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2015-2016 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 22-3190 Senior Seminar in Art History

    This is the first semester of the two-part Art History capstone sequence. This course examines the disciplinary foundations, historiography, and major issues of art history and explores the various methodological approaches used in the field. Students will focus on developing their skills in critical reading and academic writing. In addition, students will be exposed to the conventions and professional practices of art history, will work on elements of their professional portfolio, and will learn about careers related to art history.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 22-3110 Art Theory Seminar 
  

  • 22-3211 Advanced Drawing Studio

    This course continues to engage students with concepts, techniques and processes related to drawing as a medium and material in contemporary art. Students apply knowledge of representation and compositions to develop thinking and creative expression with varied media.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 22-2211 Drawing Studio 
  

  • 22-3221 Painting II

    This course will continue to explore art historical and contemporary developments in painting techniques, processes, and concepts. Projects will focus on developing individual painting skills and conceptual growth. Emphasis will be on the position and context of painting in the wider spectrum of contemporary art practice.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 22-2220 Painting I 
  

  • 22-3224 Printmaking II

    This course offers students the opportunity to further explore techniques and concepts studied in Contemporary Issues in Printmaking, and to apply these to their own creative projects. Course gives more advanced instruction in a broad range of printmaking media both traditional and innovative, including silkscreen, lithography, intaglio, relief and hybrid forms, and emphasizes research and contextualization as an underpinning for studio practice.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 22-2224 Printmaking I 
  

  • 22-3226 Printmaking III

    Course emphasizes a broad range of techniques, with the opportunity to work at a large scale and with multiple media, including hand-drawn, painted, digital, and photographic matrices. New twists on traditional techniques and non-toxic alternatives will be introduced. Students will be encouraged to work across media and develop a more spontaneous approach to printmaking.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 22-2224 Printmaking I 
  

  • 22-3228 Painting III

    This course will explore painting strategies beyond direct perceptional methods, techniques, and assignments. Students will engage processes and systems such as collage, representation, abstraction, photographic and digital sources and hybrid forms to produce a body of work. Focusing on the experiential, interpretive and linguistic constructions of painting, students will develop their own painting projects, drawing from global art history, contemporary practices, and critical studies. Students will be required to create an archive of their process and studies; and give a presentation of their work, including their own writing influences, and source materials, which will culminate in a final project.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 22-3221 Painting II 
  

  • 22-3234 Installation/Site-Specific Art

    In this studio course, students are challenged to expand their visual and conceptual vocabulary using various time-based media and site-specific approaches to the creation of new work. Classroom/studio activity will promote the creative process in a relationship between the artist’s expression and the designated medium and site.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 45 Credit Hours Complete
  

  • 22-3236 Performance Art

    This course gives students a comprehensive introduction to the history and nature of performance art and develop their ideas for live work. Course covers major Postmodern movements that make particular use of live art–Dada, Futurism, and Fluxus–as well as issues of feminism and multiculturalism that have utilized performance. Students present work for critique throughout the semester, culminating in a group show to be presented in a public forum.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  
  

  • 22-3254J Topics in Studio Art:

    This course will focus on specific topics, themes, and ideas in studio and post studio art. The course will cover different material that might not be included in the permanent course offering or will concentrate on new and experimental approaches to issues in art practice.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    GA
  

  • 22-3255 Body, Space, Image

    This course presents an intensive survey of contemporary performance, site, and installation art from an anthropological point of view.  Specifically, course focuses on artists’ works that were constructed to be experienced live and/or through photographic and video documentation of the work.  Students will be given workshops on sound, digital photography, and video editing. Students will be required to produce and present a performance, site, or installation work of their own for their final project as well as photographic and/or video artworks based on their piece.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 45 Credit Hours Complete
  

  • 22-3264 Junior Fine Art Seminar

    This course engages students in activities conducive to the recognition of their individual voices and concerns as they begin to develop strategies for independent studio practice. Centered around the critique, the course emphasizes critical and constructive analysis of one’s own work, as well as the work of one’s peers. Students are challenged to identify, represent, and defend their own values, to recognize the perspectives of others, and to develop critical skills for engaging in intellectual discourse around a range of work in various media and genres through presentation, discussion, critique, and reflective writing.

