Parallels the first two years of most four-year institutions offering a major in Photography. Students must provide for their own use the following equipment: digital camera (of design approved by instructor), light meter, flash unit and tripod.
Program Requirements
General Education Requirements (42 Semester Hours)
Communication – 9 Hours
Speech
ENGL 1301 – Freshman Composition I
ENGL 1302 – Freshman Composition II
Social/Behavioral Sciences – 15 Hours
Social/Behavioral Science
GOVT 2305 – Government of the United States
GOVT 2306 – Government of Texas
HIST 1301 – History of the United States I
HIST 1302 – History of the United States II

Parallels the first two years of most four-year institutions offering a major in Photography. Students must provide for their own use the following equipment: digital camera (of design approved by instructor), light meter, flash unit and tripod.
Program Requirements
General Education Requirements (42 Semester Hours)
Communication – 9 Hours
Speech
ENGL 1301 – Freshman Composition I
ENGL 1302 – Freshman Composition II
Social/Behavioral Sciences – 15 Hours
Social/Behavioral Science
GOVT 2305 – Government of the United States
GOVT 2306 – Government of Texas
HIST 1301 – History of the United States I
HIST 1302 – History of the United States II
Humanities – 3 Hours
Humanities
Fine Arts – 3 Hours
Fine Arts
Mathematics – 3 Hours
Mathematics
Natural Sciences – 8 Hours
Natural Sciences
Lifetime Fitness – 1 Hour
Lifetime Fitness
Major Course Requirements (9 Semester Hours)
ARTS 2356 – Fundamentals of Photography I
ARTS 2357 – Fundamentals of Photography II
DRAM 2366 – Introduction to Film
Recommended Courses (12 Semester Hours)

Students will be advised for other courses based on the university to which they plan to transfer.

Certificate(s)
Certificate in Photography 4407 CT.PHOT

Employment Concentration Certificate(s)
Digital Imaging Entrepreneur 99999 ECC.PHOT.DIE
Digital Imaging Technician 99999 ECC.PHOT.DIT
Photography for Digital Video 99999 ECC.PHOT.DIGVID
Photography for Graphic Design 99999 ECC.PHOT.GRAPDES
Web-Based Digital Imaging 99999 ECC.PHOT.WEBDI
San Jacinto Campus
(951) 487-MSJC (6752)
1-800-624-5561
Keith Hanz (951) 487-3346
khanz@msjc.edu

Department Web Site
www.msjc.edu/photography

Program Description

The MSJC Photography program offers students comprehensive and forward-thinking learning opportunities that respond to new-media industry standards with an emphasis on the digital photography paradigm. MSJC photography students can choose which path of creative and technical study fulfills their particular needs by selecting AS Degree, Certificate or Employment Concentrations. These versatile paths of study offer intensive and extensive technical instruction in addition to creative production guidance for students gathering contemporary photographic skill sets. Traditional chemistry-based darkroom curriculum offers students a historical and creative reference for those preparing for both transfer and the new-media challenges that pervade the contemporary photographic industry as well. The career-oriented student will study the ubiquitous nature of photographic visual communication while immersing themselves in the indispensable design, acquisition, manipulation, and output of photographic imagery in our industry and society.
Distinctive Features

The digital fixing of the photographic image with electronic light sensors and computer software rivals milestones in history like the invention of paper, the printing press, or chemistry-based image fixing. Extinct is hand calligraphy in advertising, illuminated manuscripts in printing or the emulsion based image on tin, for example. Emulsion-based photography is methodically giving way to a digital era in image production – an evolution akin to dinosaurs evolving into birds – only faster. For these reasons a versatile and truly state-of-the-art digital studio, light room, and imaging lab has been designed to facilitate the photography department’s industry-responsive digital curriculum. Beginning through advanced students will avail themselves of a 1,325 square foot digital still/video imaging studio with high ceilings and versatile photographic environments – all networked to a digital light room and other adjoining learning facilities. Traditional historical black and white darkroom equipment and procedures still offer students a creative and practical reference in the MSJC photography department as well. Students will benefit from hands-on exposure to real-world tools. These tools are fast, high-resolution capture, manipulation, and output devices that will allow students to explore all aspects and categories of the photographic realm including, studio photography, field photography, photographic lighting, camera and image acquisition, software and hardware, professional large format output, and specialized applications like image stitching software/hardware or time-lapse intervalometers.
Career Opportunities

The following are opportunities for digital photography students to apply skills learned and developed in our digital program to internship, direct employment or entrepreneurship. Digital Imager/Photographer * Web Photocontent producer/designer * Multimedia content producer, CDR/DVD * Digital Imaging software specialist * Quicktime VR/IPIX/video specialist * CSI imaging specialist * Photo/Studio entrepreneur * Digital Artist * Photographic art director and/or producer

Studio and location Photographer:
Commercial/Industrial
Stock production
Studio and Location Portraiture
Wedding/Ceremony
Sports/Action
Architectural/Landscape
Photo-Restoration/Enhancement
Fashion/Advertising
Photojournalism
Fine Art/Archivist
Photo/Videography
Transfer Preparation

MSJC offers a range of course work to prepare students to transfer to four-year colleges and universities. All four–year institutions prescribe their own standards for course evaluation and admissions. Prospective transfer students are advised to review the MSJC catalog with a counselor to determine which MSJC courses are transferable.
Degree

The major requirement for an Associate of Science degree in Photography may be met by completing the core photography curriculum and any electives totaling 18 units and meeting all other MSJC General Education Option A requirements.