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 
are taught through technical exercises that revolve around 
image capture devices, computer manipulation, and image 
interpretation. Slide lectures, classroom discussions, 
readings, and quizzes will expose the students to 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. Students must have a laptop running the 
latest version of Adobe Lightroom for the course.

This course will address contemporary image culture, 
emphasizing concepts and ideas within photographic imagery, and 
their relationship to art and society. 
Techniques 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. 
Class time will be divided between lectures, discussions, lab 
work and critiques.