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3.00 Credits
Senior Status (3 credits) Students will be required to determine specific career goals, and to develop a proposed direction to take in their creative efforts. They will organize the existing body of their photographic work to facilitate reaching their stated career goals and propose and execute new works to help them to achieve those goals. While students will each propose and develop their own individual projects, the class itself will become a critique and support group meeting wherein the student will receive weekly feedback from the instructor and their peers. Students will be required to develop their critical and diplomatic communication skills, and to participate fully and honestly in the weekly critiques.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Portfolio 1: Photography (3 credits) This course is the continuation of the portfolio process initiated in the class Portfolio 1. Special emphasis in this class will be placed upon developing further, and finishing the body of work begun in Portfolio 1. Students will continue to be required to develop their critical and diplomatic communication skills, and to participate fully and honestly in the weekly critiques.
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2.00 Credits
(2 Credits) This class is only offered to students who begin the program in Sept. 2007 and beyond This course serves as an introduction to the power, scope, and richness of the mathematical ideas used in the modern world, with an emphasis on developing students' problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytic skills in dealing with quantities and their magnitudes and interrelationships. Students will explore a variety of topics that involve mathematical reasoning and in doing so gain confidence and the ability to use various quantitative methods to solve problems.
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2.00 Credits
(2 credits) Students will explore the development of the "self" by becoming acquainted with a variety of theories. These may include ego and personality development, the spectrum of consciousness and the unconscious, collective and personal consciousness, and physiological determinants such as right/left hemispheric brain functions. Students will be expected to explore the nature of individualization and self-actualization.
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3.00 Credits
(3 credits) In this studio class, students will feel their way through the elements of sculpture, including mass, form, placement, technique, and material. Lecture and reading assignments will be followed by discussion and projects intended to create an understanding of the spatial character and nature of three-dimensional artwork.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Self Awareness, or (2 credits) Human Relations This course is an introduction to contemporary methods and thought in psychology. This will include examining personality theory, methods of psychological inquiry, and the effects of the body on psychological functioning.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Photography 1: Basic B/W Techniques (3 credits) This course introduces the use of artificial lighting to create photographs in a controlled environment. Lighting techniques are demonstrated and applied in a series of photographic exercises. Both "hot lights" and electronic flash are used to achieve total control of composition, color, contrast and reflection. Emphasis is placed on the technical mastery of complex equipment, coupled with an aesthetic understanding of the physical principles of light.
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3.00 Credits
(3 credits) Senior status This class is only offered to students who began the program prior to Sept. 2008 Each student applying for the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication must complete in their final semester a thesis as approved by the director of Northwest College of Art and the Senior Thesis instructor(s). The thesis will be comprised of four parts: (1) a body of work consistent with the goals of the student (media to be determined by the student); (2) a written thesis with a research component discussing proposed media, subject, and content of the thesis work, and the student's future goals; (3) documentation of artwork in the form of slides or computer-generated imagery; and (4) an oral examination given and evaluated by the thesis committee. The final thesis work will be exhibited in a graduation exhibition at Northwest College of Art. A thesis committee, consisting of no fewer than three active faculty members, will evaluate each student's progress. The student must satisfactorily complete each part of the thesis requirements in order to receive a passing grade for the class and to be considered eligible for graduation.
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2.00 Credits
(2 credits) This class is only offered to students who began the program prior to Sept. 2008 A field trip class specifically designed for graduating students, Senior Seminar investigates the changing face of the art profession. Focusing on current trends in the marketplace, students will develop a clear and essential view of the processes and practices of their chosen vocation.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Fine Art Photography 1: Advanced Problems Senior Status (2 credits) & Projects; Commercial Photographic Practices, and Photojournalism This class is the first of a two-part class structure wherein the student begins development and production of their required senior thesis. Each student applying for the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography must complete a thesis as approved by the director of Northwest College of Art and the Senior Thesis instructor(s). The thesis will be comprised of four parts: (1) a body of work consistent with the goals of the student, (2) a written thesis with a research component discussing proposed media, subject, and content of the thesis work, and the student's future goals; (3) documentation of artwork in the form of slides or computer-generated imagery; and (4) an oral examination given and evaluated by the thesis committee. The final thesis work will be exhibited as part of a graduation exhibition at Northwest College of Art. A thesis committee, consisting of no fewer than three active faculty members, will evaluate each student's progress. The student must satisfactorily complete each part of the thesis requirements in order to receive a passing grade for the class and to be considered eligible for graduation.
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