This course is designed to introduce students to the art and
techniques of digital photography and video, emphasizing their
relationship to art and contemporary image culture. Techniques
introduced in this course are put into practice through 
technical exercises that revolve around image capture devices, 
computer manipulation, and image interpretation. Classroom 
discussions will engage students in the historical, technical, 
and contemporary aspects of the art of photography and video.
Students will be required to engage assignment topics and present
their work in the context of historical and contemporary 
practices within the medium. In presenting his/her work, each
student will be expected to assimilate and analyze the topic of
the assignment and present the work orally as well as through
various modes and media, including photographic prints and
digital projections. Students will be expected to engage other
students' work with dialogue that is stylistically appropriate
and mature. During critiques, students will learn to communicate
for academic and professional contexts supporting a consistent
purpose and point of view while considering and engaging opposing
points of view. Students will be required to interpret inferences
within each work being discussed, developing subtleties of
symbolic and indirect discourse.

This course will address contemporary image culture, emphasizing 
concepts and ideas within photographic imagery and their
relationship to art and society. Techniques introduced will
include an introduction to the camera, its controls, vision and
tools for image capture, manipulation, and output. Lectures and
discussions will engage the contemporary cultural impact of
images, introducing a wide range of practitioners, and modes of 
dialogue from the print to the Internet. Major concepts and
practice will be engaged through corequisite enrollment in a
laboratory course engaging discussion, practice, and critiques.

UGA Student Honor Code: "I will be academically honest in all of
my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of
others." A Culture of Honesty, the University's policy and
procedures for handling cases of suspected dishonesty, can be
found at www.uga.edu/ovpi. Every course syllabus should include
the instructor's expectations related to academic integrity.