BFA

Entry-level digital photo class for majors, minors, and non-majors. Learn how to control the camera expertly and use fun photographic techniques to convey creative concepts.

Intermediate course on Digital Photography with emphasis on Photoshop, inkjet printing, and conceptual development. Students will become experts on conceptualizing, creating, editing, and printing photographs and will have tons of prints to take home by the end! Essential for anyone thinking of majoring or working as a professional photographer.

Intermediate course that is often described as “Darkroom Bootcamp.” Students start with 35mm film cameras and move quickly into medium format, making analog prints in the darkroom. The class culminates in a mural printing project where each student makes a four-foot hand printed image. Essential for anyone thinking of majoring.

This advanced-level course is perhaps the most technically rigorous. Students learn continuous and strobe lighting inside the studio and on location, then pivot to making black and white photographs with the 4x5 camera. A must for anyone looking for the next level of image control or for those with commercial aspirations.

Photographic printing processes from the earliest days of photography to the latest advances in digital media. Experimentation with photographic materials and play! Students often make 3-D photographic works, mess around with darkroom processes, and bend the rules of photography.

This introduction to the history of photography from its earliest manifestations until the present digital age offers a thematic overview of photography’s contested identity as a medium. Through this course, students are introduced to a broad range of issues and approaches for thinking critically about the medium, including the traditional history and practice of photography as well as more recent critiques that are indebted to concerns around issues of race, ethnicity, globalization, gender, and class.

Intermediate course where students engage with the moving image, think deeply about time, and use sound to create a multi-sensory experience. Lab-based projects include montage, performance, sound as art, animation techniques, projection and installation.

Advanced level critique course for students looking to develop a fully realized, self-proposed body of work over the course of the semester. Photographic techniques and content vary based on the students’ interests and intentions. We also cover photographic theory, introduction to professional practices, careers, ATL art scene, etc.

The BFA program culminates with this critique course which is taken over two successive semesters to conclude the senior year. Students work on self-directed projects and finish an exhibition while also developing their professional practices before entering the real world.