Art Degrees Online

Advanced Color Printing
This course is designed to develop the student’s visual style through their exploration of a wide variety of film exposure, darkroom printing and digital imaging techniques.

Artists’ Book
Through artists’ books, you will consider the necessary relationship between structure and content, word and image, while also investigating elements of sequencing, narrative, pacing, ordering of time and space, typography. and materials unique to book making.

Beyond the Documentary
Each student will explore a documentary project of his/her choice within a traditional paradigm or one that challenges the documentary style and methodology to portray the complexity of culture and the everyday. This can be achieved in a variety of ways using collaboration, self-portraiture, text-based imagery, traditional documentary models, constructed (or ‘faux’) realism.

Bodies in Space
Bodies in Space is an advanced elective class about making photographic art in response to the urban environment. The class is designed to help students develop methodologies for observation and for the development of a cohesive body of work.

Conceptual Process: Contemp Strat.
Appropriation, decontextualization, multiplication, systems, collecting, mapping, surveillance. Students will investigate these and other conceptual practices as means for producing bodies of work.

Deconstructing the Domestic
IMAGES OF HOME IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
This course will explore the role and treatment of domesticity in contemporary photography and film. Over the course of the semester, students will produce photographs to complete three assignments, each of which will explore a different theme relating to the topic of domesticity.

Design 2: Line to Pixel
Part two of a year-long required six-hour lab course introduces students to 2D and 3D design elements through the use of the computer and the traditional design studio. Special emphasis will be placed on integrating design and photographic assignments and on using digital technology to solve design problems.

Design 3: Capture to Print
The course focuses on the aesthetics and technical skills used in creating a fine digital print, from capture to print. Color management and workflow techniques will be emphasized as a basis for image control in the studio as well as outside sources.

Design 4: Pixel to Cyberspace
The last course in the required digital sequence allows students to delve deeper into Photoshop as well as learning; digital asset management and how to create a better personal workflow. Web sites and use of imagery on the web will also be explored.

Digital Cinema
This class will explore time-based concepts as they relate to imaging and digital media. This advanced investigation explores imagery as it relates to time, narrative, sequence, dialectic montage, poly-linear and extra-linear structures. Software utilized include Flash, Final Cut Pro and Sound Edit.

Drawing
Part one of a year long required course that introduces photo students to elements of drawing with special emphasis placed on integrating drawing principles and photographic seeing.

Drawing & Painting
Part two of a year-long course builds on basic elements of drawing that were introduced in the first semester. Students will explore the elements of color through painting. Emphasis is placed on developing the skills of seeing and developing an understanding about composition, color and learning through process of critical observation.

Experiments
This course will concentrate on alternative printing techniques using camera-generated negatives. Techniques covered will include making enlarged negatives, printing with liquid emulsion, palladium printing, cyanotype, and Polaroid transfers and lifts.

Experiments: Pixel to Paper
An exploratory class that will focus on integrating photo quality digital imaging with traditional art making processes. The focus will be on printed still images as well as mixed media. Class will alternate weekly between lecture/demos and critiques.

Exploring Portraiture
This class will explore the lighting and history of portraiture. The instructor will focus on and demonstrate ways to use natural light to create portraits and will also discuss the theory and practice of portraiture on location in both the commercial and fine art settings.

Fashion Photgraphy 1: Concept
An exploration of the basis of fashion photography. This class will give you an overview of the history of fashion photography as well as provide a working knowledge of; current trends in clothing, hair, make-up, styling, and producing a a fashion shoot.

Fashion Photography II
In the second semester of Fashion Photography, you will learn how to work with models, hair and make-up artists and stylists through a series of shoots both in and outside of class. Working models, as well as hair and make-up stylists, will be provided for some of the in class projects.

Freshman Seminar I
This introductory seminar explores the multiple modes and roles of photography. In a supportive atmosphere students are encouraged to explore the possibilities of the medium, embrace creative risk, and tackle aesthetic concerns as they refine their craft.

Freshman Seminar II
In part two of this year-long course, students will continue their exploration of photography’s multiple modes and roles. Students will continue to explore the dialectic between form and concept and the potentialities of the medium. Students will utilize both traditional and digital image capture and output and will work in both black & white and color.

Image Making, Research and Theory
In this course students will examine how photographic image making both informs and is informed by critical theory and research. The practices of key photographic artists and key theoretical ideas will be examined and discussed.

