APH380.4 Theory of Photographic Image (Teoria de la imagen fotografica)

APH380.4 Theory of Photographic Image (Teoria de la imagen fotografica)

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica. Theoretical course aimed at understanding the basis and specificity of photography and its impact on photographic aesthetics. Students will analyze the cultural, ideological and artistic factors involved in the photographic process and will develop critical skills and creative photo project management. (UC code: ART 033)

APH380.3 History of Camera Images II

This couse will review changes and innovations in the ways in which camera images have been produced and used, but also criticised and evaluated. The course will therefore introduce you to significant work made by camera users, across what is apparently an expanding range of photographic and moving image practices, styles, techniques and genres of the last half century or so. It will also, however, review the changes in ways in which camera images have been conceptualised, reviewing some of the influential theorisations of photographic, filmic and video images, so as to enable thought about and criticism of the roles of camera-images in communication, including informed assessment of images, styles, techniques and genres. (POV 3214)

APH380.2 Fashion Photography

This course aims to introduce the basic concepts of fashion photography and offers practices that combine fashion and photography in outdoor and studio shootings, operations of fashion business and brands / and studying all the topics with examples from all over the world. (POV 4334/POV 3337)

APH380.1 Fine Art Photography

This course offers the knowledge and practice of post photographic processes like archival prints, alternative processes, different chemical and digital printing within the context of historical and contemporary practices. The effects of these processes on narration and production will also be explained and some of these processes will be put in practice by the students if it is applicable. (POV 4336/POV 3337)

APH380.2 Photography Today

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. Starting from the theoretical and practical developments that develop within photographical production, this course will introduce students to some critical revisions that have formed in the field. Through increased knowledge, students will have the opportunity to learn traditional and new techniques, in which digital production of images will emerge. (UC code: DNO020)

ANT380.3 Anthropology of Religion – Antropología de la Religión

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course examines various classic and contemporary anthropological perspectives on religion, framing some key theories and their implications. In particular, it explores the results of the meeting between local religions and orthodoxy of traditional religions (mainly Christianity). It also offers an exploration of these issues through ethnographies in different cultural and geographical contexts. (SOL 160A)

APH280.1 Photography for Design

This course has two main aims: first, to explore intermediate and advanced techniques of the photographic medium like design, composition and perception in a formal tendency; second, to study the relation between context and photographic medium in a contextual tendency. (VCD 3134)

ANT380.2 Continental American Anthropology

Taught in Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and may not be offered every semester. This course aims to provide knowledge of the cultural elements of societies and worldviews of indigenous Central and South Americans, their permanence in time and space, and their relations with the non-indigenous world. Students will learn how to synthesize the characteristics of the American Indian world, from its origins to the present day, through analysis of anthropological and ethno-historical sources and from the perspective of a plural and diverse society, to assess the ethnic and cultural diversity of indigenous peoples of America and to identify the foundations of American cultural identity present in the indigenous worldview. (UC code: IHA 0010)

ADV280.1 Global Advertising

This course concentrates on creating an understanding of globalization, international markets, marketing across borders, global advertising and Integrated Marketing Communication strategies worldwide. SU advertising majors may count this course toward an Emphasis in Advertising curriculum. SU students may not earn credit for both this course and ADV 300 (Comparative Cultural Case Studies in Advertising) taught at the SU London Centre. (ADV 4632)