BFA • Photography Track

The BFA degree is the nationally accepted professional degrees in art and design. These degrees carry a high level of expected growth and involvement on the student’s part. BFA students are not required to earn a minor outside of art and design, so spend more time studying in studios. Upon completion of 60 semester hours* in the university and 27 semester hours in art, majors who intend to apply for admission to the BFA degree option should register for ART 297 Portfolio Review. ART 297 Portfolio Review is the mechanism for faculty to review student portfolios so they may be admitted into the BFA program. All BFA majors are guaranteed a senior exhibition at NKU.

Minor • Photography

The minor in photography is meant to give students an introduction to understanding photography. Students take a condensed version of the art foundations core along with introductory and advanced photography courses.

Through in-class demonstrations, students will learn the following technical skills:

• digital camera operation and control
• electronic flash operation, studio lighting, location techniques
• processing, organizing, compositing, and printing digital files
• mounting and matting photographic prints
• writing a research paper and creating a presentation

Through lectures and in-class critiques, students will learn the following conceptual elements:

• concepts in fine art photography including historic and contemporary practices
• the difference between the way things look in reality and the way it appears and takes on meaning as a photographic image
• a conceptual framework for looking at, talking about, and creating photographs
• how to edit a group of images to be presented as a portfolio
• communication of ideas through still imagery
• personal interests within the medium