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MPS 306
The Idea of Photography
This course focuses on selected 20th and 21st century ideas that have made important contributions to modern, post-modern, and post-photographic understandings of culture. The course critically examines theories of image making from historical and contemporary perspectives. Interpretation and analysis of photographic imagery and language are carried out in relation to a range of critical, cultural, aesthetic, social, and technological contexts. (Formerly first half of MPS26AB).
Weekly Contact: Lecture: 3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1
Mentioned in the Following Calendar Pages
*List may not include courses that are on a common table shared between programs.
- Image Arts
- MPS 406 - The Visual Culture of Photography
- Photography Studies Minor
- Sociology Professionally-Related Table IV
