Syllabus

 

 
 
Photo 1 - History of Photography
Spring 2012
Tuesday & Thursday 11 am - 12:20 pm
section 66943
Instructor: Denise Johnson
Student Comsultation Hours: by appointment
Mailbox: CAA 302
Voice mail: 909 652 - 7867

 


Course Description

This course will explore the history of photography from its foundations in the Renaissance to its ever evolving position in the 21st century.  Visual language and art terminology will be used to examine photographs from a wide assortment of historical, social, political and personal contexts.  During this investigation, students will be encouraged to develop and maintain a critical eye that takes nothing for granted and is actively engaged in questioning.  Through this critical examination, students will gain a general level of knowledge, understanding and appreciation for photography and its history. 

This is a 3-unit UC/CSU course.
 
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
    • Describe the main styles and tendencies in the development of photography in written and oral presentations.
    • Identify the style and theme of historical works.
    • Identify important works by their photographer's names.
    • Relate photo trends to contemporary art trends in other media.
    • Relate expression in photos to changes in society.
    • Exhibit familiarity with vocabulary, processes and ideas in the history of photography.
    • Compare and contrast styles, ideas, and processes as they relate to the history of our country.




Required Text
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. Any edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 
Recommended Texts

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Seventh ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
(Chaffey Library 808.02 G43)

MLA Handbook
   
College Dictionary and Thesaurus

 

 
Instructional Websites

This course will be taught from the instructional website: www.theslideprojector.com. Lecture presentations, assignments, and other course materials will be available to students at this site, and you will need to access it regularly.  Please let the instructor know if you do not have internet access.

Various course materials will be available on the course moodle site at moodle.chaffey.edu/. Registered students will use moodle to take online quizzes, review their current grade, utilize a discussion board, and access other materials.


Student Resources
Chaffey College is committed to helping you achieve your educational goals. To assist your learning, the college provides these (and other) valuable services:
Library
The Chaffey College library is open Monday through Saturday and is closed on Sunday and college holidays. Check the library website at www.chaffey.edu/library/ or call (909) 652-6800 for current hours. A valid Chaffey I.D. is required for any library services including check out of reserve textbooks and other material to use in the library or for on-line access.
Success Centers
 
Chaffey College has created Student Success Centers, which offer free tutorials, workshops, study groups, directed learning activities, and computer/resource access to assist students in their academic development and success. Students are highly encouraged to make use of the resources at the Writing Center, located in the library (909) 652–6820 and the Rancho Success Center in the Educational Excellence Building (909) 652–6932. Call the Centers or consult the college website at www.chaffey.edu/success/ for more information and operating hours.
 
 
Disability Programs and Services
 

Chaffey College's Disabled Students Programs and Services, or DPS, serves an estimated 1500 students across all Chaffey campuses. DPS serves students with physical, learning, and psychological/psychiatric disabilities by providing accommodations based on the type of disability and verifying documentation. Services include academic counseling, disability related counseling and referral for community resources, test accommodations, tram services, adapted computer lab, assistive technology training, assessment, and equipment loan. For more information please call (909) 652-6379 or TDD/TTY (909) 466-2829 or visit our website at www.chaffey.edu/dps/.
 
 
Veterans Services Center
 
Chaffey College's Veterans Resource Center (VRC) is dedicated to assisting veterans and eligible family members in achieving their educational goals efficiently and without impediments. If you are a veteran or eligible family member, please contact the Veterans Resource Center at (909) 652-6235 for information regarding educational benefits and opportunities. The Veterans Resource Center (VRC) is located in building AD-125 on the Rancho campus.
 
 
Global Career Center
The Global Career Center, through partnerships with staff, faculty, employers, and the community, empowers students and alumni to make educated career decisions. The GCC has resources available to help students make these important decisions. Many of the services at the GCC are free, including: career counseling, career assessments, résumé assistance, interviewing skills preparation, job referrals, student employment, and various workshops that are offered throughout the semester. The GCC is located in AD 189 and can be contacted at (909) 652-6511.

 

 

Policies
To ensure that our learning community functions well and that everyone is treated with the respect that they deserve, we must all agree to the following courtesies and guidelines.
 
  Attendance
 

Good attendance is essential to your success! While you will not be graded directly on your attendance, numerous absences are sure to negatively affect your grade.

If you have received an add code from the instructor, the deadline to add this course is January 23. Students wishing to drop the course, are responsible for doing so via MyChaffey View by February 10 without record, or by April 11 with a "W" grade.
   
  Complete Assignments Before Class Begins
 

Assignments should be turned in at the beginning of class. Any work done during class will NOT be given credit.
   
  Late Assignments
 

You may turn one assignment in one class day late.  The late assignment will not be marked down, however any assignments turned in more than one class late, or in addition to the one accepted assignment, will NOT receive credit.

The instructor’s mailbox is located on the third floor of the Center for the Arts building A (a.k.a. “the new art building” and CAA) in the Art Department Office, CAA 302.  If you cannot attend a class when an assignment is due, but can deliver the assignment to my mailbox by the close of the following day, I will not consider your assignment late. Please remember to place your assignment in the box UNDER your instructor's name (Denise Johnson).
   
