Aug 16, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Photography Minor


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Enhance your artistic abilities with a minor in photography.  You’ll develop your technical and aesthetic skills as you study traditional and contemporary artists, practices, and techniques. 

Your studies may include:

*  black and white darkroom photography

*  color digital imaging & printing

*  large format photography

*  studio lighting

*  video

*  the history of photography

 

To declare a Photography Minor, students must be a degree candidate who has earned at least 24 credits, with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 and a minimum 2.5 grade point average in their major.

 

Note: Minors in this concentration may be required to have a laptop.

Note: Students must pass sophomore and/or junior level reviews to moving to advanced level courses.

 

Photography Core Courses (15 credits)

AXD 281 - Introduction to Darkroom Photography - 3 cr

AXD 282 - Introduction to Digital Photography - 3 cr

AXD 308 - Histories of Photography & The Moving Image

AXD 381 - Narratives in Still & Moving Images - 3 cr

AXD 481 - The Photo Book - 3 cr

 

 

And 1 course from the following  (3 credits)

AXD 288 - Photo Processes Printmaking

AXD 382 - Advanced Techniques and Concepts in Photo and Video

AXD 384 - Digital Video Production

AXD 385 - Lighting for Photography

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