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The BFA in Photography provides a strong technical understanding of all aspects of digital and analog photography while encouraging conceptual thinking, innovation, and experimentation. Emphasis is placed on the development of a personal and unique artistic voice while considering the role photography plays as a powerful means of communication. Various special topics courses and workshops provide students with experiences in a wide range of photographic genres.

Major Requirements

A total of 76 semester hours: 32 semester hours of lower division courses and 44 semesters hours of upper division courses.

  • 32 semester hours of lower division courses: 24 semester hours of Studio Arts and 8 semester hours of Art History.

    Studio Arts Foundations

    • ART 1001 Foundation I 4 semester hours
    • ART 1002 Foundation II 4 semester hours
    • ART 1003 Foundation III 4 semester hours
    • ART 1010 Freshman Workshop in Studio Arts 2 semester hours

    Photography Lower Division Requirements

    • ART 1020 Portfolio Workshop in Studio Art 2 semester hours
    • ART 2880 Photography I: Darkroom 4 semester hours
    • ART 2881 Photography Digital 4 semester hours
    • ARHS 2002 Art and Society: Early Christian to Early Modern 4 semester hours
    • ARHS 2004 Modernism 4 semester hours
  • 44 semester hours of upper division courses: 36 semester hours of Studio Arts and 8 semester hours of Art History.

    • ART 3587 Silkscreen Printmaking 4 semester hours
    • ART 3597 Professional Practices in Fine Arts 2 semester hours
    • ART 3767 Online Computer Arts 4 semester hours
    • ART 3880 Photography II 4 semester hours
    • ART 3879 Photography Special Topic 4 semester hours
    • ART 3889 Photography Workshop 2 semester hours
    • ART 4880 Color Photography 4 semester hours
    • ART 3xxx or 4xxx Upper Division art electives 8 semester hours
    • ART 4950 Senior Thesis in Fine Arts 4 semester hours
    • ARHS 3540 Social/Aesthetic History of Photography 4 semester hours
    • ARHS Non-Western elective 4 semester hours
      Choose one class from:
      • ARHS 3311 Pre-Columbian Art 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 3331 Arts of Africa 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 3341 Arts of Islam 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 3351 Arts of Asia 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4301 Arts of India 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4303 Arts of China 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4305 Arts of Southeast Asia 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4307 Arts of Japan 4 semester hours or
      • ARHS 4998 Special Studies 4 semester hours (if a non-Western topic is to be studied)