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College of the Redwoods
CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE
DEPARTMENT AND COURSE NUMBER: ART 37
FORMER NUMBER (If previously offered)
DEGREE APPLICABLE
NON-DEGREE APPLICABLE
COURSE TITLE Experimental Photography
LECTURE HOURS: 1.5 LAB HOURS: 4.5
PREREQUISITE: ART-35 or equivalent
CO-REQUISITE: NONE
UNITS: 3.0
Eligibility for: Engl 150 Math 105
Request for Exception Attached
GRADING STANDARD: Letter Grade Only CR/NC Only Grade/CR/NC Option
TRANSFERABILITY: CSUS
Articulation with UC requested
UC NONE Maximum Class Size 20
Repeatable Max No. Units 6.0
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
Max No. Enrollments 2
A survey of creative and non-traditional photographic techniques. Students will experiment with light sensitive materials, and photo-printmaking processes in order to expand their understanding of materials and techniques. Emphasis will be placed on experimentation, the exploration of the possibilities of completion of experimental photographs using drawings, paintings, and other two- and three-dimensional art processes.
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 use a series of non-traditional and experimental photographic materials and processes.
2. Understand the relationship between experimental photographic processes and how best to use each to produce a series of images that demonstrate specific visual concerns (ideas) most important to each student.
3. Know the general history of each experimental process and how each process was used historically.
4. Show a portfolio of completed experimental photographs that graphically demonstrate a knowledge and understand of #1, #2, and #3.
5. Better verbalize the ideas and concepts embodies in the portfolio.
6. Better understand what visual ideas are important to each student as a visual image maker, and how best to use selected experimental photographic techniques to explore, expand, and share ideas with society.

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COURSE OUTLINE: % of Classroom Hours Spent on Each Topic
Introduction and explanation of class, processes, assignments,
critiques, exams, and grading
Photo-Collage and Montage, Photo Xerography processes
Enlarged Negatives and Positives
Kodalith and litho film
Fine grain positive film
Grain enlargement and reticulation techniques
Image registration techniques
Manipulation of enlarged positives and negatives
5%
5%
20%
Tone-line techniques and posterization
Color separation techniques
Litho negative and hand colored positive imagery
Handmade Photographic Papers
Blue print
Brown print and Kallitype
Gum print
Photo emulsion
Kwik print
Platinum and Palladium printing
Choosing a printing paper
Sizing paper
Coating techniques
Contact printing techniques
Safety standards for photo-paper making techniques
Processing and preservation of imagery
20%
Preservation and Presentation of Experimental Imagery
Photo Printmaking Techniques
Photo-Xerography
Photo-Xerox transfer techniques
Magazine transfer techniques
Photo-lithography
Photo-silkscreen
Photo-etching
How to combine photo printmaking techniques
Safety procedures in photo printmaking
Multi-Media combinations in experimental photography
Combining experimental photographic processes
Combining experimental photo process with 2 dimensional and
3 dimensional art techniques
Historical and Contemporary uses of experimental photographic
techniques in fine and applied art
20%
20%
5%
5%

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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: The Keepers of Light
Edition :_____
Author: William Crawford
Publisher: Morgan and Morgan Date Published: 1979
Required
Alternate
Recommended
(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) laboratory report(s)
written homework reading 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 visual images and completion of visual assignments demonstrates satisfactory solution of technical and visual problems
2. Computational or Non-computational problem-solving demonstrations, including:
exam(s) quizzes homework problems
laboratory report(s) imagery required for each critique
3. Skill demonstrations, including:
field work other (specify)_assigned
class performance(s) field work performance exam(s)
other (specify)_completion of visual and technical assignments and completion of final portfolio in class critiques
4. Objective examinations, including:
multiple choice
completion
true/false
other (specify)
matching items
5. Other (specify) required imagery demonstrating knowledge and understanding of each experimental process – graded at each critique. Final portfolio demonstrating understanding of processes and their application to solution of specific technical, visual and compositional problems
NOTE: A course grade may not be based solely on attendance.

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REQUIRED READING, WRITING, AND OTHER OUTSIDE OF CLASS ASSIGNMENTS:
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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) Library research/significant visual imagery, photographic assignments outside of class, work on process assignments
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. Photography 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) r equires the students to think in texts beyond the single visual image to the concept of a “body of work” (portfolio) and how best to put 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 7
Department and Course No.
Experimental Photography
Course Title
NATURE OF THE EXCEPTION REQUESTED AND RATIONALE: REPEATABILITY
Repeatability justified, since course content differs each time it is offered and skills or proficiencies are enhanced by supervised repetition and practice within class periods.