PLEASE NOTE: These are samples only. Course offerings are subject to
change and not all courses are offered each term or each year. Be sure
to check the online course catalog and the current class schedule for details about pre-requisites, terms offered, class fees, etc.).
Body, Space and Image*
This 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 works that were constructed to be experienced through
photographic and video documentation. Students will be given workshops
on sound, digital photography, and video editing. Course expectations
and requirements will be adjusted accordingly for undergraduates and
graduates.
23-5210, 3 credits
History of Photography Seminar
Each semester the History of
Photography Seminar will focus on a special topic related to recent
trends in photographic and/or critical histories and theories of
photography. Over the course of the semester we 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.
23-5705, 3 credits
Photographing History/ Florence Photographic Workshop
This
course offers an opportunity for Photography students to work in a
totally different environment and gives them exposure to a global and
historical context not available to them in Chicago. It demands that
students negotiate a set of foreign perspectives and to reconcile the
often conflicting issues between Renaissance Humanism and contemporary
touristic consumerism.
23-5777, 3 credits
Digital Imaging*
This
course introduces the photographer to computer tools that manipulate
and enhance photographic images. These tools allow students to input
B&W and color photographs, negatives and positives, graphics and
video into Photoshop, the industry standard for digital manipulation.
Photoshop allows students to retouch and enhance these varied inputs in
order to create high quality digital outputs. Output devices include
film recorders, inkjet and sublimation printers. Assignments and the
final project are designed to help master basic techniques of image
editing in order to expand the photographer's horizons.
23-6200, 3 credits
Contemporary Painting & Sculpture*
A
seminar/practicum style course that will survey the major concepts and
methods of 20th Century art theory and criticism from the early
formalism of Roger Fry and Clive Bell to the mid-century late Modernist
theories of Clement Greenberg as well as other art-historical points of
view such as stylistic analysis, iconography, structuralism and
semiotics, and the social history of art. The more contemporary critical
positions of postmodernism will also be discussed. These will include
poststructuralist attitudes and responses to late 20th Century art:
deconstructionalist, feminist, neo-Marxist, and psychoanalytic critical
methodologies. The course will cover a broad area of visual production
that includes traditional fine art (painting/sculpture), as well as
photography, performance/installation, video, and even areas of "pop"
culture, i.e. advertisements, rock videos, commercial television and
film, etc.
23-6650, 3 credits
Issues in the History of Photography
This
interpretive analysis of significant impulses in photography is
structured as a discussion-oriented seminar. Using the most significant
writings by photographers and photo-historians, debates over the
artistic, documentary, scientific, and commercial capabilities and
potentialities of photography will be studied within their relevant
social, cultural, and political context.
23-6655, 3 credits
Introduction to Critical Thinking: Photography*
The
purpose of this course is to prepare first semester graduate students
for the analytical and creative thinking and writing that are a part of
the contemporary photographic art world. Students are introduced to
graduate level research methods and become acquainted with cultural
theories that currently influence the study of photography. Readings
rooted in semiotics, Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction,
psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-colonialism address how we understand
our particular field of study and our culture. This course stresses the
critical skills needed to think and write effectively, with the
immediate purpose of preparing students for the papers that will be
produced in other graduate level courses and for the Master's thesis.
23-6660, 3 credits
*Prerequisite Required