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Photography Degrees & Certificates

Associate Degrees


Photography – A.A. Degree

The A.A. Degree in Photography prepares students for careers as commercial photographers. The program provides the visual literacy, language, and skills required within the photography industry and serves as a foundation for continued education at 4-year institutions. The program moves sequentially through foundational digital capture and processing to design courses, finishing with professionally oriented studio classes.

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:
1. Model professional and ethical behavior while communicating with clients, management, and team members.
2. Demonstrate technical problem solving skills to determine the best solutions to creative challenges.
3. Demonstrate technical proficiency and application of photographic skills.

This program prepares for employment in commercial, industrial, technical, and scientific photographic fields.
Intermediate and advanced classes emphasize the digital process prevalent in the industry. Film applications are
also supported throughout the curriculum in support of the arts.


Certificate Of Achievement


Photography – Certificate Of Achievement

The Certificate of Achievement in Photography prepares students for careers as commercial photographers. The program provides the visual literacy, language, and skills required within the photography industry. It serves as a foundation for continued education at 4-year institutions. The program moves sequentially through a foundational digital capture and processing to design courses, finishing with professionally oriented studioclasses.

The Photo Certificate published in the 2023-24 Laney Catalogue is in error. This one is the official version as of January 2024.

 

Course # Course Title Core Units
Core Units Required 21
P20 Photojournalism I 3
P25 Looking at Images: History & Aesthetics of
Photography
3
P71 Introduction to Digital Photography 3
P30 Beginning Photographic Art & Design 3
P74A Introduction to Professional Photography 3
P75A Intermediate Professional Photography 3
P76A Advanced Professional Photography 3
Elective Units Required 3
P11 Introduction to Black/White Film Photography 3
P12 Intermediate Black & White Darkroom Printing 3
P13 Creative Darkroom: Alternative Processes 3
P21 Photojournalism II 3
P30B Intermediate Photographic Art & Design 3
P30C Advanced Photographic Art & Design 3
P72 Intermediate Digital Photography 3
P74B Introduction to Professional Photography 3
P75B Intermediate Professional Photography 3
P76B Advanced Professional Photography 3
P180 HDSLR Workflow for Digital Photography and
Cinematography
3
P182 Introduction to Lighting for Video and Video
Equipped DSLR
3
Total Units Required 24

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:
1. Model professional and ethical behavior while communicating with clients, management, and team members.
2. Demonstrate technical problem solving skills to determine the best solutions to creative challenges.
3. Demonstrate technical proficiency and application of photographic skills.

This program prepares you for employment in the commercial, industrial, technical, and scientific photographic
fields. Intermediate and advanced classes emphasize the digital process prevalent in the industry.


Certificates Of Proficiency

The Laney Photo Department believe that it is important to recognize significant performances of several types. We offer Photography Certificates of Proficiency in Professional Lighting, Photographic Fundamentals, and the Darkroom Photography, each for 9 units (3-3unit classes) within each respective division.


Professional Lighting – Certificate of Proficiency

The classes in this program work to a professional level. They build an expanded awareness of light and its properties with a full variety of sources such as available light, strobe, and continuous electronic appliances. You will build a familiarity with adjunctive grip equipment, and set building in the Studio and on location with their selected application to a highly complex state. You will be exposed to the business skills and methods needed to work at a professional level.

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:
1. Model professional and ethical behavior while communicating with clients, management, and team members.
2. Demonstrate technical problem solving skills to determine the best solutions to creative challenges.
3. Demonstrate technical proficiency and application of photographic skills.

This program prepares for employment in commercial, industrial, technical, art and scientific photographic fields.
Professional lighting classes emphasize the digital process prevalent in the industry.


Photographic Foundations – Certificate of Proficiency

The Photo Foundations Certificate of Achievement is designed to recognize students’ work in the principles of digital capture and composition and aesthetics with Available, Continuous, and Strobe/Speedlight sources.  It will take you through processing and image enrichment.  It will provide opportunity to create and capture lighting schemes for skill achievement and portfolio development.

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:
1. Model professional and ethical behavior while communicating with clients, management, and team members.
2. Demonstrate technical problem solving skills to determine the best solutions to creative challenges.
3. Demonstrate technical proficiency and application of photographic skills.

Event, Portraiture, small set product photography, Art Copy WorkPhotographic foundations degree requirementsPhotographic foundations degree requirements


Darkroom Photography – Certificate of Proficiency

The Certificate of Proficiency in Darkroom Photography is designed to instruct students in the principles of traditional darkroom film and provide opportunity for skill achievement and portfolio development. Darkroom
students shoot and process black and white film, print in the darkroom and learn historic alternative processes.

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate proficiency in the black and white medium.
2. Analyze traditional photography for aesthetic presentation.
3. Create a working portfolio of traditional photography.

Career opportunities available include specialized film printer, visual artist, photo book artist, photography
workshop instructor, photographic restorer.