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PHT 121 - Concepts in Photography II


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:
This seminar course familiarizes students with concepts, aesthetic trends, and practice in contemporary photography. The first half of the course examines photography from the mid-1950s to the present, using slide lectures, readings, presentations, and field work to think about important practitioners of the medium. The second half of the course includes discussion of critical topics in contemporary photography, organized around themes such as memory, surveillance, text and image, and participatory culture. 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:
 

  1. Recognize and analyze the history and social role of photography. Advanced discussions and research pertaining past and present trends in photography. 
  2. An advanced command of materials, equipment, and library resources related to the study of photography.  
  3. Interpret contemporary theory and forms and the contextualization of photography within the larger world of the arts. 
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of the photographic arts as essential to the spiritual, cultural and expressive life of a community. 
  5. Students will begin to construct images that show evidence of their understanding of the value of light, pose, gesture, composition, and environment and how to fashion these elements for creative effect and to take responsibility for every aspect of their image. 

Course Objectives 

  1. Compare and contrast various photographic processes including daguerreotype,wet-plate process, tintype, ambrotype, albumen print, gelatin silver process,early color processes, and digital technology. 
  2. Appraise the effects of the invention of photography on society, delineating changes in artistic expression in photographs to changes in society, including impact on the greater history of western civilization and the issue of truth in photographs. 
  3. Describe how both the history of fine art and political and economic situations have influenced the creation of photographs and their meaning and significance. 
  4.  Examine various meanings and photographic images. 



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