21 courses with the subject PH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PH 204Through the Lens: Seeing and Making3
This course is a creative exploration of the diverse range of lens-based imaging tools, media, and materials, including analog still, digital still, and time-based visual imaging systems. Technical and conceptual skill development provides a fundamental framework for making photographs. Issues related to camera vision, representation and picture interpretation are examined. Image presentation options are also examined and employed as a means to escort the viewer through the student’s work, ideas, thoughts, and expressions. Conceptual and aesthetic considerations are introduced as part of a broader foundation for critically analyzing one’s work and the work of others. Fulfills: Through the Lens Elective Option (Photo/Video/Film students) or Photo/Film/Video Elective Option (Graphic Design students) or Studio Elective
This course is designed to help students acknowledge and expand their own intellectual and aesthetic approaches to lens-based image thinking, seeing, and making. Assignments are organized to give students an opportunity to explore and experiment with different tools, materials, and processes while developing a critical understanding of their ideas in the creation of new work. Students are encouraged to examine innovative approaches and strategies for the organization and presentation of images used to create the context in which their work is encountered. Fulfills: Through the Lens Elective Option (Photo/Video/Film students) or Photo/Film/Video Elective Option (Graphic Design students) or Studio Elective
This course is an introduction to Super- 8 and 16mm film making through hands-on experience with the photochemical process. The course covers the skills required to produce non-sync films (that do not have sound recorded at the same time) from concept through completion. The course covers: basic photographic skills, working with Super- 8 and 16mm film cameras, choosing film stocks, film developing, and project planning. This class also covers lighting, working with a film laboratory, analyzing footage, film logging and editing, digital conversion and non- linear editing. Students will plan, shoot, develop and edit short non-sync films outside of class for in-class viewing and critique. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or Studio Elective
This course is an introduction to the theories and practice of audio and video media production. Students explore the fundamental tools for capturing and recording audio and video content and investigate the structural components and creative elements of nonlinear editing, sound and video effects, and different forms of presentation. Students will develop a working vocabulary and understanding of audio and video media in the context of their own creative practice. (last offered fall 2025) Fulfills: Video Projects I Requirement (Photo/Video/Film students) or Photo/Film/Video Elective Option (Graphic Design students) or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or Studio Elective Page 76 of 91
PH 245Beyond the Lens: Re-framing Photography in the Age of AI3
Generative AI isn’t just reshaping photography—it’s redefining how we think about and create images. This course explores the intersection of traditional photographic techniques and AI-driven tools, opening new creative possibilities. Through hands-on experimentation, students will generate and refine AI-assisted photographs while critically examining the implications of these technologies. Beyond technical skills, the course investigates the ethical, philosophical, and aesthetic questions surrounding AI in creative fields, challenging ideas of authenticity, originality, and artistic intent. Over the course of the semester, students will create a body of work that blends AI- generated and traditional photographic methods, challenging and expanding the limits of photography in the age of machine learning. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or Studio Elective
This class concentrates on the viewing and production of time-based media work. Emphasis is placed on the exploration and examination of the visual language and media components of video and film-based works that are common to the visual arts. Students from a variety of concentrations can explore projects about the camera, sound, composition, lighting, time, and space. Students work with analog or digital images, either still or in motion. Projects are open-ended, giving the students an opportunity to address a range of social, political, and aesthetic practices. Traditional and non-traditional narrative structures are also examined as a means to organize and present content. (last offered fall 2025) Fulfills: Video Projects II Requirement (Photo/Video/Film students) or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or Studio Elective
PH 255Wait! Let Me Arrange the World For You: Time, Narrative, and the Moving Image3
What happens when time is no longer linear? How can time be stretched, fractured or looped to reshape perception, disrupt narrative, and reimagine the world? This intermediate course invites students to build upon foundational storytelling skills by exploring time as a fluid, dynamic, and expressive force in narrative media. Through experimental projects and critical discussions, students will engage with non-linear, abstract, and speculative forms of storytelling across video, audio, and hybrid formats. Emphasizing the poetic and conceptual power of temporal disruption, the course challenges students to rethink narrative conventions and consider how time mediates memory, experience, and meaning. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Time-Based Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or Photo/Video/Film Elective Option (Graphic Design students) or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or Studio Elective