    3 Credits
    Requirements 60 Enrolled Hours and Major 222 Only
  
  
  

  • 22-3932 Experimental Photography Graphic Techniques II

    This course is a systematic exploration of advanced alternative photographic processes with digital imaging techniques to include making digital negatives. Course also teaches the use of camera and enlarger to make color separation negatives. Each student develops a self-directed project using one of these mediums.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 22-3931 Experimental Photography/ Graphic Techniques I 
  

  • 22-3988 Internship: Art and Art History

    This course provides advanced level students with an internship opportunity to gain professional experience in an area of concentration or interest while receiving credit towards their degree. Students must be a junior or senior and have a GPA of 3.0. Students work with the Internship Coordinator to design and implement their internship.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Internship Coord. Perm.
  

  • 22-3990 Directed Study: Art & Art History

    Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. They involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.

    1-6 Credits
    Requirements Permission Instr & Chair
  

  • 22-3998 Independent Project: Art and Art History

    Course is an independent project designed by the student, with the approval of a supervising faculty member, to study an area that is not presently available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Permission Instr & Chair
  

  • 22-4100 Professional Practices in Fine Art

    This course addresses professional issues such as portfolio preparation, proposal writing, budget preparation, approaching galleries, establishing alternative spaces, internships, residencies, and grant opportunities. Preparation for graduate school application and exhibition opportunities are central to the class.

    3 Credits
    Requirements 60 Enrolled Hours
  

  • 22-4120 Senior Fine Art Studio I

    Senior Fine Art Studio I provides intensive studio-centered work on a one-to-one basis with the instructor. The tutorial relationship is specifically designed for individual guidance on self-directed projects in order to help students achieve clarity of expression and further their conceptual, material, and process development. The development of sustained, self-directed studio practice is a central aspect of a professional practice. Students will meet both as a group to share goals and progress and individually with the instructor throughout the semester for intensive critique sessions.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 22-3264 Junior Fine Art Seminar  
  

  • 22-4121 Fine Art Thesis Exhibition Workshop I

    In this course, BFA in Fine Arts majors prepare for participation in the BFA Fine Art exhibition. The focus is on the specifics of selecting, preparing and installing work for professional exhibition. Students also prepare professional promotional materials.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 22-3264 Junior Fine Art Seminar  and 22-2259 BFA Review in Fine Art  
  

  • 22-4130 Senior Fine Art Studio II

    Senior Fine Art Studio II provides an intensive studio-based experience and ensures the completion of the student’s final body of work before their participation in the BFA Fine Art exhibition and provides the benefit of concentrated faculty input. The development of sustained, self-directed studio practice is a central aspect of the development of a professional practice. Students will meet both as a group to share goals and progress and individually with the instructor throughout the semester for intensive critique sessions.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 22-4120 Senior Fine Art Studio I  CONCURRENT: 22-3269 Fine Art Thesis Exhibition Workshop II
  

  • 22-4131 Fine Art Thesis Exhibition Workshop II

    In this course, BFA in Fine Arts majors are in the final stages of preparation for the BFA Fine Art exhibition, culminating in the installation of work in exhibiton spaces. This course is a continuation of the Fine Art Thesis Exhibition Workshop I.

    1 Credits
  

  • 22-5131 Fine Art Thesis Exhibition Workshop II

    1 Credits
  

  • 23-1000 Darkroom Dynamics

    This course is designed for students from all disciplines who want to learn about black and white darkroom photography and experiment with image-making processes. Students will work with pinhole and film cameras in response to challenging and open-ended assignments, and then produce prints using a variety of traditional, historic, and experimental darkroom processes. Experimentation is at the core of this course.