Imagery and Design
The class introduces the principles of graphic design through actual design problems—designing a book or a magazine—with emphasis on the integration of type with imagery.

Instinct & Metaphor
This method introduces chance, spontaneity and time into the visual media in a new way. And these have often led to metaphor, as in Stieglitz’s equivalents. This class will study such spontaneous photographers as they have worked in fine arts and commercial photography.

Intermediate Photography
This is an intermediate course to photography as a visual language and will teach students the technique, aesthetics and theory of photographic images through a variety of assignments, readings, field trips and lectures. Students are encouraged to experiment with different modes of photography and to create a final project based on individual interests.

Introductory Photography
A one semester introduction to photography course that centers on developing skills in using handheld cameras, both traditional and digital. Students will learn black and white films and papers and the equivalents for digital technology. Although both traditional and digital darkroom techniques will be introduced in class, this is not a darkroom class.

Junior Seminar 1
This course continues the dialogues that began in Sophomore Seminar. Students will further explore the language and theory of photography, and will begin to apply critical and technical skills in defining their own photographic statement.

Junior Seminar 2
Students will further explore the language and theory of photography and will begin to apply critical and technical skills in defining their own photographic statement. Included will be papers, visits to shows, and working throughout the year on developing a personal style.

Lighting: On the Edge
In today’s competitive marketplace every photographer needs an edge. Whether you shoot in the studio or on location, photograph people or products learning to light is essential. Creative lighting should be part of your photographic signature.

Location Lighting
In this class you will learn to light with strobes, reflected light and natural light on location though the execution of several shoots. We will explore and discuss lighting outdoors and interiors.

Moments of Clarity
In this course students will create a series of spreads, stories, or narratives as they apply in the diverse editorial marketplace. From fashion, entertainment, portraiture to documentary, the class will discuss how stories are created from concept to the finished story or essay. Each story is approached with the idea of where the finished project will best be published and how to go about getting it there. Practical and conceptual issues will be addressed and applied.

Performance and Photography
This advanced, studio-based course will explore various notions of representation and the use of the self and/or surrogates in performances for the camera. We will begin by establishing a formal and theoretical basis that will help us define “performance”.

Photo Topics: BETWEEN ART AND LIFE
BETWEEN ART AND LIFE
This course takes as its point of departure Robert Rauschenberg’s famous remark, “Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two).”

Photo Topics: FACE TO FACE…
FACE TO FACE: PHOTOGRAPHY POLITICS
Artists and intellectuals acknowledge how profoundly history and politics inflect creativity and the process of representation. In times of struggle as insurgent acts have become every day events, artists/photographers direct their cameras as a means of resistance, to document, to express their ideological positions or to reflect on the social effects of violence.

Photo Topics: INSIGHT OUT
INSIGHT OUT: SELF AS SUBJECT
A self-portrait is more than just a recorded reflection or presence of ourselves; it is a way to discover our point of view and opinions about the world around us. Finding ourselves in our subject matter leads us to discover our vision of life and how to best depict that vision by photographic means.

Photo Topics: WHAT MAKES PHOTO…
WHAT MAKES PHOTOGRAPHY “ART”?
The photograph as “art” is a creative visual document that is a form of personal expression and a revealing mirror on the individuals that produce these images, and the various culture(s) that influence them.

Photographing Architecture & Design
The class will engage the art of architectural photography in fine arts and the commercial realm, as well as examine architectural photography’s history.

Photography 1
This course is an introduction to photography as a visual language and will teach students the technique, aesthetics and theory of photographic images through a variety of assignments, readings, field trips and lectures. Students are encouraged to experiment with different modes of photography and to create a final project based on individual interests.

Photography 2: Photography as…
PHOTOGRAPHY AS SECOND LANGUAGE
The goal of this class is to teach how to think and “speak” in pictures and to stimulate the curiosity to look at and photograph the society we share. Before there were words, there were pictures: pictograms, hieroglyphs, and the language of gesture. The class will begin with projects designed to introduce the grammar of photography, the choices photographers make to ensure their pictures communicate clearly information, ideas and feelings.

Photography 2: Photojournalism
In this class, through the study of great photojournalisitic images and weekly asignments, students learn how to use images to tell a story while developing a personal vision.

Photography as Activism
Blending theory, history and practice, this course examines the nature and methods of activist photography and photographers since the 19th Century. Students engage in the process of photography as activism throughout the course.

Photography as Expanded Media
In contemporary art, photographic processes are a starting point to create works that expand from traditional notions of the print. In this course, the technologies and ideas of photography can be mined as a starting point for projects in expanded media.

