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4.00 Credits
Documentary focuses on understanding and creating documentary photography and video while exploring its history, traditions and role in contemporary society. Readings and lectures will explore how photojournalists greatly expanded the boundaries of documentary photography through new mass media publications and how documentary photography also made its first significant inroad into the world of fine art. The course will focus on the idea of the documentary as an approach inseparable from the photographer's particular viewpoint and aesthetic concerns. This course offers the opportunity to hone research, shooting and editing skills.
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Darkroom/Alternative Processes is an introduction to traditional photographic practices and procedures for using light to create imagery. With an emphasis on personal vision, this course will develop art-related technological skills, personal aesthetics, an awareness of the history of photography, and critical thinking related to image production. The course will present an introduction to 19th -century photographic processes: cyanotype and Van Dyke brown prints, calotype or palladium printing, camera and film manipulations, and the use of liquid photographic emulsions. Students will have the opportunity to build their own pinhole cameras, learn digital technology for creating photographic negatives for contact printing and become proficient in the use of darkroom and printing facilities. Group and individual assignments will be given to push the creative boundaries of analog photography. Reading, writing and presentation assignments will provide context of the history, practices and current practitioners using these varied techniques.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: AAV 140 Video I builds on time-based knowledge and skills learned in AAV 140/4-D. It advances student's technical and conceptual understanding of video with an emphasis on editing and building a personal vocabulary. Students will focus on production skills (using different sound sources, lighting, and advanced framing) and post-production skills. The course will be taught by demonstration, lecture, presentations, and critiques.
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Prerequisite: Reserved for Visual Arts majors specializing in Graphic Design. History of Graphic Design introduces the historical development of the discipline and its affiliations to the culture. The significant design events, movements, artifacts, designers, and their principles will be presented. In addition, current social, economical, and technological issues that designers' manage will also be addressed. The goal of the course is to encourage students to apply the philosophical examinations they learn from this course to their career, and establish an awareness of the balance between creativities and its social context.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Reserved for Visual Arts majors specializing in Graphic Design and Graphic Design minors. Design Fundamentals explores two-dimensional forms as a foundation for visual communication. Emphasis will be placed upon visual perception, organization skills, and historical context. This course introduces formal graphical elements such as shape, texture, color, composition, contrast, as the essentials for delivering information in visual form, and examines how we communicate abstract ideas through image and text.
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Prerequisite: Reserved for Visual Arts majors specializing in graphic design and graphic design minors. Typography introduces the discipline, function, history, and the impact of typography on graphic design. It discusses the use of typography as the primary tool in conveying ideas, and the anatomical structures of letterform to manipulate contents and legibility. The course will also cover various typesetting techniques such as traditional type specimen and copy fitting, and contemporary software and hardware.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: AAV 251, AAV 252 Conceptual Image is offered as an experimental workshop expanding the students' conceptual, theoretical, and technical skills in the area of image-making. This course will focus on semiotic analysis of contemporary use of symbols, illustrations, and photography in delivering information, and discuss how historical, cultural, and technological influences transform visual styles of graphic design.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: AAV 251 Computers for Designers introduces computer software used by professional designers and continues to develop students' creative problem solving skills. The course will focus on how computers are utilized to generate artwork for print production and increased conceptual proficiency. The technical competency gained will be utilized in the majority of advanced design classes.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: AAV 251, AAV 252 An introduction to web production and design, the course will begin by covering the use and function of HTML and CSS. There will be technical lectures and demonstrations presenting the various hardware and software technologies used for web production. The technical presentations will be accompanied by instruction on web design standards as well as analysis of a variety of design approaches.
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4.00 Credits
(same as IMM 210/Animation I) Prerequisite: AAV 130 This course surveys traditional and computer animation history, techniques, and terminology. The student will learn basic concepts and skills of 3D digital imaging, animation, rendering, and principles of motion and continuity. The student will produce three-dimensional animation.
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