    3 Credits
  

  • 23-1011 Lightroom Fundamentals

    This two-day workshop introduces students to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software. It is intended for students who have demonstrated camera proficiency, but have not used Lightroom for the importing, storage, developing, and printing of their photographs. Students will gain proficiency in the particular digital workflow that is the basis of our program and digital labs. Students must pass a portfolio review and a test in order to register for this workshop.

    1 Credits
  

  • 23-1110 Photography for Interior Architecture Majors

    This introductory level photography course introduces upper level Interior Architecture students to the fundamentals of architectural photography. General photographic and visual theory will be addressed, including the urban and architectural landscape, ultimately focusing on specific concerns in exterior and interior photography. Principles of artificial lighting, color theory, and spatial abstraction will be explored through student produced photographs, along with a general grounding in photographic history and criticism.

    3 Credits
  

  • 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I

    This primarily screen-based course introduces the basic visual grammar and critical-thinking skills of photography. Using a digital camera with manual controls and RAW capture, students will learn the craft of making photographs while also being introduced to issues of aesthetic form, historical context and the content or meaning of photographs. Students will learn to question, explore, communicate and evaluate basic photographic concepts that are applicable to many disciplines. Please consult the department website at Columbia College Chicago for updated information about acceptable cameras.

    3 Credits
  

  • 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II

    This course reinforces the basic understanding of camera functions, exposure and digital workflow that were taught in 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I. It introduces the skills necessary to make and analyze high-quality prints and places greater emphasis on color theory. This course reinforces and expands upon critical thinking skills regarding the diversity of contemporary photographic imagery, and helps students to locate their practice within those traditions and innovations. Please consult our website at www.colum.edu/photo for updated information about acceptable cameras.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I 
  

  • 23-1115 Black and White Photography

    This course is an exploration of black and white darkroom photography. Students will learn introductory level camera skills while investigating 35mm film exposure and printing in the black and white darkroom. A range of photographic materials, processes, and techniques will be covered. Aesthetics of analog black and white photography, coupled with historical and contemporary practices are studied through lectures and gallery visits. Please consult the department website at Columbia College Chicago for updated information about acceptable cameras.

    3 Credits
  

  • 23-1116 Color Photography

    This print-based course will offer an introduction to analog color materials, the color darkroom and the aesthetics, technique and theory of color photography. It will review basic camera usage, exposure and metering, and formal strategies for making color photographs. Through a sequence of assignments and a final project this course will reinforce the importance of light as color from vision to print; including negative exposure, darkroom printing, and the way content is shaped by color and light in the final photographic print.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I  or 23-1115 Black and White Photography  
  

  • 23-2100 Color & Light in Photography

    This course builds upon skills learned in previous courses and further explores the technical, conceptual, and aesthetic uses of color photography. It is an advanced, in-depth examination of how color theory and various color strategies can be used in a sophisticated way to formally shape the content of a photograph. This print-based class is open to students working in both analog and digital processes and will culminate in a self-directed project that uses color and light in clear and meaningful ways.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1116 Color Photography  or 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II  
  

  • 23-2110 Advanced Black and White Photography

    Advanced black and white darkroom techniques offer distinctive opportunities to make creative photographs. In this course students will experiment with a variety of analog materials and processes to achieve sophisticated creative and technical controls. Split filter printing, toning, archival processing and other methods will be employed to render desired effects. In the last part of the semester, students will apply these techniques to the printing of photographs in a self-directed project.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1115 Black and White Photography 
  
  

  • 23-2125 View Camera: Advanced

    This course, building upon skills learned in View Camera I, requires that students develop a self-directed, semester-long project exploiting the view camera’s unique abilities in order to further refine skills and expand understanding of large format photography.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2120 View Camera I 
  

  • 23-2201 Digital Imaging I

    Course introduces students to computer tools that manipulate and enhance photographic images. Students learn the skills to correct, retouch and enhance varied input in order to create high-quality digital output utilizing the industry standard for digital image manipulation.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II  
  

  • 23-2220 Film Scanning Workshop

    Two-day workshop course designed for photography students who are interested in learning how to translate analog film into a digital file and then prepare this file for print. High-end scanning workflow and image enhancement techniques in relation to input and output are discussed and demonstrated. Students make both black and white and color prints during this intensive workshop.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  
  

