- PHT 101 - Photography I
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Teaches principles of photography and fundamental camera techniques. Requires outside shooting and lab work. Part I of II.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 102 - Photography II
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Teaches principles of photography and fundamental camera techniques. Requires outside shooting and lab work. Part II of II.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 105 - Basic Photography
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Studies fundamental techniques of the camera and its expressive possibilities.
Lecture 2-4 hours. Laboratory 0-3 hours. Total 3-7 hours per week.
3-4 credits
- PHT 110 - History of Photography
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Surveys important photographers, processes, and historical influences of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 135 - Electronic Darkroom
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Teaches students to create and manipulate digital photographs. Covers masking, color corrections, and merging of illustrations with photographs. Examines the ethical and property-rights issues which are raised in the manipulation of images.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 164 - Introduction to Digital Photography
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Teaches the fundamentals of photography including camera function, composition, and image production as they apply to digital imagery.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 198 - Seminar and Project
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Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.
May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- PHT 201 - Advanced Photography I
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Provides weekly critiques of students' work. Centers on specific problems found in critiques. Includes working procedures and critical skills in looking at photographs. Prerequisite
PHT 102 or equivalent. Part I of II.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 202 - Advanced Photography II
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Provides weekly critiques of students' work. Centers on specific problems found in critiques. Includes working procedures and critical skills in looking at photographs. Prerequisite
PHT 102 or equivalent. Part II of II.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 206 - Large Format Photography
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Discusses 4x5 view camera techniques and controls, and sheet film processing. Demonstrates the image-making advantages of large format photography. Prerequisite
PHT 102 or equivalent.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 211 - Color Photography I
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Introduces theory, materials, and processes of modern color images. Includes additive and subtractive theory, color filtration, and negative and positive printing techniques. Prerequisite PHT or equivalent. Part I of II.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 212 - Color Photography II
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Introduces theory, materials, and processes of modern color images. Includes additive and subtractive theory, color filtration, and negative and positive printing techniques. Prerequisite PHT or equivalent. Part II of II.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 221 - Studio Lighting I
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Examines advanced lighting and camera techniques under controlled studio conditions. Includes view camera use, electronic flash, advanced lighting techniques, color temperature and filtration, and lighting ratios. Requires outside shooting. Prerequisite
PHT 102 or equivalent. Part I of II.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 222 - Studio Lighting II
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Examines advanced lighting and camera techniques under controlled studio conditions. Includes view camera use, electronic flash, advanced lighting techniques, color temperature and filtration, and lighting ratios. Requires outside shooting. Prerequisite
PHT 102 or equivalent. Part II of II.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 227 - Photographic Careers
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Teaches the techniques of small photographic business operations. Includes portfolio preparation and presentation and basic marketing techniques. Covers theory of marketing, costing procedures and problems, legal accounting problems, copyright, and fundamentals of small photographic business operation.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 231 - Photojournalism I
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Introduces equipment, techniques, skills, and concepts of photojournalism. Teaches photography for features, spot news, and photo essays. Emphasizes editing, captioning, and layout May require individual projects. Prerequisite
PHT 102 or equivalent. Part I of II.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 247 - Alternative Photographic Processes
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Explores manipulated imagery including traditional and non- traditional processes such as non-silver and electronic imaging. Uses enlarged film negatives in order to investigate a variety of methods. Prerequisite
PHT 102 or equivalent.
Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 264 - Digital Photography II
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Teaches theory and practice of digital photography. Emphasizes use of digital cameras in studio and on location. Teaches advanced techniques of image editing. Provides training in digital image transmission from remote locations.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 265 - Mass Media into the Twenty-First Century
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Studies the visual influence that film, newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV have exerted in the twentieth century and includes predictions for such media in the next century. Analyzes the relationships television and computers have had on society, and examines the impact of motion pictures, television and the Internet for the future. Considers what ethical and moral considerations must be made by a communications artist working in the twenty-first century.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 270 - Digital Imaging I & II
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Introduces students to the tools and techniques used by professionals in the electronic imaging field. Focuses on current trends within the photographic, prepress and internet industries. Includes image capture, manipulation, and out-put. Exposes students to the hardware and software used by today's creative professionals in a combination of lectures, demonstrations and class projects. Part I of II.
Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits
- PHT 295 - Topics In
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Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.
May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits
- PHT 297 - Cooperative Education
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Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college's cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.
Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-6 credits
