Summer 2008

ACG 132 Elctronic Paint for Macintosh - 3 units

Syllabus

Instructor: Hassaan Mahmood
Class: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Morning
Rooms:
Lecture: MTWR 9:00 am- 11:00 am, room, 1025-A
Lab: MTWR 11:15 - 1:15 pm, room. 1024-A

Email addresses: teacher@artbug.com
e-mail if you will miss more than one class otherwise you risk being dropped. (Do not e-mail to ask what you missed in class or for me to critique your work.)

Course Description:
This intermediate to advanced electronic painting course focuses on the creation of bit-mapped (raster) images; original artworks, photographs, video or scanned images will provide the basis for image manipulation. The course also offers the professional artist basic Macintosh skills needed for employment and/or advancement. Prerequisites: ACG 100 or ACG 102.

Hardware used: Macintosh, color scanner, B&W and color printers.

Software used: Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop is a powerful application for color painting, photo retouching, and image editing. You'll find that Photoshop excels as an art production tool, whether you are a graphics producer who needs to merge and edit color images, a photographer who wants to retouch proofs, or a graphic designer who is creating original or composite artwork, collages, or photo montages for print, Web, Video, and Multimedia projects.

Course Objectives:
The student will be able to:
Evaluate graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop as artistic tools.
Demonstrate operative skills in the use of paint, photo-editing, and scanning software.
Produce artwork on the computer for a variety of visual arts applications.
Devise ways to incorporate software features into a personal stylistic repertoire.
Use professional resources and research as a means to update and maintain professional skills for lifelong learning.
Learn and use technical vocabulary commensurate to the ACG certification.
Practice and learn graphics file formats supporting continuous tone bitmap images.

Assignments:
A series of design assignments will be completed that explore the unique possibilities offered by electronic imagemaking technology. This is an art class that will be organized around the creative potential of the individual student.

Materials List:
• Drawing pad and pencil for thumbnails and rough sketches
• Notebook for final portfolio (20 double sided or 40 single sided)
• USB Flash drives, CD-Rs, portable hard drive or anyother way to save your work.
• Text (optional): Adobe Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team: ISBN: 0321321847

Methods of Instruction:
Lecture, slides, Power Point presentations, computer demonstrations, handouts, and class critiques

Methods of Evaluation:
Grading is based on: punctuality and attendance, in class, performance of on going work, your participation in class critiques, and the concept, originality, growth, and quality of the artwork created and presented in your portfolio. Notebooks will be graded at mid-term and at the end of the semester. There will be a graded mid-term and final project and periodically I might call for an assignment to be graded.

A – outstanding performance,
B – above average performance,
C – average performance,
D – below average performance, though passing,
F – failure

Attendance:
CLASS STARTS ONTIME! 3 tardies = 1 absence, 3 unexcused absences will lower your grade by one grade.
ASSIGNMENTS ARE TO BE EXECUTED DURING CLASS PERIOD EVEN IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN COMPUTER AT HOME!
No late work is accepted. Assignments are due on designated dates not the date of the critique

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Course Information and Policies

• Attendance will be monitored very closely. Any absences in excess of two will result in lowering your final grade. The two excused absences are for illness and emergencies only. In case of absence for any reason please notify me in advance. If an illness or emergency requires more than two absences please contact me as soon as possible.

• Class will start promptly at the scheduled time. You are expected to be punctual.

• Please come to class prepared to work. This means that you bring all the relevant tools, books, notebooks, reference material, and the current assignment.

• Each student is responsible for all information given out in class whether or not she/he is present. If you miss a class it is your responsibility to find out what you missed and catch up. The same is true for assignments.

• Projects that are not submitted on time may be penalized. Absence from class and not knowing what the requirements and due dates of the assignments are, are not acceptable reasons for turning in work late. Assignments may be re-done at any time during the course for a higher grade.

• You are required to meet for a Final Exam at the end of the semester. More information will be given nearer the time.

Academic Honesty

The following information is excerpted from the current college catalog.

Students are expected to abide by ethical standards in preparing and presenting material which demonstrates their level of knowledge and which is used to determine grades. Such standards are founded on basic concepts of integrity and honesty. These include but are not limited to the following areas:

1. Students shall not plagiarize, which is defined as:
a. stealing or passing off as one’s own the ideas or words of another.
b. using a creative production without crediting the source.

The following cases constitute plagiarism:
• paraphrasing published material; without crediting the source,
• making significant use of an idea or a particular arrangement of ideas, e.g. outlines,
• writing a paper after consultation with persons who provide suitable ideas and incorporating those ideas into the paper without acknowledgment,
• submitting under one’s own name term papers or other reports which have been prepared by others.

2. Students shall not cheat, which is defined as:
a. using notes, aids, or help of other students on tests or exams in ways other than those expressly permitted by the instructor,
b. misreporting or altering the data in laboratory or research projects involving the collection of data.

3. Students shall not furnish materials or information in order to enable another student to plagiarize or cheat.

Instructors may deal with academic dishonesty in one or more of the following ways:

1. Assign an appropriate academic penalty such as an oral reprimand (as in cases where there is reasonable doubt that the student knew that the action violated the standards of honesty); assign an "F" on all or part of a particular paper, project, or exam (for example where it was felt that it was a one-time occurrence); or assign an "F" in the course (as in cases where the dishonesty was serious, premeditated, or part of an ongoing scheme).

2. Report to the appropriate administrators, with notification of same to the student(s), for disciplinary action by the College. Such a report will be accompanied by supporting evidence and documentation.

Emergency Response
Please take note of the safety features in and close to your classroom, as well as study the posted evacuation route. The most direct route of egress may not be the safest because of roofing tiles or other potentially hazardous conditions. Similarly, running out of the building can also be dangerous during severe earthquakes. During strong quakes the recommended response is duck-cover-and hold until the shaking stops. Follow the guidance of your instructor. You are asked to go to the designated assembly area. Your cooperation during emergencies can minimize the possibility of injury to yourself and others.

Americans with Disabilities Act
Colleges are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities upon request of the student (in a timely manner) and upon verification of the disability.