Programs
We offer comprehensive degree plans designed for creative and career-oriented students. Our classes are innovative and offered year-round, enabling students to graduate in as little as twenty-one months. Our curriculum encompasses the industry trends in rapidly expanding industries, affording students hands-on practice in a dynamic and visionary environment.
We offer the following subject-specific degree programs:
- Art of Cooking
- Baking & Pastry
- Baking & Pastry
- Baking & Pastry (AS)
- Culinary Arts
- Culinary Arts (AS)
- Culinary Management
- Culinary Management (BS)
- Digital Filmmaking & Video Production
- Digital Filmmaking & Video Production (BS)
- Fashion Retailing
- Fashion Retailing
- Fashion Retailing (D)
- Game Art & Design
- Game Art & Design (BS)
- Graphic Design
- Graphic Design
- Graphic Design (AS)
- Interior Design
- Interior Design (BS)
- Media Arts & Animation
- Media Arts & Animation (BS)
- Web Design & Interactive Communications
- Web Design & Interactive Communications
- Web Design & Interactive Communications (D)
- Web Design & Interactive Media
- Web Design & Interactive Media
- Web Design & Interactive Media (AS)
Art of Cooking
Baking & Pastry
Baking & Pastry
Baking & Pastry (AS)
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Culinary Arts
Culinary Arts (AS)
The curriculum emphasizes progressive techniques and trends. Students receive practical training in modern kitchens. The Culinary Arts associate's degree program consists of providing courses covering basic skills and advanced techniques include international cuisine, a la carte, sauces, American regional cuisine, charcuterie, classical cuisine, baking, pastry, and culinary skills. Instruction in kitchen management, purchasing and cost control, menu design, and dining room operation provides students with a solid business background. Students gain hands-on experience operating the school restaurant, working in the kitchen, and the front of the house. Students can gain experience in settings such as entertainment establishments, resorts, hotels, clubs, restaurants, hospitals, and healthcare.
Culinary Management
Culinary Management (BS)
The bachelor's degree program in Culinary Management prepares graduates for entry-level food service-related management and supervisory trainee programs. The program provides an opportunity for students to become competent in the identified priorities for the food service industry: communication, training, leadership, motivation, management, human resources, technology, accounting marketing, and customer relations. From overseeing food quality, to dealing with customers, to making staffing decisions, a food service manager handles hundreds of varied yet critically important tasks every day. The manager's capabilities and day-to-day performance, and abilities to make decisions quickly, often determine the ultimate success or failure of a food service operation.
Managers are involved in teaching, training, and motivating staff and handling all forms of human resource issues. They possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, function as team leaders, and supervise a culturally diverse staff. Computer proficiency in food service operations is an integral part of a manager's daily function. Above all, knowledge of the customer and customer relations skills empower the food service managers to render better service, and to cater to the demands of knowledgeable consumers and employees. Our curriculum is driven by the industry and changes with its trends. It begins with courses that give students a foundation of basic concepts such as the History & Evolution of Food, Hospitality Technology, Managerial Accounting, Marketing Applications, and the Capstone Business Plan. Students will develop critical thinking and interpersonal skills while learning the business realities of the food service industry, like Business Communications, Human Resource Management, and Business Law.
Digital Filmmaking & Video Production
Digital Filmmaking & Video Production (BS)
If a career in television, cinema, audio and digital recording for Internet and software purposes sounds exciting to you, consider a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Filmmaking and Video Production from the Art Institute of California-Sacramento.
Professional and talented instructors guide students through the courses in this four year program to help them become knowledgeable and effective employees in this diverse industry.
Technology advances daily in this rapidly growing high tech world of film and video. To give students the fundamentals of film, professors guide students through detailed courses on production, preproduction, and postproduction. The individuals learn the roots of film and video by studying storyboarding, scripting, editing, and composition.
With your bachelor degree in Digital Filmmaking and Video Production from the Art Institute of California-Sacramento, your career options will be full of choices. You will be able to select from such careers as a production assistant, broadcaster, cinematographer, video editor, lighting and audio technician, and the list continues on. Begin your new career today by enrolling at the Art Institute of California-Sacramento.
Fashion Retailing
Fashion Retailing
Fashion Retailing (D)
Game Art & Design
Game Art & Design (BS)
The bachelor's degree program in Game Art & Design offers a broad range of work-ready design and technology competencies focused on career paths in the specialty of game art and design.
Students will begin with a substantial foundation in drawing, color, design, and computer applications. From this foundation, they develop advanced skills in various aspects of computer graphics and animation. Students learn to use tools of the computer animation profession, ranging from modeling to animation to game engines. In addition to software applications, students will use scanners, printers, and classroom presentation equipment. These tools enhance the student's flexibility and creativity, and enable them to produce an individualized portfolio that demonstrates their practical and technical abilities to potential employers.
