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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme: To prepare photography specialist being able to work in the journalistic, advertising and documentation fields, perform high-quality photography technological tasks, develop creativity and teamwork skills.
Learning outcomes:
Knowledge and its application: Will know the context of different epochs and modern culture. Will get acquainted with the basic characteristics of photo equipment, understand the main principles of its operation and be able to use abilities provided by photo techniques. Will be able to apply knowledge and skills in professional activities and solving media art problems, use creatively the latest technologies and equipment in practical implementation of ideas.
Competences to carry out research: Will be able to evaluate photography business situations and trends, will understand the legal system of activities and management principles of photography, will be able to apply them implementing creative and professional projects. Will be able to purposefully collect and analyse data for solution of creative problems, referring to traditional and modern art practice and applied scientific research. Will recognize, compare and critically evaluate relevant photographic phenomena and trends.
Special skills: Will be able to professionally apply possibilities of recording and photography equipment and lightening methodology. Will understand specific features of photojournalism, will photograph for the media and for publishers. Will be able to create photographs of applied nature for advertising and for graphic design. Will be able to apply information technologies in the fields of modern digital photography. Will be able to professionally apply principles of artistic creativity in the working process. Will be able to experiment in the creative process and create a portfolio.
Social skills: Will demonstrate communicative skills in oral and written form in state and foreign languages; will be able to express their creative position using the appropriate professional vocabulary. Will be able to work in a team, communicate with colleagues, potential clients and the general public, solving tasks of professional activity.
Personal skills: Will record events objectively, applying various methods of photography. Will be able reasonably and critically evaluate personal professional activity, will be aware of moral responsibility for the results of their creative activity and its impact on society and the environment.
Teaching and learning activities: Lectures, consultations, practical tasks and course papers, individual work, training and professional activity practices. Students accomplish practical works individually or in groups.
Methods of assessment of learning outcomes: The student’s knowledge, abilities and skills acquired while studying subjects of the study programme are assessed after completing of individual assignments performed during the semester and the exam session. The achieved learning outcomes after completion of the subject/module studies are assessed attributing them to the levels of achievement: excellent, typical and threshold.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
General College Study Subjects: Foreign Language, Professional Lithuanian, Environmental and Human Safety and alternatively optional subjects (Sociology, Psychology, Professional Ethics – selected one of them).
Subjects of the Study Field: Composition, Colour Theory, Visual Communication, Graphic Editing 1, Graphic Editing 2, Culturology, History of Modern Art, History of Photography, Portrait Photography, Photography of Landscape, Architecture and Interior, Reportage Photography, Technologies of Advertising Photography, Fashion Photography, Strategies of Photography, Photo Equipment, Special Technologies, Advertisement Still-Life Photography, Occasion Photography, Social Advertising Photography, Fundamentals of Mass Media, Fundamentals of Advertising, Fundamentals of Filming, Management of Project, Creative Business, Applied Research
Special Study Subjects: Optional subjects by choice of students (Cinema Language, Painting Techniques, 3D Software, Calligraphy, Aesthetics, Graphic Techniques, Art Workshop 1, Art Workshop 2 – selected three of them); Final work.
Practices: Cognitive Practice, Lighting Practice, Creative Practice, Composition Practice, Professional Practice, Final Practice.
Completion of Studies: Studies are completed by defending the Final work individually prepared by a student.
Distinctive features of the study programme: The study programme is distinguished by the completeness of subjects relevant to the contemporary photography market and provides students with the opportunity to use professional photography and lighting methodology, manage photo equipment, take photographs for advertising and press, shoot, create photographic illustrations for books and apply information technologies in the field of digital photography. The College in cooperation with the Lithuanian Union of Art Photographers and Lithuanian Press Photo Club, provides students with the opportunity to participate in various lectures, competitions and exhibitions organized by social stakeholders. During creative practice in Nida, students participate in annual international photo artists’ workshops and organized competitions.
Access to professional activity or further study: The graduate will be able to work as a photographer in mass media, advertising, publishing enterprises, digital laboratories and other areas engaged in image production and output or perform individual activities with business license or having authorship agreements.
The graduate can continue his/her studies having chosen university study programmes in the field of Media Art studies.
