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The course focuses on dressmaking and fashion production related to variance, development, grading, and industrial fabrication, i.e., clothing construction – pattern drafting, development, alteration, and design for the industry. Practical studio works are about such needs as official, casual, factory, and ceremonial outfits. The course also incorporates computer application to pattern drafting and modelling to develop three-dimensional fashion ideas using software packages to develop sketches from freehand sketches.

An introductory course to foundry practice, the furnace and melting techniques, equipment and tools for ferrous and non-ferrous metal casting and principles of modelled cast products. Studio practice focuses on industrial metal casting processes, emphasizing shell mould and investment mould casting, sand casting, cores, core prints, core boxes, moulds; i.e., sand moulding; green/damp moulds, skin dry moulds, and skin dry moulds.

This course introduces basic vocabularies of visual arts, emphasizing elements and principles of design, the nature of colour and colour theories, and the means to visual expression. The aim is to open the dynamics of the creative process and thinking by exploring and developing concepts that rely on various artistic mediums in two- and three-dimensional spheres for specialists and non-specialists alike.

The studio and professional practice ethics are an introduction to the nature and content of art and design disciplines. The course provides a hands-on studio experience in visual arts options in two and three-dimensional design. Learning activities incorporate critical and evaluative successions where the students demonstrate how the elements and principles of design function in their respective assignments

This course focuses on interpreting complexities arising from the social and cultural space and their clutters and clusters of human, animal, objects, and potential interpretive layering that constitute subject for scenic engagement on the ground or media such as digital multimedia space. The course brings the learner analytical and creative in encountering objects, scenes, and innovative appropriations. The course hones content through selected studio masters and the themes in performance and action they have engaged.

The course focuses on glaze technologies. These include understanding the physical and chemical properties of materials such as Feldspar, Quartz, Kaolin, Whiting, Salt and Lead glazes. The oxides and their functions in glazes. Other materials from antimony oxide to zirconium oxide in glaze development. Glaze by recipe and formula. Low and high-temperature glazes. Local materials for glaze production. Glaze defects and remedies. Conditions before and during glaze application and glazing techniques. Glass blowing continues from simple forms to larger forms. Production of figurines, vases, trophies, bowls and the likes. Finishing of pieces and presentation. Ring.

Execution of ceramic works from sketches using the hand-built ceramics techniques such as pinch, coil, slab, and press mould and acquiring the basic skills in modelling forms and decorations on wares using lines, texture and colour. Advance assignments explore working on composite forms, mosaics, collage, techniques of brick making, tiles, sanitary and architectural wares, lamp base and shades.

The fatigue that modernist artists expressed about the conventions in painting and sculpture and incorporating ready-mades and genre objects within the art field forms the background to this course. From its postmodern perspective, the course evaluates the new media from the multimedia context. It evaluates the interactive contexts in which the new media are appropriated in the visual arts. It thermalizes performance-driven genres such as the performance art in multimedia and studio performances - the gallery/studio informal/stage - conceptual trends and the spectacle they endear. Studio assignments feature texts for performance on personal narratives, memories, collective histories, and enactments in video documentations of not more than three minutes. 400 LEVEL NEW MEDIA ART

The study of manifestations of the built form as shells for human activities in Africa. The course figures out how the environment and ecology shaped their forms, including the taxonomy they exhibit. For example, the paranoiac architectural traditions, the Great Walls of Zimbabwe, the royal architectures of the Ashanti, Benin, the Yoruba Kingdoms, and their impluvium and compluvium configurations, the advent of hybrid styles like Afro-Brazilian architecture, and other style fusions. The discussed objects include domestic and non-domestic architecture and other elements of the material culture that support the built form. Particular attention will be paid to how these objects functioned within such settings.

The course is a general survey of the history and practice of metals in relation to fashion and the locus of metals and pieces of jewellery. The examples of such items in the fashion ensemble of the pharaohs and other ancient civilizations of the world form the necessary grounds of a survey into subsequent regimes of jewellery design and use up to contemporary times. Strategic to the course is a study of masters and trends in this sphere.