  Respect is Key
 

We will often consider provocative and challenging subject matter in this class and must therefore agree to respect each other’s views and identities. Our diverse backgrounds and opinions are assets and no student shall be made to feel inferior or uncomfortable because of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or physical/ intellectual abilities.
   
  Take a Break from Texting!
 

Please DO NOT text message during class. If you need to attend to an important message, please leave the classroom and return when you can fully commit your attention to the class discussion.
   
  Cheating & Plagiarism
 

Integrity is an essential component of the student academic experience. The academic evaluation a student receives for a course becomes a permanent college record and it is critical that such records be accurate and consistent. The integrity students learn and exhibit at the college will be a model for the professional integrity they practice when they complete their college work. Accordingly, Chaffey College has classified academic dishonesty into the following categories and included examples for each category.

  • Cheating
  • Unauthorized collaboration
  • Facilitating Academic Dishonesty
  • Interference or sabbotage
  • Plagiarism
  • Fabrication
  • Retaliation
   
Study Time

Students should plan on spending two to three hours reading, fulfilling assignments and studying for this class for every hour spent in the classroom. That's 96 to 144 hours of Photo 1 study time this semester!

 
Submission Deadline

With the exception of the Final Exam, all course work must be submitted by the last day of lecture. NO COURSE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 12:20 PM ON MAY 15!!!
 
Grades

Grades will be available online by June 5.

 

 

Grading

There are 500 points possible in this class. Fifty percent of your grade will be earned through writing and compiling a Compendium of Knowledge, 25% by taking online quizzes, 15% by writing reading and lecture questions with a learning community, and 10% by completing Exhibition and Event Reports. Students are strongly encouraged to keep track of points earned on each assignment throughout the semester with the grade table included in this syllabus. If requesting an appointment with the instructor to review your current grade, you will be asked to bring the grade table with your earned points recorded to the meeting.
The grading scale is as follows:
A
   100 - 90% 500 - 448 points  
   
A+
   500 - 483
   
A
   482 - 466
   
A-
   465 - 448
B
   89 - 80% 447 - 398  
   
B+
   447 - 433
   
B
   432 - 418
   
B-
   417 - 398
C
   79 - 70% 397 - 348  
   
C+
   397 - 373
   
C
   372 -348
D
   69 - 60% 347 - 297  
   
D+
   347 - 333
   
D
   332 - 318
   
D-
   317 - 297
 
F
   59% - or less 296 - 0 points  

 

Compendium of Knowledge - (5 X 36) + (7 X 10) = 250 points

A Compendium of Knowledge is a collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the photographic works and issues considered this semester by writing a Compendium of Knowledge that will be submitted in five sections worth 36 points each.

Pages for the first few sections will need to be printed from the "Assignments" page on The Slide Projector, while directions for the later sections will allow each student more flexibility in the works they choose to discuss. Each section will be graded on the adequacy of responses to questions, the writer's demonstrated understanding of key concepts and identification of corresponding styles, themes, artists and techniques, as well as the use of Learning to Learn strategies.

As we study the history of photography, and learn to interpret photographic images, we will utilize nine art historical methods. Course content has been organized so that each section of your Compendium relates to specific methodologies. As we learn to use these methods, students will complete seven Methodology Flash Pages each worth ten points, to be included in their Compendium of Knowledge.

 
 

Learning Communities – 5 X 15 = 75 points

Students will be randomly organized into Learning Communities to discuss course material and to write ten relevant questions (with answers) that will be reviewed by the instructor to assess comprehension and depth of understanding. Well written and critically engaging questions will be used on the following quiz. If the instructor determines that community questions lack rigor, she will use her own questions on the quiz ;0) Communities will submit ten questions, together worth fifteen points, during five meetings over the semester.
 
Quizzes – (4 X 30 - lowest score) + 35 = 125 points

Students will be asked to log onto the class's moodle page to complete four online quizzes, each worth a maximum of 30 points. Quiz questions will be derive from Learning Communities and may be multiple choice, fill in the blank, image identification, true or false, or short answer essay. Quizzes will be made available on Fridays and must be completed by 11:59 pm on the due date.

Sorry, make-up quizzes cannot be accommodated. However, the lowest quiz score will be dropped.

A mandatory, comprehensive final quiz, that is due on the day of the final exam, will be worth 35 points.

 
 
 
Exhibition Report - 30 points

Students are required to view (in person) an exhibition held off campus, during the current semester, and complete an Exhibition Report worth 30 points considering the works on view, organization and curatorial concerns of the exhibition. The report can be accessed on the "Assignments" page of The Slide Projector.

 
 
 
Event Report - 20 points

During the semester, students are asked to attend an on-campus event that relates to photography and to submit an Event Report worth 15 points. The Wignall Museum, Art Department, One Book One College program, Chaffey Art Organization and other groups on campus offer relevant and stimulating events throughout the semester. Check the Got Culture? calendar and class bulletin board for upcoming activities. The report can be accessed on the "Assignments" page of The Slide Projector.
 
