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3.00 Credits
Selected Topics in PHIL
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3.00 Credits
Photography has been constantly changing as technological developments allow for endless experimentation. This class is designed to allow students to become familiar with visual arts and the artistic process using the camera as a tool for personal expression. Photography will be approached through several lenses including smart phones, digital and film SLR's, as well as darkroom processing. Topics will include photojournalism, conceptual photography/art, and studio photography (commercial, portraiture and still life). Students will be encouraged to research photographers and industry styles based on topics supplied by the instructor. Additionally, students will obtain experience in a number of photographic areas and will build an understanding of what kind of careers can be obtained through photography. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to: (1) Analyze lens-based media beyond the stereotypes and current trends used by social media. (2) Gain knowledge of and develop an appreciation for photography by defining the medium and learning how to control the camera. (3) Identify various careers photography has to offer. (4) Research topics including photographers and the work they have created as well as ideas that have been proposed through photography. (5) Explain the basic functions of camera including: F-stop, Shutter speed. ISO, and use an SLR to demonstrate knowledge/focus on these skills. (6) Evaluate and discuss photographs and photography in order to criticize what a photograph is today in the digital world. (7) Identify various photographic techniques and styles.
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3.00 Credits
Understanding the Foundations of Art & Design is essential to art and design practices, critical thinking, and the comprehension and application of principles within visual art expression. This course entails hands-on creation while emphasizing creative and critical thinking, perception and observation, problem solving, visual analysis, as well as identifying vocabulary, theory, media, and the techniques of studio practice. Course Objectives 1) Interpret the critical perspectives of historical and theoretical contexts and approaches that inform contemporary art design practices, critical thinking and the analysis of visual culture. 2) Practice observational and perceptual approaches through a variety of drawing, painting, and three dimensional methods. 3) Consider structure to building, and underlying organizational principles, to realize ideas in multiple physical and conceptual dimensions. 4) Examine spatial and utilitarian dynamics of objects. 5) Experiment with tools used for creating images and manipulate the environment to participate in re-defining its original intended context. 6) Apply aesthetic and social possibilities to art and design practices to consider issues of site, community, and material culture.
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3.00 Credits
Still Photography is intended for the non-major student. The course introduces photographic vision and practice and requires a digital camera. Students will engage their compositional and creative eye throughout the semester while learning about limited historic and contemporary works. Course Objectives (1) Demonstrate how to operate a digital SLR camera, as well as the basics of composition, lighting, and digital darkroom workflow (2) Demonstrate how to work with various photo editing software and digital image files, as well as receive a foundation in digital printing techniques (3) Participate in critiques (4) Develop cohesive portfolio through assignments (5) Develop cohesive portfolio assignments through communicates artistic intent through written artist statements
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Selected Topics in PHT
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3.00 Credits
In this introductory photography course, students will become familiar with visual arts and the artistic process of using a camera for personal expression. PHOT 204 allows hands-on experience and introduces the technique of an SLR film camera, developing and printing in the darkroom. Students will learn to discuss and analyze photography through structured critiques. Students are encouraged to have their own film SLR cameras for this course (must have adjustable lens openings, shutter speeds and full manual control). Course Objectives (1) Define and employ photographic terminology associated with camera parts, photographic processes, darkroom techniques, the photographic image and print making. 2) Create photographs at proper exposure(density, contrast,shadow detail, and highlights), with a basic understanding of compositional elements in photography. 3) Develop film and print photographs at a competent level. 4) Applystrategies and techniques learned from instructor and peer critiques, as well as from photographic history, to continually improve photographic skill and performance. 5) Observe and classify film photography in various contexts, such as fine art, conceptual, theoretical, ethical, historical, social, and technological
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3.00 Credits
A basic digital photography course designed to give photography and photojournalism students proficiency in digital image making and processing. It stresses the importance and uses of digital photography in the current media environment, including terminology, practical exercise, and presentation. Students utilize Adobe Lightroom for editing, and are encouraged to purchase the program and their own digital SLR cameras. Course Objectives (1) Define and employ photographic terminology associated with digital camera parts, digital photographic processes, the qualities of digital photographs, image-editing software and inkjet printers. 2) Produce digital imagery at proper exposure with a digital SLR camera. 3) Create high resolution digital photographs through image software and inkjet photo-quality printers. 4) Utilize post-production tools to create metadata, organize, edit, and print photographs. 5) Apply strategies and techniques learned from instructor and peer critiques, as well as from photographic history, to continually improve photographic skill and performance. 6) Observe and classify digital photography in its various contexts, such as fine art, conceptual, theoretical, ethical, historical, social, and technological.
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3.00 Credits
In this survey of the origins and developmental phases of photography, students will examine technical innovations with emphasis on historical motivations and changing climates of aesthetic intent, philosophical rationale, and visual experimentation in the history of photography from the early 19th century to the mid 20th century.Special concentration will be place on marginalized groups that are not fairly represented in photographic history textbooks. Course Objectives 1) Identify the key developments, motivations, techniques and practices in photographic discourse since the early 19th century. 2) Articulate various ideas within photographic statements, influenced by prominent image makers of the past. 3) Demonstrate facility with the process of critical analysis required to understand and apperciate, positively or negatively, the work of other photographers as well as one's own image making. 4) Analyze the medium; become informed and aware image-makers. 5) Identify and explain ethical debates and critical positions of prominent theorists. 6) Connect the contexts of cultural and intellectual history with the history of photographic discourse and moral philosophies. 7) Compare historical norms and moral philosophies within the medium which have contributed to social marginalization today.
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3.00 Credits
This course will give an overview of the key photographic critical writings and theoretical debates, their social and political contexts, and their expression in key works within the history of photographic discourse. PHOT 208 builds upon the introduction to historical practice presented in PHOT 207 to facilitate informed looking at and thinking about photographs as densely-coded cultural artifacts which operate in a complex system of social and cultural relationships. Intended to provide a broad understanding of the theory and practice informing photographic history and discourse, the course is the foundation for advanced photography courses. Additional emphasis is placed on marginalized photographic topics. Prerequisites: None. PHOT 207 recommended for BFA majors. Course Objectives 1) Identify prominent developments, motivations, techniques and practices in photographic discourse from World War II to the present. 2) Articulate various ideas within photographic statements, influenced by contemporary artists. 3) Practice critical analysis required to understand and apperciate, positively or negatively, the work of other photographers as well as one's own image making. 4) Criticize the medium;become informed and aware artists. 5) Identify and explain ethical debates and critical positions of prominent theorists relevant today. 6) Connect the framework of a rapidly changing medium which have influenced how we define photography. 7) Discuss moral philosophies and within the medium that continue to contribute to social marginalization today.
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