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Nature of course request C01948 :

Title change		Description change		Change credit hours
Undergraduate

From:
Course Prefix & Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
A 260	Basic Photography I	3 -
To:
Course Prefix & Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
A 260	Basic Photography	4 -

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY

Current Course Description: Introduction to photography. The course covers the aesthetics of composition and visual communications as well as techniques for shooting photos, digital image control, and making photographic prints. Prerequisite: A115

New Course Description: This course approaches photography as a universal language of contemporary visual culture as well as an artistic medium. Introduces digital camera techniques, photographic composition, digital photo editing, image sequences, and digital color printing processes. Addresses key topics in current and historical photographic practices. Prerequisite: A115

Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course change proposal is part of a larger reorganization process to shift all studio art courses from 3 credits to 4 credits. This change will enable students to complete the program efficiently in a four-year degree plan. As a result, the reduced course load will allow students to invest more time per course and increase the potential for greater progress in each subject. This change will also ease the department¿s scheduling grid, and permit increased student access to studio equipment and workspace as students prepare artwork between class sessions. This change in credits will align our program with art programs in both the 4-year universities and 2-year community colleges in Oregon. Students transferring from quarter and/or semester academic programs will typically experience more accurate credit equivalencies with WOU art courses under this proposed system. To justify the change, students in A 260 will be required to complete more projects and exercises. This includes a major assignment focused on the creation of image sequences. An increase in topical reading assignments will further emphasize critical thinking alongside formal and technical concerns. Conceptual dimensions of photography, particularly the explosive proliferation of digital photographs in contemporary visual culture, will be discussed at length in connection with readings, with discussion participation factored into grades.

Students/Program affected: This change will affect any student enrolling in studio art courses offered by the Art Department. It will particularly affect any student seeking a BA, BS, or BFA degree or minor offered by the Art Department, with the exception of art history.

Approval Queue C01948

Attached Files:

A260_CC_Change_Attachment.pdf

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