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  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores contemporary practices of photography as an artform. Through a hands-on approach, students will manipulate photographs through various methods such as collage, object creation, and meta photography. Emphasis is placed on deconstructing a photograph using different photography techniques and printing methods. Studio sessions consist of critique, demonstration, lecture, and individual instruction.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores landscape photography using digital cameras with an emphasis on tools and techniques for beginners. Topics include lighting; macro and telephoto photography; photographing landscapes, plants and animals, water, and people. Landscape photography recognizes a wide range of photography displaying natural elements such as wildlife, plants, natural phenomena, and close-ups of natural scenes. The course will include how to set up and photograph a still life.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores street photography using digital cameras with an emphasis on tools and techniques for beginners. Topics include: lighting, macro and telephoto photography, to capture urban street scenes or moments in time. Ethics and morals in photography will be examined due to the possibility of people in the photos and consensual laws regarding publication.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Investigates relief, intaglio, silkscreen, and lithographic printmaking as a form of visual communication. Students will be introduced to each of the four printmaking processes, techniques, and the discipline's professional practices. Students are exposed to a variety of subjects, conceptual frameworks, and historical precedents, including non-Western traditions. Studio sessions include extensive work with printmaking materials, individual instruction and group critique, demonstrations, and lectures.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Investigates intaglio printing as a form of visual communication. Students learn and practice the medium's expressive potential, create various matrixes, use varied printing techniques, and are introduced to the discipline's professional practices. Students are exposed to a variety of subjects, conceptual frameworks, and historical precedents, including non-Western traditions. Studio sessions include extensive work with printmaking materials, individual instruction and group critique, demonstrations, and lectures.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Investigates relief printing as a form of visual communication. Students learn and practice the medium's expressive potential, create various matrixes, use varied printing techniques, and are introduced to the discipline's professional practices. Students are exposed to a variety of subjects, conceptual frameworks, and historical precedents, including non-Western traditions. Studio sessions include extensive work with printmaking materials, individual instruction and group critique, demonstrations, and lectures.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Investigates silkscreen printing as a form of visual communication. Students learn and practice the medium's expressive potential, create various matrixes, use varied printing techniques, and are introduced to the discipline's professional practices. Students are exposed to a variety of subjects, conceptual frameworks, and historical precedents, including non-Western traditions. Studio sessions include extensive work with printmaking materials, individual instruction and group critique, demonstrations, and lectures.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Investigates lithography printing as a form of visual communication. Students learn and practice the medium's expressive potential, create various matrixes, use varied printing techniques, and are introduced to the discipline's professional practices. Students are exposed to a variety of subjects, conceptual frameworks, and historical precedents, including non-Western traditions. Studio sessions include extensive work with printmaking materials, individual instruction and group critique, demonstrations, and lectures.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Investigates methodologies of printing by hand as a form of visual communication. Students learn and practice the medium's expressive potential, create various matrixes, use varied printing techniques, and are introduced to the discipline's professional practices. Students are exposed to a variety of subjects, conceptual frameworks, and historical precedents, including non-Western traditions. Studio sessions include extensive work with printmaking materials, individual instruction and group critique, demonstrations, and lectures.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Investigates sculpture as a form of visual communication. Students explore the medium's expressive potential, use varied printing techniques, and are introduced to the discipline's professional practices. Students are exposed to varied subjects, conceptual frameworks, and historical precedents, including non-Western traditions. Studio sessions include extended work with sculpture materials, individual instruction and group critique, demonstrations, and lecture.
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