  • 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting

    Building upon skills learned in previous classes, this foundation course introduces awareness of light in the studio and on location. Artificial light sources and hand held light meters are explored. Commercial, Fashion, Fine Art and photojournalism applications are equally emphasized.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II  COREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  
  

  • 23-2310 Advanced Lighting

    Building upon previous skills learned, this course expands the student’s knowledge of controlling artificial and natural light. Knowledge of strobe lighting, mixed lighting, digital capture and professional studio practices are developed. Commercial, Fashion, Fine Art and photojournalism applications are equally emphasized.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting  and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  or 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting  and 23-2202
  

  • 23-2518 Sports Photography Workshop:

    This intensive weekend workshop serves as a general introduction to sports photography as practiced by newspaper, magazine and team staff photographers. Students will acquire a working knowledge of aesthetic and technical considerations involved in producing professional action and feature pictures at sport events. Discussions of equipment selection and examples of game situations will teach professional sports photography techniques. Students will be assigned and credentialed to cover one college, high school, or minor league game.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II  
  
  

  • 23-2655 History of Photography II

    This course examines photography’s central role in both reflecting and shaping the cultural, social, political, economic, and scientific context from 1940 to the present. In addition to examining the medium’s major movements and practitioners within this context, the course will also emphasize the developing history, theory, and criticism of the medium and its relationship to modernism and postmodernism in other media. Students will be introduced to various methods of historical investigation through a balance of lectures, discussions, field trips to view historical photographic objects, primary and secondary source readings, group projects, writing assignments, and/or tests.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2650 History of Photography I 
  
  

  • 23-2717 Photography Studies Abroad: The Netherlands

    This three-to-four week course introduces students to the international practice of photography. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance or paper during the period of travel is required. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    GA
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I 
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 23-2718 Photography Studies Abroad: Southeast Asia

    This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit

    3 Credits Repeatable
    GA
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I 
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 23-2718J Photography Studies Abroad:

    This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit

    3 Credits Repeatable
    GA
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I 
  

  • 23-2719J Photography Studies Abroad:

    This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit

    3 Credits Repeatable
    GA
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I 
  

  • 23-2720J Photography Studies Abroad:

    This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit

    3 Credits Repeatable
    GA
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I 
  

  • 23-2721 Photography Studies Abroad:

    This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit

    3 Credits Repeatable
    GA
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I 
  

  • 23-2721J Photography Studies Abroad:

    This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit

    3 Credits Repeatable
    GA
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I 
  

  • 23-2730 Pinhole Photography

    Course examines pinhole photographic practices from 19th Century aesthetics to contemporary applications. Pinhole camera construction utilizing a variety of materials is explored in an environment of active experimentation.

    3 Credits
  

  • 23-3202 Digital Imaging II

    Building upon skills learned in previous classes, this course expands student’s knowledge using extended digital controls to manipulate and enhance photographic images. Emphasis is placed on specialized image manipulation. The student will create a cohesive final project of professional quality utilizing these new tools supported by critical discussions, readings, and research.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I 
  

  • 23-3203 Topics in Digital Imaging

    Advanced level course examines a specific topic, theme, or idea in contemporary digital photography each semester. The student will create and implement a self-directed, extended digital project aided by theoretical and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II 
  

  • 23-3205 Video for Photographers

    This course will introduce students to video capture using DSLR cameras, and to editing techniques utilizing a variety of software. Concepts and strategies in how to integrate the moving image into a photography practice will be covered. Applications of the moving image within fashion, fine art, commercial and photojournalism / documentary will be explored.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  
  

  • 23-3230 Advanced Retouching and Compositing

    This course introduces students to advanced retouching and compositing techniques and skills used by professionals in many aspects of current photographic practice. Advanced computer tools, theories of image construction and enhancement, and the moral and ethical implications surrounding image manipulation will be addressed in this advanced level class. Students will work on provided image files for weekly assignments that are assessed by review and classroom critique. Students will apply these skills to individual, high-quality final projects.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
  

  • 23-3275 Website Publishing

    This course provides the necessary technical skills to create websites that support the publishing and distribution of photographs and portfolios on the Internet. Students will learn website construction, image optimization, information architecture, design principles and produce photography-based websites that communicate effectively and have high visual appeal.

