This six-credit studio course is aimed at ensuring basic competence with a range of traditional and new media tools for artistic creation. The course begins with workshops to generate experiences of creativity, followed by trainings in visual thinking and spatial logic, drawing, photography, video, sound production and aural awareness, which amount to the arts of seeing and hearing in the age of technological convergence. Students are expected to operate, with proficiency, tools of various media, and then gradually generate their own artistic vocabulary. In the process, students are also encouraged to create works with humanitarian sensibilities and concerns, especially via keen observation of the world around them.

This course is comprised of a series of technique-focused studios, as well as semi-regular town hall meetings. The ultimate purpose of regular exercises within each "toolbox studio" module is to allow the students to befriend a broad range of tools to use and think with them playfully with competence. In addition to regular exercises within each studio module, the course requires all students to integrate what they learn with a first year thesis that demonstrates cross-media thinking and multiple media skills, which will take place in the final weeks of the Semester B.

Minimum passing requirement: Students must have achieved a passing grade in at least 5 out of the following 6 Studio Modules - 1. Creativity in Action 2. Drawing and Visual Thinking 3. Hearing and Sound 4. Object and Installation 5. Video and Digital Imaging 6. Interactive Media Workshop