Art: Digital Photography (BA)
Photography plays an ever-increasing role in our visual culture. Playing a major role in journalism, graphic arts as well as fine arts, it has become an integral part of our modern visual language. Whether for journalistic endeavors, advertising, social media, or freelance, digital photography provides commercial jobs for visual artists. The BA Art: Digital Photography degree provides training in all of these areas while allowing students the opportunity to develop other individual arts skills.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
courses | credit hours (ba) |
|---|---|
DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience | 3 |
Developing A Christian Mind DBUE 2301 - Developing a Christian Mind | 3 |
English | 9-10 |
ENGL 1301/1401 - Composition and Rhetoric I ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II and ENGL 2301 - World Literature I or ENGL 2302 - World Literature II | |
Fine Arts FINE 1306 - Introduction to Fine Arts | 3 |
History Lower Level (LL) | 3 |
Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List. | |
Kinesiology | 1 |
KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living | |
Mathematics (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 3-4 hour course from Math LL Course List. | |
Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 3-4 hour course from Nat. Lab Science LL Course List. | |
Religion | 9 |
RELI 1301 - Old Testament Survey RELI 1302 - New Testament Survey and one additional RELI course from RELI Course List. | |
Social Science | 3 |
POLS 2301 - American National Government | |
Total Core Experience | 40-43 |
Additional Program General Education Hours | 14 |
Choose two 4-hour courses in the same language from LANG/BL Language Course List. Choose two additional 3-hour language courses from the list above or from HIST/FA/SS Course List. | |
Art: Digital Photography Major | 48 |
ART 1301 - Design I ART 1303 - Drawing I ART 2050 - Sophomore Portfolio Review ART 2314 - Photography I ART 3314 - Photography II ART 3319 - Visual Communication ART 3321 - Graphic Design I ART 3322 - Graphic Design II ART 3341 - Photography Process and Practice ART 4300 - Portfolio Research ART 4301 - Internship in Art (S-L) ART 4318 - History of Graphic Design I ART 4338 - History of Graphic Design II ART 4341 - Business of Photography ART 4380 - The Arts and the Creative Process COMA 3324 - Video Editing I COMA 3340 - Video Production I | |
Specialization Electives - Choose 15 hours from the following: | 15 |
ART 2303 - Drawing II ART 3303 - Drawing III ART 3304 - Watercolors ART 3305 - Art History I ART 3306 - Art History II ART 3310 - Painting II ART 4303 - Drawing IV ART 4309 - Painting III ART 4310 - Painting IV ART 4321 - Advertising Design (S-L) (Requisite: ART 3322) ART 4327 - Color and Composition ART 4328 - Illustration I ART 4329 - Illustration II ART 4330 - Special Topics in Art COMA 3342 - Video Production II COMA 3350 - Social Media COMA 4304 - Video Editing II MRKT 3303 - Promotional Strategy | |
Electives | |
Upper-Level | 0 |
Lower or Upper-Level | 4 |
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED | 120 |
A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor’s degree is required, including 36 upper-level credit hours.
At least 12 credit hours in the major program must be completed at Dallas Baptist University, including nine upper-level course hours.
Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University: DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0.
(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.
Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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