An introduction to digital photographic image making. Course acquaints students with photographic equipment and techniques used to create and disseminate digital images. Aesthetic, conceptual, and cultural issues surrounding the production and application of photographic images are also discussed.

An introduction to composited photographic images. Course provides a broad primer to digital editing and compositing techniques. Lectures and discussions provide artistic and ethical context for contemporary photographic practice.

Prerequisite: PHOT 11.

Fee course.

Focuses on photography's influence on notions of self from its inception in 1938 to the present. Enhances students' understanding of how and why photography became the powerful and ubiquitous tool that shaped a new form of visual self-expression.

Course covers basic concepts and skills in chemical-process photography. Emphasis is placed on basic camera theory, film exposure and development, darkroom printing, and post processing techniques. Lectures, discussions, and assignments provide artistic and historical context for the creation and interpretation of photographic images.

Note: This course requires safety training. This course requires personal protective equipment (PPE).

Introduces students to the history of photography, from inception to Mid-20th Century. Practices of photographers and artists, working with photographic technologies, will be discussed. The course examines photographic vision and the impact of the medium through lectures and readings by art historians and photographers.

Cross-listed: ART 101.

Covers intermediate to advanced concepts and techniques in digital photographic practice, providing students with the ability to explore both new and previously mastered software and hardware applications. Emphasis is on using digital techniques to generate and print effective and imaginative photographs. Lectures, discussion, and assignments focus on expanding the technical, aesthetic, and conceptual concerns surrounding the creation of contemporary photographic images.

Prerequisite: PHOT 11 and PHOT 40

Course covers intermediate level concepts and skills in chemical-process photographic practice. Emphasis is placed on the artistic potential of camera- and darkroom-based image production and manipulation. Lectures, discussions, and assignments focus on expanding the aesthetic and conceptual concerns surrounding the creation and application of photographic imagery.

Prerequisite: PHOT 40 and PHOT 11

Note: This course requires safety training. This course requires personal protective equipment (PPE).

Covers advanced problems in the process of creating photographic work. Emphasis is on the ways which content/form relationships within a body of work are informed by the artist's conceptual and material engagement, as well as the way in which process and context shape meaning in photographic work. Course centers on readings in contemporary theory and aesthetics, discussion, the production of photographic work, and critique.

Prerequisite: PHOT 148 and PHOT 155

Fee course.

Note: Type III Fee, $45

This class is a broad investigation of photography's potential. Each semester the class concentrates on a photographic strategy including but not limited to: documentary, journalism, fabrication, image and text, and the archive. Students are introduced to photography's varied application, new developments and conversations in the medium. Readings and discussions will enlist a range of theoretical and critical approaches. Course center on readings, discussion, production of photographic work and critique.

Prerequisite: PHOT 148 and PHOT 155