 
 
Extra Credit

Opportunities to earn extra credit may be announced during class. However, students are limited to earning a maximum of 25 extra credit points (five percent) during the semester. Any points earned above 5% of the total course grade will NOT be applied to the final grade calculation.

 

 

 

 

Class Schedule and Required Reading
Please complete and be prepared to discuss the assigned readings before the date they will be presented in class. This is a tentative schedule, and may be changed by the instructor at any point during the semester according to the needs of the class.
Date
Discussion Topic
Assignment Due
January 17
Introduction
January 19
Before Photography
Introduction - page 7
 
January 24

Invention of Photographies
Pages 7 - 12

  
January 26
The Daguerreotype
Pages 12 - 17 & 58 - 74
Methodology Flash 1
 
January 31
The Expanding Domain
Pages 17 - 31
 
February 2
Photography's Re-Invention
Pages 74 - 75
Methodology Flash 2
 
February 7
Encyclopedic Knowledge
Pages 40 - 42 & 46 - 58
 
February 9
Photographic "Truths"
Pages 32 - 40, 216 - 224 & 229
Learning Community 1
 
February 14
Between Art & Science
Pages 127 - 141 & 210 - 216
Quiz #1
February 16
The Question of Art
Pages 43 - 45, 84 - 90 & Chapter 4
Compendium Pages Set 1
 
February 21
Amateur Practices
Pages 91 - 98
Methodology Flash 3
February 23
The Impact of the Hand-Held
Pages 160 - 172, & 195 - 210
 
February 28
Pictorialism
Pages 172 - 194
Methodology Flash 4
March 1
Straight Photography
Pages 230 - 233
Learning Community 2
 
March 6
New Vision
Pages 234 - 243 & 259 - 263
Quiz #2
March 8
Healing the Madness
Pages 242 - 259
Methodology Flash 5
 
March 13
Art & Documentary
Pages 260 - 268 & 278 - 296
Compendium Pages Set 2
March 15
The Golden Age of News Photography
Pages 296 - 299
 
March 20
Spring Break
March 22
 
March 27
California Modern
Pages 268 - 277
March 29
The Atomic Age
Pages 299 - 308
Learning Community 3
 
April 3
The Family of Man?
Pages 309 - 311 & Chapter 10
Quiz #3
April 5
Consuming Amrica
Pages 338 - 349
Methodology Flash 6
 
April 10
Social Landscape
Pages 349 - 354
Compendium Page Set 3
April 12
Through the Lens of Culture
Pages 354 - 371
 
April 17
Faculty Lecturer of the Year - No Class
April 19
New Topographics
Pages 372 - 394

Learning Community 4
 
April 24
Postmodernism
Pages 390 - 404
Quiz #4
Chapter 12
April 26
Appropriation
Chapter 13
Methodology Flash 7
 
May 1
Culture Wars
Pages 454 & 474 - 489
Compendium Pages Set 4
May 3
Photographic Fictions
 
May 8
Photographic Politics
  
May 10
The Death of Photography?
Pages 405 - 435 & 490 - 491

Learning Community 5

 
May 15
Into the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 14
Compendium Pages Set 5
Event & Exhibition Reports
 
May 22
Grade Appointments 11:30 am - 2 pm
  Final Quiz

 

 

Have you considered in A.A. in ART HISTORY?

The Art History program prepares students for transfer to four-year colleges and universities and for careers in education, museums, research, and related fields. Students learn the major theories and artistic movements in Art and Architecture from the ancient to the modern world, and evaluate the influences that social, political, and religious institutions have in the creation of art. The program addresses the dynamic fields of both Western and Non-Western Art and Architecture, as well as the critical roles that Photography, Contemporary Art, and Graphic Design have in shaping our society. Students should consult with the intended transfer institution to determine the appropriate courses to complete at Chaffey.

To obtain an Associate's Degree in Art History, students must complete both the major requirements below and the graduation requirements listed on pages 24-25 of the college catalog.

Major requirements for the Associate in Arts Degree:
Art 1 Contemporary Art: 1945 - Present
Art 3 Art History of the Western World: Ancient to Medieval
Art 5 Art History of the Western World: Renaissance to Modern

Plus one studio course:
Art 10 Fundamentals of Design in Two Dimensions
Art 12 Fundamentals of Design in Three Dimensions
Art 14 Introduction to Drawing
Art 18 Introduction to Ceramics
Photo 7 Introduction to Digital Photography
Photo 10 Beginning Photography

Plus one course from the following:
ART 9 Art of the Pre-Columbian Americas (Non-Western)
ART 11 Asian Art History (Non-Western)
ID 13 Non-European Architecture and Design (Non-Western)

Plus two courses from the following:
ART 6 Women Artists in History
ART 407 History of Design
PHOTO 1 History of Photography

or,

Plus two courses from the following:*
ART 10 Fundamentals of Design in Two Dimensions
ART 12 Fundamentals of Design in Three Dimension
ART 14 Introduction to Drawing
ART 18 Introduction to Ceramics
PHOTO 7 Introduction to Digital Photography
PHOTO 10 Beginning Photography

 

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