Art Photography BFA at Arizona State University
Program Description
The photography program at ASU has earned an international reputation for the quality of its instruction and the broad range of course work offered. Students study the medium of photography as a means toward the creation of art and toward visual literacy. This involves the acquisition of technical skills, the development of a sound theoretical base and an immersion in photography’s history. Course work encompasses critiques of creative work, beginning and advanced criticism and theory, practice in gallery management as well as practice in black and white, color, digital, large format, portraiture and 19th-century processes.
Additional Program Fee: No
Second Language Requirement: No
Career Opportunities
A degree in the arts offers students a pathway to a rich and varied choice of careers. The B.F.A. is essential for advanced study leading to the terminal M.F.A. This advanced degree offers opportunities in university teaching, in history or studio areas, curatorial work in galleries, museums and historical collections and nonprofit arts organization management.
Admission Requirements
Students will be admitted to ASU as art exploratory majors. They must complete a series of requirements including successfully passing a portfolio review in order to be eligible for upper-division course work in the major.
Freshmen students applying to the Herberger College School of Art enter ASU as pre-art majors in the School of Art. There is no portfolio review process at the time of admission to ASU for freshmen.
Typically students in their second year interested in studio art and art education will submit a portfolio for review once they have completed their core requirements and are completing the last of the 12 hours of 200-level art requirements; or if they are interested in art history or museum studies, they will submit a declaration form in the semester in which they complete 30 hours.
Transfer students who have completed the foundational core and pre-art requirements may submit a portfolio for review before they have been admitted to ASU. To complete an undergraduate degree in four years, it is recommended that community college transfer students, who are completing a two year degree and have completed the foundational core and pre-art requirements apply and submit a portfolio in the semester they are completing their community college degree or the semester before they plan to enter Arizona State University.
Direct transfer of courses from other accredited institutions to the Katherine K. Herberger College of the Arts are subject to:
the existence of parallel and equal courses in the college’s curriculum, and
departmental or school evaluation of studio courses with respect to performance standards.
Every candidate for the bachelor’s degree must earn a minimum of 30 semester hours in resident credit at ASU. Transfer students enrolled in the college must complete a minimum of 15 semester hours of resident credit in the major as approved by the faculty.