Notes regarding credits...

Introduction to Photography and the Photography Lab are worth 2 credits each for a total of 4 credits or 60 total hours. These courses will complete 2 of the 4 total class choices.

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

PHOT 101 Introduction to Photography (must take concurrently with 102) (2 credits)
This is a theoretical/practical course that will introduce the fundamental theories and
basic processes of the photographic camera Reflex of 35mm and the specifications
of its use, the different types of film negatives in black and white their characteristics
and potentials for their application etc. This course looks at the hierarchy of the
significance of light and its connection with nature, distribution, and relation with the
formation of visual images and photographs, these with the existent relations
between time of exposure and lighting.

PHOT 102 Photography Laboratory I (must take concurrently with 101) (2 credits)
This course deals with the basic processes of the laboratory, and the knowledge of
the variables for the use of materials of service: equipment and materials for
developing black and white photography, the film (handle, density, grain), the paper
(XXXXX, fixed grain, variable contrast), chemicals, techniques to control the contrast
(filters, plate restrictions, intensifiers), techniques to improve the zones of photography
(stands, masks, filters), etc.