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This course explores the conceptual and practical principles of digital photography, photo history, the elements and principles of design, and an introduction to the camera functions. Students learn through presentation and demonstrations, reading and discussion, project-based assignments that merge form and content, critique and self-reflection. Discussion topics focus on aesthetic and ethical issues of the medium. Adobe Photoshop is used to explore creative and experimental possibilities for editing photographs and constructing images. Introduction to input/output peripherals includes digital cameras, scanners, and ink-jet printers.

This is a continuation of work begun in ART-158, dealing with conceptual and technical problems of increased complexity to explore creative strategies and genre. The course emphasizes the development of the student's personal vision through class projects as well as individual self-directed experimentation. 

This course will prepare students in the professional practices essential to their creative disciplines. This includes documentation, writing artist and exhibition statements, building resumes and applications, career exploration, grant writing, soliciting professional development opportunities, and preparing a portfolio and/or original research project. This course culminates in the development of an exhibition and/or public-facing presentation. 

Through readings, screenings, discussion, writing, and hands-on production, students engage the cultural, political, and historical consequences of a mediated world from the individual scale (e.g. identity formation) to the societal (e.g. politics, economics). This course explains the various ways that mediated communication shapes, and is shaped by, the people and systems who produce and consume it. Students learn to navigate the mediated landscape in active, rather than passive, ways.