Graphic Design
Graphic Design
Graphic Design (AS)
AS
Some of today's most dynamic industries are based on graphic design. The fields of publishing, television, and graphic design offer great opportunities for trained visual communicators, especially designers and artists.
Design studios require the talents of many professionals. Art directors work with writers to develop original concepts, supervising a creative process that relies on the expertise of layout artists, productions artists, illustrators, photographers, and printers. In the field of publishing, art directors and designers work with editors and journalists to design and produce magazines, books, and newspapers.
Graphic designers create a vast range of visual communications including corporate identity programs, consumer package designs, annual reports, exhibit materials, direct mail, brochures, and multimedia presentations. The television industry now employs hundreds of trained visual artists who use conventional and computer technology to create television commercials, sophisticated titling, and graphics.
The Art Institute of California - Sacramento is the first step toward a career in commercial graphics. Initially, students develop the basic skills in design, and are trained in creative problem solving and the ability to offer client solutions. Students learn the skills and techniques of computer graphics, electronic imaging, and production while focusing on color and composition, visual expression, print production, and basic art direction skills. Tools include scanners, digital cameras, and computer-based hardware and software.
BS
Corporate identity programs, collateral materials, product packaging, video graphics, signs, and exhibits - all of these are created by graphic designers to communicate effectively with consumers. Graphic designers are visual communicators who combine color, composition, typography, and illustration in creative, innovative ways to inform, motivate, sell, educate, or entertain.
All graphic design students begin with foundation classes in color, design, drawing, and computer skills. The associate's degree program focuses on color and composition, visual expression, print production, and basic art direction skills. The bachelor's degree program builds on these skills with additional training in conceptual thinking, creativity, problem solving, market research, digital production, project management, art direction, business practices, and supervisory skills. Students learn both MAC and PC computer platforms, with industry related software, for print and digital design and production.
Most of the graphic design faculty has experience in the industry. Guest designers, artists, and industry leaders host classroom workshops and provide lectures and critiques to demonstrate an inside view of industry trends and philosophies.
Interior Design
Interior Design (BS)
As a professional interior designer, you have the option to work one-on-one with private individuals, guiding them through the aspects of renovating their home to an entirely new level of appeal. Also, as an interior designer, you will have the option to work side-by-side with architects, set designers, advertising companies, furniture stores and textile industries. Your choices will be plentiful with a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design from the Art Institute of California-Sacramento.
An interior designerís job is to enhance the interior of an environment by adding elements of safety, design, and appeal. Visual designs as well as structural designs are combined elements which both play a part of the work of an interior designer. At the Art Institute of California-Sacramento, by gaining your Interior Design, Bachelor of Science degree, you will be fully equipped to enter into this complex world of structure, textiles, and technology.
By studying skills in lighting, design graphics, drafting, fabric grading, safety codes, design factors, and combining textures, you will gain skills necessary to achieve a career in this lucrative and expanding field, thanks to the Art Institute of California-Sacramento.
Media Arts & Animation
Media Arts & Animation (BS)
Television, both network and cable, major corporations, commercial postproduction facilities, and film production companies are among the industries that make use of skills developed by graduates of The Art Institute of Sacramento. Exciting opportunities such as animation artist, special effects artist, broadcast graphics designer, and video postproduction artist are at the forefront of an industry that repackages information in creative new ways. The computer animator is a highly skilled and specialized visual communicator who combines artistic talent with technological expertise to create impressions in a moving image format.
Students begin with a substantial foundation in drawing, color, design, and computer applications. From this foundation, students develop advanced skills in various aspects of computer graphics and animation. Students learn to use the tools of the computer animation profession, ranging from computer operating systems to 3-D modeling. These tools enhance students' flexibility and creativity, and enable them to produce an individualized digital portfolio that demonstrates their practical and technical abilities to potential employers.
Web Design & Interactive Communications
Web Design & Interactive Communications
Web Design & Interactive Communications (D)
Web Design & Interactive Media
Web Design & Interactive Media
Web Design & Interactive Media (AS)
Interactive digital communications plays an integral part of the industries of advertising, design, technology, and communications. With an Associate degree in Web Design and Interactive Media from the Art Institute of California-Sacramento, you will learn the basics of this complex and varied field and be prepared to begin a career in an entry level position in this industry.
By continuing your education and advancing to a Bachelor of Science degree in Web Design and Interactive Media from the Art Institute of California- Sacramento, a student studies the more complex and detailed courses of this field, such as, elements of interface design, interactive authorship, animation, video production stages, publishing, storyboarding, and others.
Committed and dedicated staff at the Art Institute of California- Sacramento guide students through each course and offer them hands-on experience to make their learning experience a substantial experience which provides them with all the imperative tools in entering and becoming a productive and successful employee. This vast industry is changing and growing daily and with either an Associate or Bachelor of Science degree in Web Design and Interactive Media, you are being prepared to gain employment in this expanding industry.