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2024-2025 General Catalog
Photography, AAS
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The Photography Program at Iowa Central prepares students for a wide range of exciting, distinguished careers as creative, innovative leaders in the photography industry. The program consists of building a strong foundation in commercial photography, fine art photography, and portraiture by exploring theory and practice. Students develop proficiency in digital and analog photography from capture through print and digital presentation. Along their learning pathway, students receive hands-on experience in studio lighting, black and white processing, basic video production and editing, alternative processes, and presentation practices. Focus will be placed on establishing an authentic personal brand utilizing a wide range of business and marketing strategies.
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Our faculty and staff consist of experienced professionals who create an environment that encourages creativity, technical aptitude and critical thinking. The Photography Program is devoted not only to the refinement of visual skills, but to the cultivation of the mind. In addition to teaching technical skills and artistic design, the program stresses positive work habits and helps students develop personal style and career goals. Our objective is to successfully educate and graduate professional image makers with the technical, theoretical, artistic and business skills necessary for their success. Upon completion of our program, graduates can expect to open their own business, freelance, or fill employment positions in the marketplace of today’s ever-changing professional imaging industry.
Enrollment Date: Fall Semester, Spring Semester with Instructor Approval
Minimum Required Credits: 61
Campus: Fort Dodge
Department: Career and Technical Education
CIP#: 50.04060200
Approved: 03/12/2020
Program Outcomes:
- Develop knowledge of principles of aesthetics and visual communication and integrate these principles creatively in still and motion based images and in new media storytelling.
- Establish a thorough and adaptable knowledge of software used in digital imaging and new media storytelling.
- Construct a complete digital imaging workflow that includes capture, post processing, ethical considerations of digital techniques based on genre and asset management techniques from image capture to image archive.
- Demonstrate thorough knowledge and application of DSLR and analog camera techniques for capture of both still, time and video based imagery while applying effective lighting techniques in natural, artificial and mixed lighting in a variety of photographic areas including product, still life and portraiture.
- Compute an understanding of professional practices, communications, organizations and career opportunities in the field of professional photography. This will be demonstrated by creating a professional body of work and appropriate support material such as website and marketing materials, to showcase personal vision and technical skills.
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AAS Degree Total Hours: 61
Footnotes for Degree Requirements:
1 Required general education course.
2 Required elective course.
3 Institutional requirement.
4 May be substituted with a course from the same category on the General Education Course List .
Non-Discrimination Policy
It is the policy of Iowa Central Community College not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age (employment), sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, religion, and actual or potential parental, family or marital status in its programs, activities, or employment practices as required by the Iowa Code §§ 216.6 and 216.9, Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d and 2000e), the Equal Pay Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 206, et seq.), Title IX (Educational Amendments, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 - 1688), Section 504 (Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794), Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (34 CFR Part 110), and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq.).
If you have questions or complaints related to compliance with this policy, please contact Stacy Ihrig, Vice President of Human Resources, One Triton Circle, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 50501, Telephone: (515)-5741138, Email: concerns@iowacentral.edu, or the Director of the Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Education, John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn Street, 37th Floor, Chicago, IL 606047204, Telephone: (312) 730-1560, Facsimile: (312) 730-1576, TDD 800-877-8339 Email: OCR.Chicago@ed.gov.
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