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Apr 25, 2024
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PHT 120 - Concepts in Photography I
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 30
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
An introduction of the history of photography from the medium’s inception through the digital era. Emphasis is placed on understanding photographs from a variety of aesthetic, social, and cultural perspectives, including those of race, class, and gender. A survey of photography’s place and influence in a social, cultural, and historical context. This course helps students build confidence in their visual communication skills while also enabling them to think critically, consider the viewpoints of others, and effectively express themselves, all of which will benefit them in the classroom, in life, and in the workforce.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: Course Materials: $50.00
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Functional knowledge of photographic history and theory, the relationship of photography to the visual disciplines, and its influence on culture.
- A familiarity with and command of materials, equipment, and library resources related to the study of photography.
- Identify photographers and images by their style and historic photographic process.
- Evaluate the traditional and contemporary portrait and it’s place in our culture.
- Solve creative problems in photography, including research and synthesis of technical, aesthetic, and conceptual knowledge.
Course Objectives:
- Identify major stylistic periods and exemplary works in the international history of photography.
- Describe the materials used and the techniques employed to make a historical span of photographs.
- Compare and contrast major artistic and photographic movements, including, documentation, social documentation, Naturalism, Pictorialism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Abstract Expressionism, Social Landscape, Postmodernism.
- Create photographic interpretations of past trends in photography.
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