    3 Credits
    COREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I 
  

  • 23-3276 Web Presence

    Building on the technical language learned in Website Publishing, students will learn advanced, inventive and unique ways to use the Internet to further their own artistic exploration. In doing so, students will also learn how to bring audiences and viewers to their work. Through the creation of different types of sites, students will explore the web as portfolio, an artistic space, and a site of commerce and how social media can influence all of these viewing spaces.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3275 Website Publishing 
  

  • 23-3300 Commercial Photography

    In this advanced level studio course students examine photographic illustration for commercial applications. Professional studio practices are analyzed and applied. Advanced applications of medium and large format cameras and digital capture will be explored within a studio context.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
  

  • 23-3400 Commercial Photographer/Art Director

    Advanced level course is designed to simulate the real-world assignment pairing of art directors and photographers. Art and Design and Photography students work in creative teams to collaborate in the production of real world projects that include advertisements, catalogues, and promotional pieces. This course, team-taught by Art and Design and Photography professors, will also examine the effect of advertising on consumer culture.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
  

  • 23-3405 Fashion I: Styling

    Course explores fashion photography in the studio and on location. Building upon the previous skills learned in Digital Imaging I and II, emphasis will be placed on digital capture and workflow. Lighting, styling, hair, make-up, and digital beauty retouching will be addressed to simulate professional experiences. Historical and contemporary fashion photographers will be discussed.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
  

  • 23-3410 Fashion II: Collaboration

    Course establishes creative collaborations by uniting fashion photography students with fashion design and fashion merchandising students. Teams work on projects during the semester that simulate ‘real-world’ fashion assignments and educate one another about practices in their field. Course emphasizes analysis of visual problems and pertinent business practices in fashion photography. Creative processes, visualization of solutions, and client presentations are addressed.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3405 Fashion I: Styling  
  

  • 23-3415 Layout to Finish

    Advanced level course builds upon skills learned in previous courses, focusing on the completion of a professionally presented cohesive portfolio. Course covers business practices relevant to production of advertising jobs, running a studio, and alternative career choices within the professional industry.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
  

  • 23-3418 Special Topics in Commercial Photography:

    This course examines a specific issue related to contemporary topics and trends relevant to commercial photographic practice. Over the course of the semester, students will analyze the topic from a practical, theoretical, and visual perspective. Students will create and implement a self-directed, semester-long project aided by practical examples and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques. Topics will rotate allowing students to repeat the course to examine a different specific issue.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II 
  

  • 23-3418J Special Topics in Commercial Photography:

    This course examines a specific issue related to contemporary topics and trends relevant to commercial photographic practice. Students will analyze the topic from a practical, theoretical, and visual perspective. Students will create and implement a self-directed, project aided by practical examples and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques. Topics will change each time offered, allowing students to repeat the course to examine a different specific issue.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II 
  

  • 23-3430 Special Topics in Fashion Photography:

    This course examines a specific issue related to contemporary topics and trends relevant to fashion photographic practice. Over the course of the semester, students will analyze the topic from a practical, theoretical, and visual perspective. Students will create and implement a self-directed, semester-long project aided by practical examples and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques. Topics will rotate allowing students to repeat the course to examine a different specific issue.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II  
  

  • 23-3430J Special Topics in Fashion Photography:

    This course examines a specific issue related to contemporary topics and trends relevant to fashion photographic practice. Over the course of the semester, students will analyze the topic from a practical, theoretical, and visual perspective. Students will create and implement a self-directed, semester-long project aided by practical examples and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques. Topics will rotate allowing students to repeat the course to examine a different specific issue.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II
    Requirements Not New Freshman and Not New Transfer Stu.
  

