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| PH 232 - Basic Photography |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered summer, fall, spring. This studio elective covers the fundamentals of developing visual skills and photographic techniques. Emphasis is placed on exposure, development, printing, and aesthetics of photographic vision. The format includes class critique, darkroom and field assignments. No prerequisite. |
| PH 332 - Intermediate Photography |
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| 3 credits. Baird, Imboden. Offered summer, fall, spring. This course offers a refinement of techniques and visual skills through lectures, criticism, group discussion, assignments and darkroom work. Students are to bring samples of work to the first class. Prerequisite: PH 232. |
| PH 362 - Digital Photography I |
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| 3 credits. Heilner, staff. Offered fall, spring. This course explores the conceptual and practical principles of photography in the digital era, through lectures, readings, hands-on assignments, and field trips. Discussion topics will focus on the impact of digital technology on contemporary photographic practice, as well as the aesthetic and ethical issues surrounding it. Adobe Photoshop and other imaging software applications will be used to explore creative and experimental possibilities for manipulating photographs. Studio work will emphasize printed, still imagery, but students will also be encouraged to devise new uses for their digital materials. Introduction to input/output peripherals will include digital cameras, various scanners, ink-jet printers, film recorders and videotape. Prerequisites: PH 332 and EA 210. |
| PH 382 - Color Photography |
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| 3 credits. Wilgus. Offered fall, spring. This course deals with both the technical and aesthetic possibilities of color photography. Theory, history, and contemporary directions of color photography are explored. Students are expected to produce a portfolio of color prints. Emphasis is on shooting and printing of color negative materials. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
| Contemporary Issues & Practices in Photography |
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| PH 390 - Junior Photography Seminar |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered spring. Under the direction of the faculty member conducting this seminar, each student formulates and pursues a body of personal photographic work with an ongoing critique of work in progress. Discussion and investigation of contemporary theory and directions of photography and the arts are key parts of the seminar. Junior photography majors only. |
| Photography Internship |
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| Senior Photography Thesis Project |
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| Advanced Photography Electives |
21 |
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| Studio Electives – any departmen |
12 |
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| Total Credits in Major |
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| PH 335 - Studio Lighting |
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| 3 credits. Wilgus. Offered spring. Exploration of controlled lighting for black and white and color photography in a studio situation is studied in this course. Emphasis is placed on the use of 4" x 5" view cameras and the production of color transparencies, but all formats are used. Students use constant light sources and professional studio flash equipment to photograph subjects from small set-ups to larger sets/models. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
| PH 336 - Large Format Photography |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered fall. The view camera was the first, and continues to be the prototypical camera. In this course, students explore the long tradition of the view camera. The course emphasizes basic technical mastery and aesthetic application and aesthetic application of the view camera to the traditional areas such as architecture, people, and landscape. Cameras are provided by the school. Using 4X5" and 8X10" cameras, students gain a meaningful understanding of the potential of the large format, including a modified application of the Zone System for negative control. Students produce a body of personal work that explores these areas in depth. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
| PH 5338 - The Fine Print |
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| 3 credits. Baird. Offered spring. This studio elective is devoted to mastering the principles and practices of classic black and white silver print production. Film developing variations, printing paper, developing combinations, archival processing controls, and toning are covered. Students are encouraged to work on a single series. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
| PH 340 - Landscape Photography |
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| 3 credits. Baird. Offered fall. The tradition of landscape in photography is explored through assignments and field trips into the natural environment. Depending on the student's previous experience, they can choose to work in black and white, color, or any format size. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
| PH 343 - Environmentally Concernd Photo |
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| 3 credits. Baird. Offered fall. This course is a photographic examination of how the landscape has been altered by human incursion and the forces of nature. The course includes readings, research techniques, presentation forms, as well as group and individual projects. Participants may work in black and white or color. Prerequisite: PH 322. |
| PH 346 - Social Documentary |
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| 3 credits. Baird. Offered spring. Emphasis in this course is on humanistic experience provided by photography through the use of the camera as a means of understanding human beings in relation to each other, to their environments, and to society. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
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| PH 354 - Photographic Book |
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| 3 credits. Snyder. Offered occasionally. |
| PH 356 - The Environmental Portrait |
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| 3 credits. Baird. Offered occasionally. Concentration in this course will be on the photographic portrait that incorporates visual information beyond the representation of face. Emphasis will be on location, lighting techniques, the individual and group portrait, the single image or series, in both formal and informal situations. Additional attention will be given to contemporary and historic portaiture, the significance of the family snapshot, the portait as document, and social commentary. The course will include lectures, assignments, critiques, and individual projects. Participants can work in black and white and/or color using any appropriate format. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
| PH 360 - Image and Text |
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| From billboard advertisements and newspaper captions to the arresting and accusatory epigram and picture combinations of Barbara Kruger, words and images wrestle for our attention. Students explore poetic/political possibilities that arise when words and pictures are used in creative relationship. Each student is encouraged to develop a personal body of work which results in an extended series and portfolio of images. |
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| Social Documentary Photography |
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| PH 5375 - Narrative Strategies |
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| 3 credits. Silverman. Offered fall. It is said that a photograph wears the aspect of fact but says nothing. This ambiguity has not prevented photographs from being use to construct visual stories such as the classic picture essay. This course explores how editing and sequencing create relationships between images. The role of text and the use of allegory in contemporary photographic practice are also considered. Students have the opportunity to develop a body of work on a subject of their choice. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
| Contemporary Color Landscape |
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| PH 5385 - Image and Context |
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| 3 credits. Silverman. Offered fall. This class will exlpore the relationship between the virtual space of the photograph and the actual place in which the viewer encounters the image. The use of a lens structures vision in a particular way. Looking at a number of photographs and films, we can begin to appreciate how the quality of observation is critical in the portrayal of a situation. For instance, what does it mean to peep, stare, or survey a subject? While the first part of the class willl deal with the ramifications of lens-based vision, the second half will consider context. Whether the image is viewed on a wall or as part of an installation, in a book, or on a computer screen, issues such as size, editing and arrangement are important. The practical implications of these ideas will be realized in several short assignments, in addition to a self-initiated project toward the latter part of the semester. Students may choose to work with video or digital technology as well as photography. Prerequisite: PH 232. |
| PH 386 - Alternative Processes in Photo |
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| 3 credits. Snyder. Offered fall. This is an experimental course that introduces other processes in photography. Students learn how to make large negatives, pinhole cameras, and use hand-applied emulsions such as cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown. Prerequisite: PH 332 for Photo majors. PH 232 for others. |
| PH 5387 - Extended Image |
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| 3 credits. Snyder. Offered spring. This studio class explores the photograph in contemporary art. Students extend the photograph through installation, projection, collage/montage, public art, collaboration, mixed media, computer, etc. Projects, readings, and fieldtrips are required. Prerequisite: PH 332. |
| PH 394 - Palladium Printing |
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| 3 credits. De Luise. Offered spring. Palladium printing is a 19th century photographic process that yields an exquisite archivally sound image with a long and rich tonal range. In this class, students will use large format negatives and an ultraviolet light source to produce a final image of pure palladium. We will focus on making the appropriate negative, the subtleties of hand-coated emulsion and the importance of paper choice. Since this is a contact process, knowledge of large format will enhance your experience, although we will cover enlarging techniques for 35mm negatives as well. Prerequisites: PH 336 and PH 386. |
| Advanced Color Photography |
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| Paris: Photography in the city of lights |
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