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Photography Program in Germany
Students will return from this program with a deeper understanding of art, beauty, architecture, history, culture and photography of Eastern Germany. Visits to companies, galleries and museums as well as cities and sites will expose them to the major changes of the city of Berlin & Eastern Germany have gone through in the past decades: the downfall of the Berlin wall, the DDR and Berlin, becoming Germany’s capital again in the 1990s.

Location(s): Germany
Duration: 14 days

Program Code: DAN Campus: SenecaYork
Duration: 2 Semesters (8 Months) Start Dates: Fall
Start dates are subject to change
Credential Awarded: Ontario College Graduate Certificate

Program Description

This program is designed to introduce students to the concepts of 3D computer-based modeling and animation utilizing the latest in high-end computer workstations. The emphasis of the program is on learning the tools to problem solve, and to create finished portfolio projects using Maya animation software.

Evidence of admission One of the following tests:
04 Economy
11 History
18 Portuguese
Regional Preference Area of influence: Vacancies: 40%
Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Porto, Viana do Castelo, RA Açores, R.
A. Madeira
Other preferential access Courses with preferential access: Vacancies: 30%
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Duration: 6 Semesters: 180 ECTS

Careers:
Technical Education in Local Development and Community Intervention;
Technical Education and Management of Sociocultural Animation;
Monitor Leisure;
Educational Projects Manager and Leisure (with children and young people);
Educator, trainer and mediator for adults;
Technical College of Social Inclusion.

Note the last candidate 2007/2008: 134.2

Aim of the programme

MA Photography and the Land is a thematic award that offers you the opportunity to develop your photographic practice, knowledge and understanding through research and photographic projects exploring issues related to land, landscape and the environment.

Programme highlights

· Staff team with significant international experience in diverse landscape practice
· Southwest location with unique mixture of rural, urban, industrial and leisure landscapes
· Arts faculty energetically developing its inter-disciplinary links
Entry requirements

A good honours degree in photography or a related visual communication subject. Appropriate professional experience may also be considered. An interview, portfolio and written piece of work will be required. IELTS of 6.5 or equivalent.
Duration

1 year full time or two years part time

Postgraduate Admissions
Faculty of Arts

Aim of the programme

MA Photography and the Book is a unique award that offers you the opportunity to develop your photographic practice, knowledge and understanding through the resolution of individual projects where the dominant but not exclusive form of dissemination is a book or bookwork.

It is also intended to provide those with an editorial or curatorial photographic practice with the opportunity to develop and resolve original projects in book forms.

The programme has an ethos of experimentation, creativity, risk-taking, research and authorship which, combined with extended practice, leads to the development of a critical and theoretical understanding of the medium of photography.

Programme highlights

Staff team with extensive international experience of photography and editing, designing and publishing
Full range of new photographic resources in a complex alongside media, design and print resourses
Links with an established Publishing MA

The Scott Building, where you will be based and where these resources are housed, also contains the Faculty’s Printmaking and Letterpress workshops.
Entry requirements

A good honours degree in photography or a related visual communication subject.
Appropriate professional experience may also be considered. An interview, portfolio and written piece of work will be required. IELTS of 6.5 or equivalent.

Duration

1 year full time or 2 years part time

Course Aims:
This short course is suitable for those with an interest in photography. The course will utilise Tipperary Institute’s Multimedia facilities in order to help develop the participant’s visual skills. The course includes progression from traditional to digital photography. Students will be encouraged to take photographs on an ongoing basis throughout the duration of the course as part of the assessment procedure.

Course Outline:
Participants will be introduced to:
• The camera and its controls
• The digital camera versus traditional camera
• Controlling visual elements with Aperture and Shutter settings
• Film – traditional versus digital
• Photoshop – the digital darkroom – finding your way around
• Introduction to Photoshop’s many tools to correct & enhance your pictures
• Processing digital files – different file types
• Sizing pictures – preparing photos for printing, email and the web
• Correcting colour and tonal qualities
• Converting from colour to black & white
• Introduction to working with Layers
• Filters – traditional and digital
• Introducing to scanning

Course Structure:
This course will be offered one evening per week for 10 weeks commencing early October 2008.

Entry Requirements:
There are no formal entry requirements to this course; however, students should have a basic understanding of the computer (e.g. how to turn on / off a p.c. and be able to navigate using a mouse).

Course Fee:
Course fee is €250.

Programme Location:
Tipperary Institute – Thurles and Clonmel.