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2021-2022 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
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ART 101 - Photography I


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C1
Introduction to the processes, principles, and tools of photography and its role in personal, cultural, and fine art production. Topics include the development of technical, aesthetic, creative and imaginative skills while exploring photography as art, media, and cultural artifact.

Equivalent Quarter Course: ART 2630.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C1 - Lower Division Arts
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. Apply the elements and principles of design in finished photographs;
  2. Create a portfolio of work demonstrating formal, conceptual, and technical development;
  3. Produce photographs skillfully utilizing photographic tools, materials, and processes, including camera controls, image exposure, image processing, printing, and presentation;
  4. Examine and describe historical and contemporary trends, language, aesthetics and emerging media in photography;
  5. Analyze and describe the role of photography in contemporary culture and media;
  6. Safely handle and maintain photographic equipment and materials;
  7. Evaluate and critique photographic images utilizing relevant terminology and concepts.


C1. Arts Learning Outcomes
  1. Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
  2. respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
  3. in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.



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