***NOTE: for a more detailed copy of specific major requirements, download the Detailed Major Requirements PDF under Related Links.
Studio Classes
Classes entering Fall 2005
Area I: 40 credits (minimum)
required courses
Freshman Year:
Photography & Imaging I
Photography & Imaging II
Visual Thinking
Sophomore Year:
Photography & Imaging III
Screen-based Projects (optional)
Senior Year:
Senior Directed Projects (Fall)
Additional courses must be taken to bring cumulative points to a minimum of 40.
History and Criticism Classes
Area II: 24 credits (minimum)
required courses
Freshman Year:
Culture, History, Imaging & Photography Studies
Sophomore Year:
The Social History of Photography
The Aesthetic History of Photography
Junior Year:
1 Critical Studies
Junior/Senior Year:
1 Advanced History Seminar
Liberal Arts Classes
Area III: 44 credits (minimum)
required courses
Freshman Year:
Two-course Expository Writing Sequence: Art and the World / The World through through Art
Soph/Jr/Sr Years:
Language and Literature: 4-8 points
1 Literature or 2 semesters of the same language
Humanities: 4 points
History of Western Art II in the Fine Arts Dept. A second Art History course is highly recommended.
Social Science: 4 points
1 course (i.e. Anthropology, Economics, Politics, Psychology, Sociology.)
Natural Sciences/Mathematics: 4 points
1 course (i.e. Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Compuer Science.)
Additional Liberal Arts from any of the above to bring cumulative points to a minimum of 44.
Electives
Area IV: Credits to bring cumulative total to 128 points.
