideas and multiple forms of self-expression.听The interdisciplinary听and multidisciplinary curriculum instills confidence so students can engage the vast and听ever-changing听world of听creative professions.
Interdisciplinary Environment
By bringing together diverse fields in the areas of media, culture and design, our programs provide innovative learning opportunities in an interdisciplinary environment. The school encompasses seven undergraduate programs in the fields of听animation,听fashion design,听filmmaking,听game art and design,听graphic design, media studies, and听psychology. Students are encouraged to explore the areas between and around these disciplines as they develop their personal vision and professional paths. Graphic Design students might select a consumer behavior course in psychology to better understand the factors that influence purchasing decisions. Fashion Design students may be interested in exploring costuming in the filmmaking department. Game Art & Design students might connect with Animation to create intriguing characters for their games. Animation students might look to the psychology department to understand the power of stories to influence thoughts and behaviors. Our听Media Studies department provides a cultural context for all of these connections, from visual communication to verbal and nonverbal social interactions to the examination of social and ethical entailments of rapidly evolving technological innovation. In the School of Media : Culture : Design, students are able to realize their educational objectives within a creative nexus that fully embraces, informs and enriches their academic journey.
Portfolio Mentor Initiative
Are you looking to develop your design and drawing skills and create work for your college entrance portfolio? Get friendly advice on improving your portfolio from an art professional at 麻豆社区app. Take a look at our portfolio requirements, review our mentor bios, and use the form at the bottom of the Portfolio Mentor Initiative page to sign up to be connected with one of our mentors.
The Academy Gold Rising Production Track
麻豆社区app current students and graduates from the last two years are now eligible to apply for the Academy Gold Rising Production Track!
This exciting program focuses on cinematography, costume design, film editing, production design, sound, and visual effects. Individuals in this track will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience shooting on a soundstage, as well as possible on set experience, health and safety regulations permitting.
Faculty Directory
Our faculty are accomplished caring academics and professionals dedicated to supporting the success of students throughout their academic journey. They bring their professional expertise to students and work closely with them to teach the skills and theory required to enter professional practice or pursue advanced study. Through this individual attention, we foster close mentoring relationships between faculty and students in a supportive and encouraging environment.
Student Spotlights
Find out more about our incredible students winning national awards, landing exciting internships and jobs, and working on inspiring projects.
Animation Student Films Selected for Screenings at International Film Festivals
Brandon Swofford | Happy the Angry Polar Bear
Gold Winner 鈥� Best Short Animation, Queens Palm International Film Festival
Wes Taimuty| Iron Sails
Award of Merit 鈥� Documentary Short, Impact Docs Documentary Film Festival
Chris Castillo | Vigilante
Palm Springs International Film听Festivaland Comic-Con 2018 San Diego
Tucker Joneson and Andrew Hill | Hero
Palm Springs International Film听Festivaland Comic-Con 2018 San Diego
Dani Bowman| The Audition
Palm Springs International Film听Festivaland Comic-Con 2018 San Diego
Madison Shafer| Sasquatch Out!
Palm Springs International Film听Festivaland Comic-Con 2018 San Diego
Sean Casey| Fly!
Palm Springs International Film听Festivaland Comic-Con 2018 San Diego
Fashion Design Student Wins California Fashion Foundation Scholarship
Fashion Design student Yvan Tran has been chosen as the winner of the 2018 California Fashion Foundation Scholarship Award. Administered by the California Fashion Association (CFA) and sponsored by the YMA National Fashion Scholarship Fund, the program is intended to provide information for expansion and growth to the apparel and textile industry of California, and honors future fashion design innovators with scholarship awards.
Filmmaking Student Wins Best Student Film at International Film Festival
Alumnus Miguel Chavez鈥檚 film won the award for Best Student Film at the Pasadena International Film Festival. Entitled The Voices They Hear, the crime film tells the story of a young man escaping from a murderer. Miguel has already landed his first job at Paramount. Congratulations Miguel!
Game Art Student 鈥淢odels a Job鈥�
Rich Deione is a Game Art & Design senior, specializing in 3D character design.听He created this Gunslinger model in his 鈥渟pare time鈥� last summer, and was recently hired by 3D art studio听Sinful Monarchy .听Congratulations Rich!
Graphic Design Student Portfolio to be Published in Communication Arts Magazine
Graphic Design student, Tuan Le has been selected to have his work published in the prestigious Communication Arts Magazine Student Showcase.听This is the second time in five years that a Woodbury student has been accepted for the Student Showcase.听It is a worldwide competition in which students are selected from over 200 finalist鈥檚 portfolios. Students are chosen by the editors for the quality of their conceptual thinking and the meticulous execution of their craft.听Since 1959, Communication Arts has published the best in visual communications from around the world.
Graphic Design Students Win National Design Awards听
In fall 2019, three Woodbury students won American Graphic Design Awards from GDUSA Magazine, bringing the total award count to 119 in the last decade. Nya Walker, Alexia Cortez, and Sam Peralta each won national honors for identity design, poster design, and app design developed in the classes of faculty Behnoush McKay, Rebekah Albrecht, and Rolando Borjorquez. More than 10,000 entries were submitted with a highly selective 10% chosen.
Graphic Design Students Named as 2019 “Students to Watch” by GDUSA Magazine.
Graphic Design USA,听the industry鈥檚 leading publication, has released its annual roster of next-gen talent 鈥� as the publication says, 鈥渢op students ready to burst on to the design scene.鈥�
Gracing the latest 鈥淪tudents To Watch鈥� feature are Woodbury seniors Ashley McFadden and Ibrahim Alfaraidy. 鈥溾�橲tudents to Watch鈥� has become a tradition that resonates and renews,鈥� said Gordon Kaye,听GDUSA听Editor. 鈥淩ising talent gets recognized and the professional creative community gets refreshed.鈥� 听The February, 2019 edition of听GDUSA听Magazine听 showcases the institutions that nurture these students along with the 78 students themselves.
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Graphic Design Students Express Poetry Through Typography
Call and Response听is a collaboration between BFA Graphic Design students at 麻豆社区app and MFA Creative Writing students at Mount Saint Mary鈥檚 University. Poets in Professor Johnny Payne鈥檚 long-form poetry/virtual reality course produced experimental poetry in the Fall of 2017. In the Spring of 2018, Professor Cate Roman鈥檚 Typography 3 course seized on excerpts from those poems to create visual experiences that illuminate each poem. With support from both MSMU and Woodbury鈥檚 Agency for Civic Engagement (ACE), Cate is creating a limited edition printed book of all the poems and images. The project will continue on with a reading/exhibition at MSMU and there are two more planned readings/exhibitions at Sacred Heart Church, Altadena and Harvard Westlake Middle School, Los Angeles.
Giving Opportunities
The School of Media : Culture : Design serves a diverse and dynamic group of students who are truly helping to reshape the creative professions. We need your support. With your help, our students will have an outsized impact on the state of these professions in Southern California, across the nation, and around the globe. Gifts and sponsorships can support our learning initiatives all of which help to provide remarkable educational opportunities and advance the mission of the School of Media : Culture : Design.
National Association of Schools of Arts & Design (NASAD)
WSCUC: Senior College and University Commission (formerly WASC)
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