Educator P Credit Course: Capturing the City Through the Camera

P Credit Course: Capturing the City Through the Camera: Documenting New York's History

Course Details:

• This course is now SOLD OUT. Participants who registered on ASPDP will receive an email with instructions detailing how to complete registration. 
• Sunday, August 4 through Friday, August 9, 2019, 9am-4pm daily
• Course Fee: $250 (+ $125 ASPDP fee for P Credit participants)
• 3 P Credits, 6 Day Course, 36 CTLE Hours

Course Description:

In this dynamic six-session program, learn how to use the camera to capture your personal relationship to New York City while learning the history behind some of the city’s most iconic structures and places. 

The course will explore history, urban observation, visual literacy, and the art and practice of photography, including a variety of photographic techniques and processes such as point-of-view, cyanotype prints, and portraiture. This course brings together the art and historical significance of photographs, modeling how to bring photography and social studies together in teaching. 

Throughout the course, view and discuss photographs from the Museum’s collection and those taken by course participants. Hone your skills through observation and discussion and gain visual literacy skills and best practices for encouraging students to use visual analysis as a key learning and observational tool. Gain experience using digital cameras (a professional digital camera is provided for your use during the week) to develop your compositional skills while considering the lighting, framing, perspective, and tone of images. At the end of the course, curate your best photographs and present them to their peers during a critique.

Field trips and behind-the-scenes tours complement the learning. In addition to photographing the major components of the city, including buildings, parks, landmarks, and people, you will study important photographers such as Jacob Riis, Berenice Abbott, and Stanley Kubrick. Each session will focus on a different aspect of the city and its history, enhanced by viewing works from the Museum’s renowned photography collection. In addition, participants will discuss key shifts and conflicts in the development of New York City, such as urban renewal and displacement in the 1960s near Lincoln Center, while learning how to help students see these shifts over engage in dialogue about neighborhood development and change today.

Registration Instructions:

This course is now sold out. If you registered through ASPDP, you will receive an email with the link to complete registration through the Museum and pay the Education Partner fee of $250. This second registration step must be completed by August 3, 2019.

Interested in joining the waitlist? Please email pd@mcny.org.

Course Eligibility:

All educators are welcome to take this course. No prior photography experience is required.

The Museum is CTLE certified. Participation in this program provides 36 hours of CTLE credit for eligible participants.

Eligible participants who register with ASPDP and complete the course requirements also receive 3 P Credits.

About P Credit Courses:

The Museum of the City of New York offers Professional Credit (P Credit) Courses throughout the year. These courses are open to all educators, including educators not eligible for credits through the New York City Department of Education.

P Credit in-service courses are offered in conjunction with the New York City Department of Education’s After School Professional Development Program (ASPDP) and can be applied towards teachers' 30+ salary differential. ASPDP courses may also be used by teachers and paraprofessionals toward the NYS Professional Development requirement, as long as their principal approves. For more information on DOE salary differentials, please visit the DOE website.

Find out more about all of the P Credit Courses offered by the Museum on our P Credit page.