FN140 Time-Based Practices or Permission of Instructor
PH 260Shaped by the Media: Documentary and the Art of Representation3
This introductory course explores documentary as a multifaceted storytelling practice, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary approaches to representing facts, issues, and events. Students will engage with a variety of documentary forms and media, experimenting with cross-disciplinary and hybrid techniques to craft compelling narratives. The course covers essential concepts in documentary production, including story research, interviewing techniques, location and fieldwork, story development, editing, and presentation. Students will examine the ethical responsibilities of documentary producers and how media shapes public perception and social discourse. Through the critical viewing of historical and contemporary works, students will gain a broad perspective of the evolving landscape of documentary. Assignments support hands-on engagement with essential tools and techniques of documentary production. By the end of the course, students will have developed original short-form documentaries and a critical framework for analyzing documentary practice today. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Time-Based Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or Photo/Video/Film Elective Option (Graphic Design students) or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or Studio Elective Page 77 of 91
FN140 Time-Based Practices or Permission of Instructor
PH 265Telling Stories: Audio, Video, and the Art of Narrative3
This introductory course explores audio and video as essential tools for storytelling, emphasizing narrative as a foundational framework for shaping meaning and conveying experience. Students will gain technical proficiency in core production methods—including capturing and recording, nonlinear editing, and sound design—while analyzing how stories operate across different media. The course focuses on linear and non-linear storytelling structures, introducing students to the conceptual and formal elements that shape narrative. Through hands-on projects and critical reflection, students will develop a working vocabulary and a foundational understanding of how to construct compelling, purposeful stories across formats. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Requirement (Photo/Video/Film students) or Photo/Video/Film Elective Option (Graphic Design students) or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or Studio Elective
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Photography and Video. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or Studio Elective
Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
PH 305Studio Photography3
The studio has become the chosen area of many contemporary fine art photographers. Still life, portraiture, and studio installations will be covered with strong attention to the support of image content using a variety of different staging and lighting techniques. Ambient, continuous source lights and strobe lights will be covered as well as aesthetic interpretations of subject matter and light. A final print portfolio will be required. (last offered fall 2025) Fulfills: Studio Photography Requirement (Photo/Video/Film students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Through the Lens: Seeing and Making and Digital Media I or Permission of Instructor
PH 310The Constructed Image: Studio Photography and Visual Storytelling3
The studio is more than a controlled environment—it is a dynamic environment of intention, invention and intervention. It serves as a platform where images are constructed, staged and transformed. Through still life, portraiture, and staged tableau, students will investigate how lighting, spatial arrangement, and materiality shape meaning and influence interpretation. Working with ambient, continuous, and strobe lighting, students experiment with light as both a technical tool and as a means for conveying meaning. Discussions will critically engage with historical and contemporary artists who use the studio to explore the construction of imagery, the fluidity of representation, and the shifting boundaries between reality and artifice. A final portfolio will synthesize technical precision with conceptual depth, encouraging students to push their photographic practice beyond mere documentation into the realm of constructed imagery and expanded visual storytelling. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Students work independently to build and expand their photographic and artistic portfolios based on their own professional interests. Projects and assignments are designed to address the professional interests of each student which allows them to work independently towards the production of a focused portfolio. Students explore career options and preparation related to their interests and update their career documents - resumes and CV’s, project proposals and artists statements. Professional practice topics - residencies, grants, artist fellowships, exhibition and publication opportunities - and other professional development considerations are discussed within the context of their chosen career path and practice. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective Page 78 of 91
PH 320Post-Photography Theories and Practices: From Optics to Computation3
