As a student of photography, your study begins with a thorough investigation of analog and digital photographic processes, including hands-on training with a variety of film and digital cameras; and both black and white, and color darkroom procedures and alternative output practices. Advanced photography courses train you in the use of medium- and large-format cameras, in-studio lighting strategies, metering, film types, and a variety of techniques that prepare you for an inside view of the profession: working with professional fashion and documentary photographers.
The exploration of age-old alternative photographic processes—compounding sensitizers, creating cyanotypes by hand coating beautiful art papers, gum bichromate, platinum palladium, etc.—complements your education and prepares you for a career in photojournalism, print or documentary photography, or the pursuit of graduate studies.
Introduction to Printmaking
Introductional to Sculptural Practices
Introduction to Photography
Art Since 1945
Visual Geometry
Introduction to Typography
Traditional Color Processes
Digital Photography
History of Photography
Science/Art/Technology
Total 30
Advanced Photographic Techniques
Introduction to Video
Applied Lighting
2 Studio Electives
Professional Writing and Rhetoric
Humanities Elective
Alternative Photo Processes
Fashion Photography
Internship
Art and the Law
Liberal Arts Elective
Total 36
Digital Portfolio for Photography
Introduction to Photo Studio Thesis
Studio Elective
2 Humanities or Social Science Electives
Social Science Elective
Studio Thesis for Photography
Professional Practices
Seminar Thesis
Total 30