摄影专业以艺术为重点，对摄影的广度和深度进行了清晰的介绍，以此作为创造性和批判性文化产品的媒介。BFA（摄影）和B.Des。专业摄影专业的平行专业提供补充课程，探讨摄影的技术和创意组成部分，并提供基于问题和基于客户的艺术实践提供不同摄影目的和程序的课程。摄影课程旨在为学生提供一系列的概念和技术技能与知识，使他们能够创作出摄影作品，从而促进文化生产中的当代问题。顺序课程围绕核心目标组织各种概念，这些概念是根据个人艺术兴趣而探索和应用的。用于评估投资组合质量的策略遵循公认的标准。
The Photography concentration has a fine arts focus and offers an articulated introduction to the breadth and depth of photography as a medium of creative and critical cultural production. The B.F.A. Photography concentration and the B.Des. in Professional Photography are parallel majors offer complementary courses that explore technical and creative components of photography, and also provide courses that offer different purposes and procedures of photography as issues-based and client-based art practices.<br>The Photography concentration is designed to equip students with a range of conceptual and technical skills and knowledge that will enable them to create photographic works of art that contribute to contemporary issues in cultural production. The sequential curriculum is organized around core objectives varied concepts that are explored and applied in response to personal artistic interests. Strategies used for evaluating the quality of portfolios follow well-accepted criteria. These includes how well students acquire and apply photographic competencies, how well students solve image-making problems, how well students apply innovative thinking to the process of making photographs, how effectively students apply risk taking such as going beyond the original assignments parameters or tackling controversial ideas, and how effectively they synthesize or transform ideas into new unexpected photographs.<br><br>The main strengths of the Photography program lie in three areas, students, faculty and curriculum. All three areas intersect. Since photography and photographic imaging are components of many disciplines across the arts and sciences, photography classes tend to attract diverse type of students with wide ranges of interest. Our faculty also represents diverse interests and expertise from fine art photography, documentary, technical and commercial image making modes. We have designed our curriculum to take advantage of the strength of the diversity by offering four degree types to accommodate the range of approached to making and studying photography.<br><br>A particular strength of Photography lies in the treatment of various forms of photography we teach as having fine art characteristics. This approach is consistent with photographic history where commercial and fine art approaches to photography often intersect.