  • 23-3460 Performance Photography

    Hands on course teaches students techniques for photographing live performance through collaborative participation in student productions mounted in the Theater, Music, and Dance departments of Columbia College Chicago. Skills are taught through collaborative procedures reflecting real world practice. Production of media and promotional materials is also addressed.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting  and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I 
  

  • 23-3480 Professional Topics: Styling

    Advanced level, intensive, professional workshop provides students with an opportunity to collaborate with professional food and prop stylists and an instructor to execute from a layout, a finished high quality advertisement. Day 1: Students collaborate with a food stylist and take a field trip with a prop stylist to a professional prop house. Day 2: Students work on one shot with outside professionals. A finished high quality professionally presented print will be critiqued in a brief third meeting.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
  

  • 23-3485 Professional Topics: The Nude

    Workshop course is designed to acquaint the student with the nude as an art form. Students examine the human form through one-on-one photo shoots in a studio setting. Special emphasis will be placed on the collaborative nature of the process of working with male and female professional models.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting 
  

  • 23-3488 Internship: Photography

    Course provides advanced level students with an internship opportunity to gain professional experience in an area of concentration or interest while receiving credit towards their degree. Students must be a junior or senior and have a GPA of 3.0. Permission of the Internship Coordinator and participation in a portfolio review is required before a student can apply for an internship. Students work with the Internship Coordinator to design and implement their internship.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 3.0 GPA required and 60 Enrolled Hours and Internship Coor/Chairper
  

  • 23-3490 Professional Topics: Food Photography

    Advanced level, intensive, professional workshop offers students an opportunity to collaborate with professional food and prop stylists and an instructor to execute from a layout, a finished high quality advertisement featuring food. Day 1: Students collaborate with a food stylist and take a field trip with a prop stylist to a professional prop house. Day 2: Students work on one shot with outside professionals. A finished high quality professionally presented print will be critiqued in a brief third meeting.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
  

  • 23-3495 Professional Studio

    Advanced level, intensive studio-based course is designed for students seeking to further develop their technical and conceptual skills required for the professional fine art or commercial photographer. Students work on a semester long cohesive project under the guidance of an instructor, meeting every other week for eight hour shooting sessions. Outside of class, students are expected to develop concepts and gather materials for scheduled studio/shooting days.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
  

  • 23-3500 Introduction to Photojournalism

    This is a hands-on class focusing on the technical, aesthetic, journalistic and interpersonal skills needed to produce images that tell stories for newspapers, magazines, books and the Internet. Weekly assignments will introduce students to specific areas of photojournalism. Students may be assigned to cover protests and demonstrations, political campaigns, live performances, press conferences, sporting events as well as feature stories that explore contemporary social issues. Journalistic ethics will be the subject of ongoing discussions throughout the semester, as will applicable business practices for both free-lance and staff photojournalists.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting  or 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting  and 23-2202
  

  • 23-3505 Multimedia Photo Essay

    In this project-based class students will be introduced to the basic techniques necessary for the production of narrative picture stories for multimedia online presentations. We will analyze classic photo essays and examine how the techniques used in creating them - opening pictures, transitions, point pictures, closers, expressive camera angles and lighting - apply to modern multi-media applications. Linear and thematic organization of photo essays will be discussed. Students will research, plan, photograph and edit stories incorporating audio, video and still pictures.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting  and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  or 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting  and 23-2202
  

  • 23-3518 Special Topics in Photojournalism:

    Each semester this class will focus on a special topic related to recent trends in photojournalistic practice and/or a focused exploration of a specific issue in the news. Over the course of the semester we will analyze the topic from a practical, ethical, and visual perspective, with emphasis on its ramifications for the field of photojournalism. Class time will involve some short lectures and discussions of readings about our topic but will primarily consist of critiques of student work. Students may repeat the course with different Special Topics.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II 
  

  • 23-3518J Special Topics in Photojournalism:

