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| Stratford Career Institute offers a variety of creative and artistic distance learning courses that could help you start an exciting new career. These innovative career training courses offer engaging and challenging ways to develop your creative talents. Check out our complete list of creative courses below. Enroll online today! |
| Art |
| Stratford Art students are taught professional techniques and perform practical projects in the media of pencil, charcoal and chalk drawing, pastel and water color painting, acrylic painting, and oil painting. In each area, special sections provide advanced training in such areas as perspective, correcting paintings, and portrait painting. All the essential tools and art supplies are provided. |
| Cooking & Catering |
| Cooking & Catering offers quality cooking instruction to help prepare you to enter into a career field which ranks among the most favorable in the economy. Not only are you given detailed practical cooking instruction from the experts on preparing food, but you will develop all of the other skills that are critical to your success, including selling and booking affairs and financial and legal considerations. |
| Cosmetology/Esthetics |
| The Cometology/Esthetics program is your at-home beauty school. Students are provided with the skills required to perform professional services and information needed to open and operate a salon business. You will learn everything you would learn in a traditional beauty school including skin care, make-up artistry, hair styling and care, and nail technology. |
| Creative Writing |
| Stratford's Creative Writing course develops the knowledge and skills necessary for success as an author. It focuses on the medium of the short story and covers all phases of skillful fiction writing. This creative writing course concentrates on theme and strategy, characters and viewpoint, plot, dialogue, and revision. Professional authors share tips and provide detailed examples. |
| Fashion Merchandising and Design |
| Start toward a new moneymaking career in Fashion Merchandising and Design with Stratford Career Institute. Train at home in your spare time, using proven learning methods perfected by Stratford, an innovative leader in home study training courses. |
| Florist/Floral Design |
| Florist/Floral Design incorporates step-by-step instruction in floral arrangements, flower preservation and care, and developing a professional retail environment with an emphasis on the fundamental skills and methods used by commercial floral design experts. |
| Interior Decorating |
| Stratford’s Interior Decorating course is intended for both the dedicated amateur and established career professionals. All aspects of design styles and components are explored with the aid of numerous illustrations and examples. Elements of design, sources and resources, period decoration, and design materials all receive extensive treatment. Both technical and administrative aspects of the professional decorator's work are presented. |
| Photography |
| Stratford's Photography course is for recreational photographers as well as those seeking to earn a living as professionals. Coverage is provided on modern cameras, lenses, films, and accessories. How-to sections cover topics such as exposure, processing, filters, lighting, and flash. Special sections trace composition and print quality and applied photography. Students receive a guide to earning a living as a photographer, and a publication listing 2,500 buyers of freelance photos. |
| Sewing & Dressmaking |
| The Sewing & Dressmaking course teaches the professional technical skills and artistic flair needed to create quality garments. Topics include sewing machines, supplies, patterns, fabrics, fitting methods, construction techniques, necklines, collars, waistlines, sleeves, pockets, hems, closures, and much more. Special sections explore techniques of tailoring, sewing garments for men and children, and home sewing projects such as draperies. |
| Wedding Consultant |
| As a professional Wedding Consultant, it will be your responsibility to create weddings that will be cherished forever. Stratford's Wedding Consultant course can help you learn everything from event planning to starting your own wedding consultant business. Then you can enjoy the personal satisfaction from the excitement on the faces of the bride, the groom and their family and friends when the big day finally arrives. |
| Writing Stories for Children |
| Writing Stories for Children was designed by professional writers to help you hone your writing skills and to appreciate the qualities that make a children's book a well-read favorite. Your course of study will show you how to find good ideas that will hold a young reader's attention and are worthy of being published. |
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