Photography (PHT) at Northern Virginia Community College
Distance Learning
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- PHT 101 - Photography I
- Teaches principles of photography and fundamental camera techniques. Requires outside shooting and lab work. Part I of II.Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 102 - Photography II
- Teaches principles of photography and fundamental camera techniques. Requires outside shooting and lab work. Part II of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 103 - Black and White Darkroom Photography I
- Highlights principles of photography including camera operation and darkroom procedures. Focuses on black and white photography. Requires outside shooting and lab work.3 Credits. Lecture 2 hours per week, Lab 2 hours per week, Total 4 contact hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 104 - Black and White Darkroom Photography II
- Highlights advanced principles of photography including camera operation and darkroom techniques. Requires outside shooting and lab work.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PHT 103 or permission of instructor3 credits - PHT 106 - Visual Literacy: The Photographic Image
- Emphasizes photographic syntax, how it has evolved and how it relates to reading images. Examines psychological, perceptual and contextual issues relating to photographic images. Open to students of all disciplines.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 110 - History of Photography
- Surveys important photographers, processes, and historical influences of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 130 - Video I
- Introduces the basics of recording and editing video and sound for a variety of intents. Explores time-based media as an art form and means of communication. Part I of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 131 - Video II
- Continues the basics of recording and editing video and sound for a variety of intents. Explores time-based media as an art form and means of communication. Part II of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 198 - Seminar and Project
- Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - PHT 199 - Supervised Study
- Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - PHT 201 - Advanced Photography I
- Provides weekly critiques of students' work. Centers on specific problems found in critiques. Includes working procedures and critical skills in looking at photographs. Part I of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PHT 102 or equivalent.3 credits - PHT 202 - Advanced Photography II
- Provides weekly critiques of students' work. Centers on specific problems found in critiques. Includes working procedures and critical skills in looking at photographs.Part II of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PHT 102 or equivalent.3 credits - PHT 206 - Large Format Photography
- Discusses 4x5 view camera techniques and controls, and sheet film processing. Demonstrates the image-making advantages of large format photography.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PHT 102 or equivalent.3 credits - PHT 211 - Color Photography I
- Introduces theory, materials, and processes of modern color images. Includes additive and subtractive theory, color filtration, and negative and positive printing techniques. Part I of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PHT or equivalent.3 credits - PHT 221 - Studio Lighting I
- Examines advanced lighting and camera techniques under controlled studio conditions. Includes view camera use, electronic flash, advanced lighting techniques, color temperature and filtration, and lighting ratios. Requires outside shooting. Part I of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 222 - Studio Lighting II
- Examines advanced lighting and camera techniques under controlled studio conditions. Includes view camera use, electronic flash, advanced lighting techniques, color temperature and filtration, and lighting ratios. Requires outside shooting. Part II of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PHT 102 or equivalent.3 credits - PHT 227 - Careers in Photography and Media
- Introduces students of photography and video to a variety professional opportunities in the field. This is an advanced course for students who would like to know more about their options in staff and freelance work.Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 228 - Professional Practices for Photographers
- Prepares students of photography and video to start and operate a professional practice. This is an advanced course for students who wish to be self-employed as photographers and/or videographers.Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 231 - Photojournalism I
- Introduces equipment, techniques, skills, and concepts of photojournalism. Teaches photography for features, spot news, and photo essays. Emphasizes editing, captioning, and layout May require individual projects. Part I of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PHT 102 or equivalent.3 credits - PHT 235 - Documentary Photography
- Teaches students how to create an in-depth documentary photography photo-essay. Covers editing the final project for presentation.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PHT 102 and basic computer skills or permission of instructor.3 credits - PHT 247 - Alternative Photographic Processes
- Explores manipulated imagery including traditional and non- traditional processes such as non-silver and electronic imaging. Uses enlarged film negatives in order to investigate a variety of methods.Lecture 1 hour. Laboratory 4 hours. Total 5 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 249 - Night and Low Light Photography
- Explores physical limits of photographic capture including exposure in low light and use of extended time values. Considers the role of these factors in the history, theory, and practice of the medium, as an art form and means of communication.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hour. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 270 - Digital Imaging I & II
- Introduces students to the tools and techniques used by professionals in the electronic imaging field. Focuses on current trends within the photographic, prepress and internet industries. Includes image capture, manipulation, and out-put. Exposes students to the hardware and software used by today's creative professionals in a combination of lectures, demonstrations and class projects. Part I of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 271 - Digital Imaging I & II
- Introduces students to the tools and techniques used by professionals in the electronic imaging field. Focuses on current trends within the photographic, prepress and internet industries. Includes image capture, manipulation, and out-put. Exposes students to the hardware and software used by today's creative professionals in a combination of lectures, demonstrations and class projects. Part II of II.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 274 - Digital Film Editing and Post Production
- Introduces students to techniques and procedures involved in digital film editing and post production. Covers aspects of editing to include industry standard software packages. Emphasizes the mechanics and obstacles of working with the moving image in the 21st century including available tools and methods, importance of file types, and how to keep things organized.Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours. Total 4 hours per week.
3 credits - PHT 290 - Coordinated Internship
- Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - PHT 295 - Topics In
- Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - PHT 297 - Cooperative Education
- Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college's cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-6 credits - PHT 298 - Seminar and Project
- Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - PHT 299 - Supervised Study
- Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
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