ART – PHOTOGRAPHY (AA and Certificate)

The Photography program prepares students for a career in the field and/ or provides continuing education and personal enrichment opportunities. The program is committed to a broad definition of photography as a lens-based medium open to a variety of expressive means.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the program, students will have demonstrated the ability to:

• Define subject and compose image using frame and vantage point.
• Control and manipulate light, depth of field, and motion.
• Create prints from film or digital source and control print contrast, tonal range, and color.
• Articulate the meaning of photographs and learn how meaning is visually communicated.
• Create a cohesive body of exhibition-quality work that collectively explores an idea or concept and be able to explain the significance of subject, form, presentation, and meaning.
• Analyze and interpret human thought, achievement, and expression relevant to such branches of knowledge as philosophy, literature, and/or the fine and performing arts, and to communicate the results.

Certificate of Achievement

Associate in Arts

Complete Major, CSU General Education or IGETC Pattern, Competency Requirements, and 60 transferable units.

* Does not transfer to UC.