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  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Introduction to Photography: Materials and Processes (3 credits) Exploring introductory and intermediate techniques of exposure, development, scanning and printing of black-and-white film and print materials, this course also is comprised of a special emphasis on tonal control through the creative application of the Zone System. Areas of investigation include film scanning, paper characteristics, developer choice and fabrication, print size, multi filter printing and chemical after-treatment. Further concentration is placed on aspects of design, composition, perception and content in black-and-white photographs.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Photography 1: Basic B/W Techniques (3 credits) This course is an introduction to advanced applied photography in black-and-white with an emphasis on craftsmanship, problem solving and visual communications. Further emphasis is placed on the development of the student's ability to apply creative thinking and contemporary techniques in executing meaningful and effective photographs.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Photography 2: Advanced B/W Techniques (3 credits) This course explores the choices of black and white and color as aesthetic tools in the hands of the photographer. The emphasis of this course is to develop a core understanding of color theory, perception, aesthetics and its application in digital photography.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Digital Photography 1: Basic B/W (3 credits) & Color Techniques This course continues to explore the use of color as an aesthetic tool in the hands of the creative commercial or expressive photographer. Continuing attention is paid to developing an advanced understanding and skill in the practical application of color theory, perception, aesthetics and the use of alternative color processes in digital photography. This course is designed to allow students to further pursue and resolve ideas and techniques introduced in Digital Photography 1: Basic B/W & Color Techniques. Although emphasis is placed on advanced color printing techniques and aesthetics, students are encouraged to pursue their own personal directions using appropriate tools and techniques.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Painting Techniques (3 credits) This class is only offered to students who began the program prior to Sept. 2008 The focus of this course is the elements of composition as the underlying structure of the painting. We will explore this structure or abstract design with attention to elements such as balance, harmony/dissonance, movement, rhythm, and focus.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Photographic Style, Theory, and Analysis (3 credits) The student photographer will look at ideas expressed in contemporary art/photography such as personal vs. cultural identity; privacy and individuality; the self re-imagined through advertisement, media, and technology. This course considers conceptual strategies such as appropriation, decontextualization, multiplication, systems, collecting, mapping, and surveillance. Students will investigate these and other conceptual practices as means for producing bodies of work. In looking at each other's work the student photographer will be concerned with developing and refining both critical skills and vocabulary. This course will explore these ideas as a laboratory for testing each student's own conceptual stance.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Digital Photography 2: (3 credits) Advanced Color Techniques This course introduces students to conceptual issues, photographic techniques, and creative visual problem solving relevant to commercial advertising. Creative advertising and editorial photography solutions and applications are explored and both historical and contemporary advertising photography campaigns will be discussed and analyzed. Both historical and contemporary studies of photographic composition and style will be explored. In this course, the emphasis in student photographic work will involve producing creative photographic solutions for advertising involving multiple or sequential images.
  • 3.00 Credits

    (3 credits) In this class, the photographic still life serves as a medium for creative expression and visual experimentation. Tools and techniques particular to the still-life photographer are investigated and demonstrated. The special manipulations explored include possible-choice of lighting, perspective, camera angle, surface propping, set rigging, multiple exposure, front projection and other esoteric techniques-are discussed, demonstrated and applied to assignments. Projects are in a practical vein, relating to actual typical problems that are part of a working studio's daily life. Assignments investigate the overlapping relationships of fine art, editorial and commercial still-life photography.
  • 3.00 Credits

    (3 credits) This first semester is an introduction to the fundamentals of photography. Projects will be centered around basic photographic techniques using black-and-white films, paper, and transparencies as the learning media. Basic darkroom techniques in black-and-white film processing will be emphasized.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Photography I (3 credits) Students will utilize the fundamentals they studied in Photography I, applying their knowledge and skills to fulfill various photographic assignments. In addition, students will learn how to photographically reproduce their collective artwork for their portfolios.
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