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PHOTOGRAPHY

College of Arts and Letters

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Bachelor of Arts in Photography is a joint major that prepares students to enter one of the exciting professional photographic fields. By combining courses from the Art Department and the Department of Design, as well as support classes in Journalism and Business, the program equips students aesthetically, technically, and professionally for a future in photography. The program has a curricular emphasis on the visual arts, integrating areas that are particularly valuable to those considering a professional photographic career or continuing in a graduate program. The major is structured to provide students with the skills and understanding to enable them to create images that will stand out among the profusion of photographs in the commercial, editorial, or fine art arenas.

Special Features

• Sacramento State is uniquely positioned to offer students strong photographic curricula, internships, and professional connections. Because of its location in the state capital, students may complete fieldwork with state agencies, museums, professional associations, and news organizations.
• Two campus galleries regularly exhibit student work: the Design Gallery on the 4th floor of Mariposa Hall and the Witt Gallery in Kadema Hall.
• The Departments of Art and of Design both offer student scholarships.
• Among the facilities available for photography students is a large digital lab furnished with Macintosh computers, Epson printers, film, and flat bed scanners. There is also an alternative process lab for platinum/palladium printing, a well equipped darkroom with 4x5 black and white and color enlarging stations, a Hope 20" color print processor, Wing Lynch film processor, and studio shooting facilities.
  

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

Requirements - Bachelor of Arts Degree

Units Required for the Major: 48 units
Minimum total units required for the BA: 120

Courses in parentheses are prerequisites.

A. Required Lower Division Core Courses (15 units)

(3)	ART 1B	Art in the Western World: From Renaissance to Present
(3)	GPHD 10	Introduction to Digital Design
(3)	INTD 20	Design
(3)	PHOT 11	Digital Imaging
(3)	PHOT 40	Basic Techniques of Photography

B. Required Upper Division Core Courses (24 units)

(3)	ART 101	Art Photography
(3)	ART 161	Photography in the Field (PHOT 40 or equivalent)
(3)	ART 162	Alternative Photographic Processes (PHOT 141 or other basic photography)
(3)	PHOT 102	Photography, a Social History
(3)	PHOT 111	Intermediate Digital Imaging (PHOT 11 or equivalent or instructor permission)
(3)	PHOT 141	Intermediate Photography, Black and White (PHOT 40)
(3)	PHOT 148	Artificial Light Photography (PHOT 111 and PHOT 141 or equivalent or instructor permission)
(3)	PHOT 150	Senior Portfolio (Senior status, PHOT 11, PHOT 138, PHOT 143A, PHOT 148)

C. Studies in Photography Electives (9 units)

(9) Select three of the following:

	ART 108	19th Century Art (ART 1B or equivalent)
	ART 109	Modern Art (Upper-division standing and ART 1B or equivalent with instructor approval)
	ART 169	Photography Studio (Instructor permission and Department Chair via signed petition form)
	ART 163	Pinhole Photography (PHOT 40 or equivalent)
	COMS 164	Visual Communication (COMS 100A and COMS 100B or equivalent with a grade of C- or better)
	HRS 180	The Film
	JOUR 197A	Journalism Laboratory (JOUR 30)
	MKTG 101	Principles of Marketing
	PHOT 135	Introduction to Photojournalism (PHOT 40 or equivalent)
	PHOT 138	Color Photography A (PHOT 11 or equivalent)
	PHOT 143A	Intermediate Photography, Color (PHOT 40)
	PHOT 155	Advanced Photography (PHOT 141)
	PHOT 160	Documentary Photography (PHOT 141)
	PHOT 195	Internship in Photography (A minimum of two upper division photography courses)
	PHOT 199	Special Problems

Career Possibilities

Photojournalist · Advertising Photographer · Editorial Photographer · Medical Photographer · Educator · Wedding Photographer · Portrait Photographer · Forensic Photographer · Military Photographer · Public Relations · Fashion Photographer · Wildlife Photographer · Stock Photographer · Archaeological Photographer · Photographic Historian · Freelance Photographer · Commercial Photographer · Food Photographer · Architectural Photographer · Videographer · Landscape Photographer

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