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Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Four California campuses in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and San Francisco. FIDM is a specialized, private college dedicated to educating students for the Fashion, Graphics, Interior Design, and Entertainment Industries. It’s a place where creativity and careers merge. We’re hands-on and industry focused. We’re small enough to know our students’ names, but big enough to have the industry contacts and resources to help them meet their goals. We don’t just prepare our students for a job; we prepare them for a career.
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is dedicated to educating architects who will imagine and shape the future. It is an independent, accredited degree-granting institution offering undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture. Located in a quarter-mile-long former freight depot in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles, the school is distinguished by its vibrant studio culture and emphasis on process. SCI-Arc’s approximately 500 students and 80 faculty members, most of whom are practicing architects, work together to re-examine assumptions, create, explore and test the limits of architecture. SCI-Arc faculty and leadership have garnered more than 500 national and international design awards and recognitions, including Progressive Architecture awards, American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards, and the prestigious Jencks and Pritzker architecture prizes. SCI-Arc is ranked 1st in computer applications and 2nd in design in the 2013 America’s Best Architecture Schools survey from DesignIntelligence, and #1 graduate and undergraduate architecture school in Western U.S.
The FIDM Museum and Library, Inc. provides students, researchers, designers, and the public with resources to examine the roles of historic fashion, accessories, textiles, jewelry, fragrance, and related ephemera in their relationship to society, history, art, and technology. The collections are sustained by standard museum practices for continual acquisition, preservation, and display. Educational, outreach, and volunteer programs support the scholarly interpretation of the collections.
SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, California, is an independent, non-profit school offering undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate degrees in architecture. Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc is often regarded as - both institutionally and artistically - more avant-garde than traditional architecture schools based in the United States. The school consists of approximately 500 students and 80 faculty members, some of whom are practicing architects. It is based in the quarter-mile long (0.25mi) former Santa Fe Freight Depot in the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles, and offers a variety of community events such as outreach programs, free exhibitions, and public lectures.DegreesSCI-Arc offers undergraduate, B.Arch, and graduate degree programs, M.Arch 1 and M.Arch 2 accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). SCI-Arc is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).The newly launched SCI-Arc EDGE, Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture will offer four postgraduate degree programs in fields including architectural technologies, entertainment and fiction, design of cities, and theory and pedagogy, along with a fellowship in synthetic landscapes.In addition to its undergraduate and graduate programs, SCI-Arc offers two summer programs: a four-week program for high school students, Design Immersion Days; and a four-week intensive, introductory program that explores design through experimental architecture, Making+Meaning.HistorySCI-Arc was founded in 1972 in Santa Monica by a group of faculty and students from Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, who wanted to approach the subject from a more experimental perspective than traditional schools offered. Originally called the New School, SCI-Arc was based on the concept of a "college without walls" and it remains one of the few independent architecture schools in the world. Ray Kappe, who had founded the Pomona department, became the new school's first director, served in that position until 1987, and was awarded the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medal for excellence in architecture education in 1990.
The USC Graduate School enhances graduate students' educational experiences by providing valuable resources and environments that promote students' research, teaching and career aspirations, access to fellowships, diversity and professionalization programs, and guidance and support for navigating educational policies and procedures.
Recently re-located to 955 E. Third Street, across from the North End entrance to the SCI-Arc building, the Art Supply Store was created by students to support the curriculum by providing the tools and materials necessary to allow students to experiment with model making and drawing. It also provides books and readers for seminars.
Established in 2004, CREATE is an interdisciplinary national research center based at the University of Southern California in the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Viterbi School of Engineering and funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Center is focused on risk and economic analysis of the U.S. and comprises a team of experts from across the country, including partnerships with numerous universities and research institutions. Many threats and vulnerabilities pose daily risks to our national security. CREATE develops predictive models that gauge how and where terrorist events might occur, estimate the economic consequences of such attacks and identify where the country's vulnerabilities reside. The Center serves national interests by providing tools and guidance to the Department of Homeland Security, as well as local, regional and state decision-makers, for the prioritization of countermeasures to terrorism, identifying areas where investments are likely to be most effective, computing relative risks among potential terrorist events, and estimating the societal consequences of terrorism.
Golden Gate University has been in Southern California since the 1970s, established at the request of major accounting and law firms in the area to provide our outstanding taxation program. GGU's Los Angeles site is located in the Ernst & Young building in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. We are within walking distance of several of LA's premier restaurants and shopping. We are also only a few blocks from the LA Convention Center and the Staples Center. Our facility has two conference-style classrooms, including a fully-equipped computer laboratory.
The Music Academy offers a thirty week program corresponding with the academic year. Academy courses and activities occur on Tuesday afternoons and Saturdays. Students participate in all aspects of the curriculum, which includes private instruction, chamber music, music theory and ear training, music history, master classes, community outreach, presentational skills, and other rotating seminars.
The Conservatory provides full financial scholarships, including tuition, room and board for all students. Programs include the Bachelor of Music degree, Performance Diploma, Professional Studies Certificate, Artist Diploma, and the Master of Music degree. Admission to the Conservatory is highly selective and requires a formal application and audition. The school presents its Conservatory students in more than 150 recitals and performances each year, many of which are free and open to the public.
The Colburn School serves the Los Angeles community with the finest performing arts instruction through the Colburn School of Performing Arts. As an open-enrollment school, the School of Performing Arts does not require academic degrees to enroll in its courses, which cover a broad range of styles, age levels and degrees of difficulty. Music classes at the School of Performing Arts include applied musical instruction, music theory, chamber ensemble and large ensemble opportunities. The Colburn School of Performing Arts has been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) since 1980. The School of Performing Arts is also a member of the National Guild For Community Arts Education.
The Colburn School is a performing arts school located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, neighboring Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Music Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Broad Museum. The acclaimed faculty provides students with the highest quality performing arts education, which includes a multitude of performance opportunities in a state-of-the-art facility.
Lowest grade taught: 9th Grade - Highest grade taught: 12th Grade
Lowest grade taught: 9th Grade - Highest grade taught: 12th Grade
Lowest grade taught: 9th Grade - Highest grade taught: 12th Grade
Lowest grade taught: 6th Grade - Highest grade taught: 12th Grade
Lowest grade taught: 7th Grade - Highest grade taught: 12th Grade
Founded in 2014 by Victoria Alessandra Hotfire under the management of The Hotfire Empire as the Institute of Performing Arts. The Hotfire School is one of the world's eminent performing-arts institutions, with college level programs in music (including jazz, opera and historical performance), dance, and drama. There is also a Pre-College Division, for children and teens, and an Evening Division, for adults interested in continuing education.
Lowest grade taught: 9th Grade - Highest grade taught: 12th Grade
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Former name: Central Los Angeles High School #9 For the Visual and Performing Arts