Digital Imaging Production is an advanced course that continues to develop the ability to capture, color correct, adjust tonal levels and curves and retouch bitmapped images. In this course you will learn how digital cameras and high-end scanners capture images and how to provide optimized files. You will be exposed to professional techniques for making corrections and altering pictures to match a client’s instructions, and using software such as Adobe Photoshop on the Macintosh operating system. This course is a priority for students planning to continue for the Bachelor of Technology degree.
English 3771, Advanced Career Writing, will provide you with the opportunity to improve your ability to write business documents through applied study and critique from the professor and your peers. You will develop the knowledge, skills, and processes necessary to develop common documents under constraints typically found in the workplace. You will research, plan, organize, write, revise, and present documents and oral communications.
In this course, document content and format are stressed, along with audience analysis, problem-solving, and an awareness of ethical issues and the global impact of business communications. The types of documents that you will compose include, but are not limited to, business letters, memos, and short reports for various purposes, and a more lengthy collaborative research report.
This course surveys the history of photography from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present. We will examine the use of photography for aesthetic, documentary, and “scientific” purposes, stylistic shifts in photography related to aesthetic concerns, and varying interpretations of subject matter based on social and cultural concerns at specific moments in history. We will also consider the relationship between photography and the visual arts in general, which culminates with the primacy of photography as a medium by the late twentieth century.