    This class will focus on a special topic related to recent trends in photojournalistic practice and/or a focused exploration of a specific issue in the news. The class will analyze the topic from a practical, ethical, and visual perspective, with emphasis on its ramifications for the field of photojournalism. Class time will involve some short lectures and discussions of readings about the topic and critiques of student work. Students may repeat the course with different Special Topics.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II 
  

  • 23-3520 Documentary Methods

    Course introduces students to a wide range of approaches and styles of documentary photography. Students will conceive, develop, and pursue documentary photographic projects and present the work in a manner consistent with the meaning and point of view of the work.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1120 and 23-1121 or 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II 
  
  
  

  • 23-3718 Special Topics in Fine Art Photography:

    This course examines a specific issue related to contemporary topics and trends relevant to fine art photographic practice. Over the course of the semester, students will analyze the topic from a practical, theoretical, and visual perspective. Students will create and implement a self-directed, semester-long project aided by theoretical and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques. Topics will rotate allowing students to repeat the course and examine a different specific issue.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II 
  

  • 23-3718J Special Topics in Fine Art Photography:

    This course examines a specific issue related to contemporary topics and trends relevant to fine art photographic practice. Over the course of the semester, students will analyze the topic from a practical, theoretical, and visual perspective. Students will create and implement a self-directed, project aided by theoretical and critical readings, class discussions, and critiques. Topics will rotate allowing students to repeat the course and examine a different specific issue.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II 
  

  • 23-3730 Visual Books

    Advanced level course provides photography students with an opportunity for in-depth study of the photographic book. The history, production, and use of the book format as an artistic medium and repository for photographic images is examined. The structure of the book is addressed, with attention to issues of narrative, visual sequencing, pacing, and movement. Students will produce professional quality photographic books that may utilize a variety of forms and materials with emphasis on the unity of form and content.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I 
  

  • 23-3733 Theory & Criticism: Contemporary Photography

    This seminar will examine and interrogate the multiple roles that contemporary photography plays within our unique cultural moment. Students will view original works, read contemporary criticism and engage in probing discussion and original writing. Upon completion of this course, students will have the capacity to more confidently engage the work they make within the broader discourse of art. Students who do not meet the pre-reqs may contact the instructor to discuss possible pre-req equivalency.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2655 History of Photography II 
  
  

  • 23-3740 The Constructed Image

    In this advanced, fine art based course, students will explore deliberate picture-making strategies to create images based on personal vision while examining the reasons for employing these strategies. Students will create the subject matter of their photographs, working from the understanding that the process starts with previsualization and moves to planning and execution. Students will be introduced to a multitude of ways of manufacturing photographic subject matter and how these images contribute to and rely on contemporary photographic culture.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting  and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I 
  

  • 23-3780 Special Subjects:

    Two-day workshop course introduces students to a variety of compact strobe equipment and techniques for shooting on location. Students utilize their own equipment as well as equipment provided by the workshop. Technical strategies explored include shooting in the studio, on location, interior as well as exterior, along with lighting demonstrations and discussions about technique. A brief third meeting will be arranged to critique results from the workshop.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting 
  

  • 23-3798 Independent Project: Photography

    Course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Permission Instr & Chair
  

  • 23-3799 Directed Studies: Photography

    1-3 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 23-3810 Portfolio Development

    Advanced level course is designed for seniors to assist them in developing skills to prepare for entering the commercial job market. Development, production, and assembly of a high-quality portfolio and self-promotional materials are fundamental to the class. A component of this class is working in close collaboration with the Portfolio Center.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting  and 23-3202 Digital Imaging II 
    Requirements 75 Completed Hours
  

  • 23-3900 Senior Thesis

    BFA capstone course requires that students develop and shape a self-generated, long-term photography project, working in a more independent manner. Students increase their expertise in seeing, editing, and problem solving. Work is based on personal concerns and values, and students improve their ability to speak and write articulately about their work and the work of others. Career strategies, professional challenges, and relationship to contemporary art practices are a vital component of this course. A written research paper related to their project is required. Students engage with professional practitioners through the Department’s Lectures in Photography series.