Picturing Sexuality
The class examines the Female and Male Body from the origin of Photography to the present. The class will explore the evolution of the body and sexuality in Photography through its beginnings in Anthropology, in Art Photography including the Victorian era, Surrealism, Fashion Photography, on through to contemporary photography from throughout the world, including Helmut Newton, Nobuoyoshi Araki, Francesca Woodman, Avedon, Man Ray, Julia Margaret Cameron and many others.

Portraiture
This class will discuss and explore the portrait as it exists in the editorial, corporate and advertising worlds. We will demonstrate the various solutions and lighting techniques applicable to these fields. Practical assignments will be given to help students understand how to problem solve technically as they are confronted with various lighting situations.

Professional Internship
Work in a commercial photo studio, an artist’s studio, the photography department of a magazine or for the photography department of a museum under the supervision of established photographers and editors.

Senior Seminar 1
Seniors will identify and complete a photographic “senior thesis” in this course. They will be required to define their project and present it in final form by the last class of the semester.

Senior Seminar 2
The second semester prepares the student for senior exhibition and professional aspects as a free-lance photographer.

Senior Seminar Lab 1
The class covers business practices for commercial and fine art photographers. We will discuss marketing, branding, bidding, pricing fine art and commercial work, copyright, resumes, galleries, artist statements, editing and packaging your work for presentation, and how to meet and approach galleries, magazines and ad agencies, among other topics.

Senior Seminar Lab 2
Senior Seminar Lab 2 is a production class. You will work on web sites to accompany your other promotional materials.

Senior Thesis Tutorial
In correlation to Senior Seminar, this required independent study will allow students and instructors to meet with each other and discuss projects. Times and locations will be at the discretion of each instructor.

Sophomore Seminar 1
Building on the first year experience, students continue to hone their vision and perfect their technical skills. Participants continue their exploration of the language and theory of photography and will begin to apply critical and technical skills in defining their own photographic statement. Emphasis will be placed on concept development, the creative process and work ethic.

Sophomore Seminar 2
This course serves as a bridge from Sophomore Seminar I to Junior Seminar. Students will further explore the language and theory of photography and will begin to apply critical and technical skills in defining their own photographic statement. Included will be papers, visits to shows, and working throughout the year on developing a personal style.

Storytelling and Photography
Can a picture tell a story? What is the relationship of photography to cinema? How have the movies influenced contemporary photographic practice whether it is fine art, editorial or commercial? These are just some of the questions that will be addressed in this class. The class will give students an opportunity to create narrative-based pictures that are influenced by a variety of cinematic styles developed throughout the 20th Century.

Studio and Ligh 2: Accessories…
In this class, students will photograph fashion accessories as still life, on people, and in beauty photographs. Models and accessories will be supplied by the students.

Studio and Light 1
Students will learn the expressive and emotional characteristics of different types of light, both artificial and natural, as well as gain the skills to light any surface and to handle any studio situation. Students concentrate on studio lighting scenarios, ranging from portraits to still life in the studio and beyond.

Studio and Light 2: Advertising
In this course students will explore various applications of lighting in the advertising world. The class will address lifestyle advertising in studio and on location, as well as people and products in the studio, in addition to other areas of advertising photography.

Studio and Light 2: Fashion
This course will explore the basics of lighting for Fashion Photography. Both hard and soft light sources will be used and various applications will be discussed.

Studio and Light 2: Portraiture
In this class, students will explore lighting as it applies to traditional and contemporary portraiture.

Studio and Light 2:Lighting Project
This section asks the student to discover the sources and nature of light and then invites the student to play with and explore them.

The Art of Black & White Printing
The photographic process is a complex system of countless considerations. Its applications range from the “one-hour photo snapshot” to some of the most beautiful creations of the visual artist. This class is designed for any student who is interested in black & white photography irrespective of their level of achievement.

The Artistic Career: Editing
This class will explore artistic career options, with a focus on editing and curating, both your own work and that of others.

The Personal Essay
This course explores how direct statement of the facts of one’s life can be heightened to communicate a personal experience of our shared world.

Transitioning to the Pro World
In this course, the instructor will discuss each student’s specific goals within the framework of current market conditions in order to suggest what direction students might take creatively to successfully position themselves in a commercial context.

View Camera
This one semester course introduces participants to the workings of a 4 x 5 camera and sheet film as it relates to the studio practice.

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