PLO 1: Essential Skills & Competencies
Graduates will be able to:
- Ensure technical proficiency that is aligned with aesthetic and theoretical understanding and fluency in the visual vocabulary of photography:
- Demonstrate excellence in image-making techniques across analog, digital, still and motion media platforms
- Able to utilize a variety of technology to achieve specific outcomes within their image-making
- Able to problem solve in a wide variety of situations - to think on their feet
PLO 2: Technique: Quality of Execution
Graduates will be able to:
- Become experts in the execution of their craft
- Combine excellent technical skills with strong conceptual ideation
- Knowledgeable about methods, materials and techniques
- Photo-based technical proficiency (darkroom, cameras, lights)
- Digital Software proficiency (Digital lab, Adobe suite, web, apps)
- Practice process as a deliberate component of the final photographic image
PLO 3: Conceptual Development and Critical Thinking
Graduates will be able to:
- Encourage original and individual style through a curriculum based in inquiry, exercise and process
- Aware of their own creative potential
PLO 4: Professional Practice
Graduates will be able to:
- Develop awareness and competency in self-promotion, marketing and the business of photography with strategic and tactical planning for a life-long career
PLO 5: Innovation & Cultural Literacy
Graduates will be able to:
- Build leaders, partners and innovators in the medium of photography