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Digital Photography: 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 uses practical training in media production techniques as the pathway to a theoretical understanding of media's power to shape meaning and identity. Students work hands-on in the Digital Arts Laboratory and Studio as they collaborate with fellow students and the community. The course interweaves fundamental concepts of critical media literacy with a basic introduction to narrative media production. The course culminates in a collaboration to produce short documentaries. Course content is geared for students of any level of production experience.

What is film? What should films do? And how do films affect, construct, and reflect us and the world we live in? This course will introduce you to a range of theoretical debates in film studies that grapple with such questions. Topics will focus on the medium of film and its recent transformations, methods of close analysis, cinema as a sociocultural and industrial institution, and the role that identity and representation play in the experience and meaning of film. Across such topics, we will examine central theoretical camps such as narrative theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, diasporic film theory, and ideology critique. Screenings will include works from a variety of historical, national, and generic contexts.