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College of the Redwoods
CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE
DEPARTMENT AND COURSE NUMBER: ART 36
DEGREE APPLICABLE
NON-DEGREE APPLICABLE
FORMER NUMBER (If previously offered)
COURSE TITLE
Color Photography
LECTURE HOURS: 1.5
LAB HOURS: 4.5
PREREQUISITE: ART 35
UNITS: 3.0
Eligibility for: Engl 150
Math 105
Request for Exception Attached
CO-REQUISITE: NONE
GRADING STANDARD:
Letter Grade Only
TRANSFERABILITY:
CSUS
UC
Articulation with UC requested
Repeatable
Max No. Units 6.0
CR/NC Only
NONE
Grade/CR/NC Option
Maximum Class Size 12
Max No. Enrollments 2
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
Introduction to the theory, aesthetics, and practice of color photography. It encompasses the seeing,
shooting, processing and printing of color slide and negative materials. It emphasizes a development of
both technical and visual skills as well as a practical knowledge of the uses of color in relation to the
range of fine art and career color photography in practice today.
NOTE: Course may be repeated for a total of 6.0 units.
COURSE OUTCOMES/OBJECTIVES: List the primary instructional objectives of the class. Formulate
some of them in terms of specific measurable student accomplishments, e.g., specific knowledge and/or
skills to be attained as a result of completing this course. For degree-applicable courses, include
objectives in the area of “critical thinking.” Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be
able to:
1. Understand and apply the theories underlying color photography.
2. Apply a working knowledge of color films, filters, color lighting, color chemistry and color printing to
the practical and creative control of color photographs,
3. Understand the career and fine art applications of color photography and apply that technical, visual
and aesthetic understanding to the production of a portfolio of color slides and prints.
4. Show a portfolio of color slides and prints that will demonstrate the understanding of technical, visual
and aesthetic principles taught in the class.
5. Better understand the relationship and possible applications of color photography to the artistic,
technical, and career objectives of each student.
6, Master both technical and visual skills necessary to produce a fine color print.
7. Speak knowledgeably about and effectively analyze a wide variety of color images.
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COURSE OUTLINE:
% of Classroom Hours Spent on Each Topic
Class introduction, introduction to assignments, portfolio,
homework, critiques, grading, and materials
Historical and contemporary trends in color photography
Color films, their uses and processing
Color temperature and lighting
Color print papers and color chemistry
Printing techniques and equipment for color negative print processing
Printing techniques and equipment for color slide printing
Basic color theory in relation to the camera, film exposure, the
development and printing of color slides and negatives
Visual color theory - the color theory of light - and its impact on
visual images and the viewer
A survey of the uses of color photography in the fields
of fine art and photography related careers
Oral reports - relating the work of a specific color photographer(s) to
the work a student is doing for his/her portfolio. A technical, visual,
and aesthetic comparison and analysis
Critiques - share and analyze the work of other students for specific
assignments and analyze the development of good technical, visual and
aesthetic images and the underlying ideas in individual images and portfolios
Homework Assignment Review - A discussion of problems and possible
solutions to ideas, technical, visual, and aesthetic questions that were not
universally understood by students on homework assignments
Assignments in color photography - Lecture, presentations,
illustrating, technical and visual problems for solution outside class
The Zone System for Color
Color Presentation and Preservation
Color and the Visual Language of Design
Homework, worksheets, quizzes and exams - in class reviews of
material covered
5%
5%
5%
5%
5%
5%
5%
5%
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15%
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10%
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APPROPRIATE TEXTS AND MATERIALS: (Indicate textbooks that may be required or recommended,
including alternate texts that may be used.)
Text(s)
Title: Exploring Color Photography
Required
Edition: ___
Alternate
Author: Robert Hirsch
Recommended
Publisher: Wm. C. Brown
Date Published: 1989
(Additional required, alternate, or recommended texts should be listed on a separate sheet and attached.)
For degree applicable courses the adopted texts have been certified to be college-level:
Yes. Basis for determination:
is used by two or more four-year colleges or universities (certified by the Division Chair or
Branch Coordinator, or Center Dean)
OR
has been certified by the LAC as being of college level using the Coleman and Dale-Chall
Readability Index Scale.
No. Request for Exception Attached
If no text or a below college level text is used in a degree applicable course must have a minimum of one
response in category 1, 2, or 3. If category 1 is not checked, the department must explain why substantial
writing assignments are an inappropriate basis for at least part of the grade.
