PHO2031 SPTP:Photographs, Semiotics, Sequence

In this studio art course, students will explore how photography is a language. Through synchronous and asynchronous discussion and critique of assigned readings, artist examples, and photographic projects students will examine and apply how the making of a photograph and its use is a sequence of other photographs creates a vocabulary that conveys meaning. Course content will include: basic camera techinical functions and their effects on photgraphic imagery; use of Adobe software to edit, transmit, and publish photographs; the understanding and application of ideas of semiotics to visual information. For the duration of this course students will be required to have: continual access to a camera of any kind (including cell phone cameras), access to a PC or Macintosh that can run Adobe software; a subscription to Adobe products used for editing and publishing. Credits: 3