ART 1032 - Photography: Digital

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab 2 studio
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course integrates aesthetic and technical challenges and strengthens visual problem-solving skills using the medium of digital photography. This class builds on the basics of digital cameras image editing software, and digital printing processes. Projects address a range of design, aesthetic, and conceptual issues fundamental to the art of digital photography. Strong emphasis is on the strengthening of both a technical foundation and a critical awareness of the medium as a creative tool.
MnTC Goals
Goal 6

Prerequisite(s): ART 1031 or Instructor consent 

and

Course placement into ENGL 1021 OR completion of ENGL 0950 with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940 with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of ENGL 0090 with a grade of C or higher and RDNG 0950 with a grade of C or higher OR course placement into ESOL 1033 or completion of ESOL 0043 with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0051 with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052 with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

1. demonstrate effective solutions to creative assignments applying knowledge of the materials, research contemporary issues in art making, and creative problem-solving skills.
2. apply intermediate technical elements of photography, such as exposure and editing, printing, and methods of presentation.
3. demonstrate an ability to critique artworks, utilizing terms common to art.
4. articulate formal and theoretical concepts within art, specifically within the area of digital photography.
5. demonstrate intermediate craftsmanship and presentation methods in their creative work.
6. identify a wide variety of exemplary works of contemporary art as well as works of historical significance.

 
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Goal 6
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
06. 01. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
06. 04. Engage in the creative process or interpretive performance.
06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
NA

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