1. Substantial writing assignments, including:
essay exam(s)
term or other paper(s)
written homework
reading report(s)
laboratory report(s)
other (specify) _____
If the course is degree applicable, substantial writing assignments in this course are inappropriate
because:
The course is primarily computational in nature.
The course primarily involves skill demonstrations or problem solving.
Other rationale (explain) production of assigned photographs, final portfolio and satisfactory solution
of assigned technical and visual problems
2. Computational or Non-computational problem-solving demonstrations, including:
exam(s)
quizzes
homework problems
laboratory report(s)
field work
other (specify)_homework
assignments to develop specific technical and visual skills
3. Skill demonstrations, including:
class performance(s)
field work
performance exam(s)
other (specify)_presentation of assigned photographs demonstrating solution of assigned technical
and visual problems. Presentation of completed portfolio demonstrating development of visual idea(s)
and technical skills.
4. Objective examinations, including:
multiple choice
completion
true/false
other (specify)
matching items
5. Other (specify) Attendance, individual effort, and participation in critiques and class discussions. Oral
report.
NOTE: A course grade may not be based solely on attendance.
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REQUIRED READING, WRITING, AND OTHER OUTSIDE OF CLASS ASSIGNMENTS:
Over an 18-week presentation of the course, 3 hours per week are required for each unit of credit. ALL
Degree Applicable Credit classes must treat subject matter with a scope and intensity which require the
student to study outside of class. Two hours of independent work done out of class are required for each
hour of lecture. Lab and activity classes must also require some outside of class work. Outside of the
regular class time the students in this class will be doing the following:
Study
Answer questions
Skill practice
Required reading
Problem solving
Written work (essays/compositions/report/analysis/research)
Journal (reaction and evaluation of class, done on a continuing basis throughout the
semester)
Observation of or participation in an activity related to course content (e.g., play, museum,
concert, debate, meeting, etc.)
Field trips
Other (specify) Photo assignments/technical and visual problems, oral report research.
COLLEGE LEVEL CRITICAL THINKING TASKS/ASSIGNMENTS:
Degree applicable courses must include critical thinking tasks/assignments. This section need not be
completed for non-degree applicable courses. Describe how the course requires students to
independently analyze, synthesize, explain, assess, anticipate and/or define problems, formulate and
assess solutions, apply principles to new situations, etc.
1. Photographic Assignments - serves as a way for students to incorporate lecture and textbook
assignment material into the solution of a series of technical, visual, aesthetic problems in the
field. Encourages each student to find solutions that will explicate ideas and images of specific
importance to that student while solving assigned technical, visual or aesthetic problems.
2. Critiques
a) require students to verbally analyze their success or failure in solving the problems set out for
them in photographic assignments.
b) help develop verbal fluency in relation to analysis and solution of problems with technical,
compositional, visual and aesthetic elements of photographic images
c) requires the development of skills in “creative criticism” which involves:
1) defining technical, compositional, visual and aesthetic problems
2) offering valid, useful solutions - in order to avoid “negative” criticism without “positive”
solutions (problem solving)
3. Oral Report - Requires the analysis of specific images to define inherent technical, visual,
compositional, and aesthetic ideas. Also requires the comparison and contrast of these images
with the photographic ideas and images of the student. Develops verbal fluency in analysis of
visual imagery
4. Text Worksheets - Require students to solve photographic problems concerning technical and
visual questions.
5. Final Portfolio
a) Encourages each student to define and develop individual visual ideas and to learn to
maintain a universally high degree of technical, visual, and aesthetic quality throughout a body of
work
b) Requires the students to think in terms beyond the single visual image to the concept of a
“body of work” (portfolio) and how best to wt single images together to communicate coherent
visual ideas.
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REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION
The Curriculum Committee is authorized to determine the appropriateness of entrance skills and
requisites for any given course; to determine whether or not language and/or computational skills at the
associate degree level are essential to success in a given course; to determine what is “college level” in
learning skills, vocabulary, and in the ability to think critically and apply concepts; and to determine on a
case-by-case basis when any departure from the attached guidelines may be justified.
To request an exception, provide the following information:
Art 36
Department and Course No.
Color Photography
Course Title
NATURE OF THE EXCEPTION REQUESTED AND RATIONALE:
REPEATABILITY
Repeatability justified, since course content differs each tine it is offered and skills or proficiencies are
enhanced by supervised repetition and practice within class periods.