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Art: Digital Photography (BS)

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 BS 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 (bS)

CORE EXPERIENCE

DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience

3

Developing A Christian Mind

DBUE 2301 - Developing a Christian Mind

3

English

9

ENGL 1301 - 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 HIST Lower Level (LL)

3

Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List.

Kinesiology

KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living

1

Mathematics (3-4 hour LL course)

3

Choose one 3-hour course from Math LL Course List.

Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course)

4

Choose one 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

41

Additional Program General Education Hours

11

Choose two 4-hour courses from Nat. Lab Science LL Course List.

Choose one 3-4 hour course from STEM LL Course List.

Art: Digital Photography Major 

54

ART 1301 - Design I

ART 1303 - Drawing I

ART 2050 - Sophomore Portfolio Review

ART 2303 - Drawing II

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 4328 - Illustration 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 12 hours from 12

the following:

ART 3303 - Drawing II

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)

ART 4327 - Color and Composition

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

2

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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