As a Photography and Media Arts major, you'll go beyond creating images to understanding the messages they encode in our highly visual culture. Learn traditional film-based photography in a wet darkroom, then build on the basics by moving to digital imaging. You'll become well versed in both black-and-white and color photography, still and video. You'll learn how to work in a professional studio and take elective courses like documentary photography and photographic book design. And you'll understand, well, the big picture: how the medium and uses of photography have changed over time, and how you can help shape photography's future.