2016-17 Spring

(HART 1012)

1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English

An introduction to the art and expression of photography through brief lectures, hands-on activities and field trips. In this course, students will learn about the history and development of photography, photographers who have helped shape our vision of the world and the great photographs they have made, basic photographic vocabularies, perspectives, concepts, theories and techniques. Students will also experience using photography as an expressive medium to communicate their feelings or attitude of things around them. Upon the completion of this course, students will have basic photographic techniques and a deep understanding of how photography communicates with its audience, such that they will be in a better position to communicate visually with others.

Remarks

1. Class schedule 
Lessons in this course may last for 2 hours or 3 hours depending on the course content. Please refer to the Course Topics below for details. 

2. Camera Requirement
Students need to bring a camera to class, which need not to be a professional one, but it should be equipped with either:

• aperture priority setting (e.g. A/ Av mode) ; OR
• manual setting (M mode)