MCOM 312 - Visual Perception and Imaging

(3 S.H.)

This course is an in-depth examination of the production and perception of images. Students acquire a deep foundation in composition and color design necessary to develop an advanced photographic practice. The class includes selection, gestalt grouping, light, memory and association, color, time, space, contours, illusion, rhetoric, subliminal elements, and critiquing photographs. Students acquire a foundation for becoming discerning producers and consumers of images, and learn how and why images communicate in a given expressive context. This class provides students the tools for producing advanced images in the upper-level photography classes. Prerequisites:

MCOM 210 - Visual Communication

and MCOM 215 - Photo: The Technical Art.

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