    3 Credits
    WI
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3910 Photography Seminar 
    Requirements BFA Degree and Major 230 Only
  

  • 23-3910 Photography Seminar

    This course teaches students how to develop and shape a rigorous self-directed, long-term photography project relevant to their photographic, interests, and professional ambitions. This course is designed to encourage students to work in a more independent manner and increase their expertise in seeing, editing and problem solving. Students will also engage in a long-term research project that relates to and informs their photographic work. Students learn to create work based on personal concerns and values as well as increase their capacity to speak and write articulately about their work. Students will also engage with professional practitioners in the field through lectures, writings, and in-class visiting lecturers to develop career strategies, discuss professional challenges, and place themselves in relation to contemporary photography practices. This is the capstone course for the BA in Photography.

    3 Credits
    WI
    PREREQUISITES: 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 23-2310 Advanced Lighting 
    Requirements 90 Enrolled Hours
  

  • 23-4210 Body, Space and Image

    Course presents an intensive survey of contemporary performance, site, and installation art from an anthropological point of view. Specifically, the course focuses on artist’s work that is constructed to be experienced live and/or through photographic and video documentation of the work. Students will be given workshops on sound, digital photography, and video editing. Students will be required to produce and present a performance, site, or installation work of their own for their final project as well as photographic and/or video artworks based on their piece.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 22-1102 Art History II: Renaissance to Modern  and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  or 22-1105 Introduction to Visual Culture  and 23-2201 Digital Imaging I 
  

  • 23-4450 Architectural Photography

    This course explores the wide range of photographic responses to the man-made environment, from classical documentation to the search from personal and formal documentation to the search for personal and formal images. Course introduces the use of view camera. Refined Digital Camera techniques are also addressed. Discussion of work, and the development of individual projects is emphasized.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting 
  

  • 23-4525 The Documentary Book

    Course, building upon skills learned in Documentary I, continues to broaden and deepen an understanding of the various approaches to documentary photography. Course offers an in depth understanding of the various traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic documentary book. Using desktop publishing software, the class is designed to help the student produce a book of his or her long-term documentary project.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  and 23-3520 Documentary Methods 
  

  • 23-4705 History of Photography Seminar:

    This course focuses each semester on a special topic related to recent trends in photographic and/or critical histories and theories of photography. Over the course of the semester students will analyze this topic’s ideological, representational, technological, historical, and aesthetic ramifications for photography. Class time will involve some short lectures and exhibition viewings but will mostly consist of discussions of reading and looking assignments. Course expectations and requirements will be adjusted accordingly for undergraduates and graduates. Students who do not meet the pre-reqs may contact the instructor to discuss possible pre-req equivalency.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2655 History of Photography II 
  

  • 23-4720 Image and Text

    Advanced level course provides an in-depth exploration of the conceptual and practical issues surrounding photographic works that use image and text as a significant strategy in their communication. A wide range of image and text examples in contemporary practice will be examined. Students complete assignments combining images and text.

    3 Credits
    WI
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting  and 23-3202 Digital Imaging II  and 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II 
  

  • 23-4750 The Portrait

    Advanced course provides an in-depth exploration of the conceptual and practical issues surrounding the photographic portrait. A wide range of social and political issues of portraiture within a historical and contemporary context will be examined and applied.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2201 Digital Imaging I  and 23-2300 Introduction to Lighting 
  

  • 23-4777LDM Photographing History

    This four-week photography course is offered through the Florence Summer Program. Undergraduate and graduate students will explore contemporary life within a centuries-old urban environment and examine the influences of Italian Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture on western visual culture. Students will be encouraged to incorporate or address the legacy of Florentine traditions and styles of architecture, science and art in their own photographic image making. Students’ work may incorporate techniques as varied as documentary methods or constructed imagery.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    GA
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  

  • 23-4780 Advanced Special Topics I:

    This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting  and 23-3202 Digital Imaging II 
  

  • 23-4780J Advanced Special Topics I:

    This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting  and 23-3202 Digital Imaging II 
 

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