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Important:

  • Students are no longer accepted into this program as of June 5, 2024.
  • Students currently enrolled in this program are asked to contact their department chair for a teach-out plan.

The Visual Arts and New Media: Photography, B.F.A. degree is designed to give students a thorough knowledge of the medium, including historical and aesthetic concerns, as well as experience with conventional, experimental and digital photography. The program relates to all the other areas in the department by emphasizing inter-media applications through the combination of photographic images or electronic output with the traditional materials associated with drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics to encourage communication and understanding across the disciplines. The intent is to conceptualize ideas by using the medium of photography and related practices.

The State University of New York at Fredonia is committed to doing our part to provide each student a clear path to graduation. This four-year degree plan is a sample map for fulfilling requirements in the major, the Fredonia Foundations (FF), and other supporting courses. The pathway that you take to your degree may differ somewhat from this illustration, depending on where you start and the detours and side trips you may take along the way. If you are committed to completing your degree in four years, we encourage you to consider signing up for the Fredonia in 4 program. For complete information about this degree program, please consult the university catalog at www.fredonia.edu/catalog

Sample Degree Plan

First Year

Fall Semester

Course Title Credits
ART 100 Visual Concepts 3
ARTS 102 Foundations in 2D Form and Content 3
ARTS 159 Photographic Explorations 3
FF Course 3
FF Course 3
ART 120 Visiting Artist Program 1
TOTAL 16

Spring Semester

Course Title Credits
ARTS 105,221,222,225,240, or 270 3
ARTS 156 Intro to Digital Photography 3
ARTH 101 Art in Culture From Prehistory to 1400 3
FF Course 3
FF Course 3
ART 120 Visiting Artist Program 1
TOTAL 16

Second Year

Fall Semester

Course Title Credits
ARTH 101 Art in Culture From 1400 to the Present 3
ARTS 105,221,222,225,240 or 270 3
ARTS 255 Color and Light 3
ART 120 Visiting Artist Program 1
FF Course 3
FF Course 3
TOTAL 16

Spring Semester

Course Title Credits
ARTH xxx Art History Elective 3
ARTS 250 Lighting Technique 3
ARTS 105,221,222,225,240 or 270 3
ART 120 Visiting Artist Program 1
FF Course 3
FF Course 3
TOTAL 16

Third Year

Fall Semester

Course Title Credits
ARTS 155 Intro to Film Photography 3
ARTS 352 Studio Lighting 3
ARTS Elective 3
ART 120 Visiting Artist Program 1
FF Course 3
FF Course 3
 
TOTAL 16

Spring Semester

Course Title Credits
ARTS 355 Digital Imaging (or) 3
ARTS 356 Photographic Narrative
ARTS 353 Photographic Illustration 3
ARTS Studio Elective 3
ARTH xxx Art History Elective 3
ART 120 Visiting Artist Program 1
 
TOTAL 13

Fourth Year

Fall Semester

Course Title Credits
ARTS 459 Photographic Inquiry 3
ARTS Studio Elective 3
General Elective 3
General Elective 3
ART 120 Visiting Artist Program 1
 
TOTAL 13

Spring Semester

Course Title Credits
ARTS 496 Studio Art Internship 3
ARTS Studio Elective 3
ARTS Studio Elective 3
ARTS 400 Senior Seminar 1
ART 120 Visiting Artist Program 1
General Elective 3
TOTAL 14

GRAND TOTAL: 120

This Sample Degree Map is based on the requirements published in the University Catalog.

Visual Arts and New Media

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