What defines a photographic image - light, time, composition, intent? How does photography evolve when it transcends its reliance on cameras? This course explores the shifting role of photography in the digital and AI-driven age, examining how traditional photographic practices are being redefined by digital tools, artificial intelligence, and hybrid media forms. Through critical discussions on authorship, representation, creativity, and machine collaboration, students will engage with the ethical and aesthetic complexities of image-making in a post-photographic world. Over the semester, students will apply key theoretical frameworks to develop a body of work that merges traditional and computational techniques, critically exploring the evolving boundaries of photographic practice through hybrid media approaches. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or 300-Level Elective or Studio Elective
Students will design and create a variety of portfolios using their photographs, videos, and other artworks in electronic form for distribution through multiple media and marketing outlets and content aggregators. Topics include image generation and evaluation, and advanced editing and sequencing options. All aspects of website design, from the initial concept to the final site launch is covered. Students complete the semester with a live website they have designed, edited and deployed as professionals. Fulfills: Website and Portfolio Design Requirement (Photo/Video/Film students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio
PH 350The Materiality of Images in a Virtual World: From Celluloid & Silver to…?3
What happens to the material essence of an image in a world increasingly shaped by digital and virtual media? How do material processes influence meaning, authorship, and authenticity in an era of algorithmic and AI-generated imagery? This course explores the physical foundations of image-making, from celluloid film and silver-based prints to contemporary digital imaging, through hands-on engagement with traditional photographic and experimental filmmaking techniques. Students will examine how material choices shape perception, meaning, and creative intent while exploring the evolving relationship between image, object, and material. By working with physical and chemical processes, the course challenges students to reconsider the tangible and sensory dimensions of both still and moving images, tracing photography and film’s past, present, and speculative futures. of Instructor Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
PH204 Through the Lens: Seeing and Making or PH230 Through the Lens: Beyond the Expected or Permission
PH 355Advanced Traditional Photographic Processes3
In this advanced course students make exhibition-quality prints using silver based, black and white photographic processes. Topics covered in this class are technical as well as conceptual, they include: issues of traditional photographic representation in a digital world, the cross fertilization of digital and traditional processes, advanced exposure and development of negatives, archival processing and presentation, and techniques that provide for optimum control in the darkroom. Intensive darkroom time and demonstrations of advanced printing control will refine students printing skills. Assignments, independent projects, written and oral presentations, and critiques will challenge and expand students' visual skills and their ability to communicate their ideas. A final portfolio of prints will be presented to receive credit for the course. of Instructor Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective Page 79 of 91
PH204 Through the Lens: Seeing and Making or PH230 Through the Lens: Beyond the Expected or Permission
PH 360Whose Story Will You Tell: Personal, Social, and Cultural Narratives3
How do moving images and sound shape the way we tell stories? This course explores visual storytelling as both a creative practice and a critical inquiry, examining how personal, social, and cultural narratives take shape across film, video, audio, and multimedia forms. Through documentary, experimental cinema, and interactive storytelling, students will investigate how evolving technologies and cultural shifts influence narrative techniques. They will explore linear and non-linear structures, participatory approaches, expanded documentary, and other strategies to shape and tell stories. Hands-on projects will encourage students to develop their own voices, focusing on how narrative frameworks and creative decisions shape the experience and communication of stories. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Time-Based Elective (Photo/Video/Film students or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
This class is about using images and text(s) to construct narratives. Students explore and examine the use of images and text/language as a way to express personal and/or collective narratives. Emphasis will be placed on developing a personal approach to image making and storytelling. Students are encouraged to experiment with multiple imaging processes and explore different forms of storytelling and narrative structures as a means to construct context and shape meaning. Class discussions, readings and exercises explore single and sequential images, image and text relationships, time and moving images, aural space, and other structures and frameworks that can be used to shape and inform narratives, meaning and expression. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or Narrative Elective (Writing & Visual Narrative students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
FN140 Time-Based Practices or Permission of Instructor
PH 395398 Topics in Photo/Video/Film3
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Photography. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation. Fulfills: Photo/Video/Film Elective (Photo/Video/Film students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
