Austin Community College

FY 2000 Degree Plan

This program provides learning experience in theory, laboratory, and studio work in portrait and commercial photography for job entry in studios and color labs. Assignments include portraiture of men, women, children, and groups in studio and on location using electronic flash or natural light. Assignments also include photography of products, architecture, and fashions. Supporting skills in processing films, making prints by contact and enlarging, retouching prints and negatives, and drymounting are included. Graduates of this program qualify for jobs as photographer's assistants, laboratory workers, studio managers or owners.

Semester I

+	PHO	1014		Intermediate Photography	4
+	PHO	1034		Darkroom Technology I	4
+	PHO	1053		Retouching Prints and Negatives	3
+	GRPH	1422		Electronic Publishing I	4
+	ENGL	1301	1,3,4,5	English Composition I	3
					------- 18

Semester II

	PHO	1024		Commercial Photography	4
+	PHO	1044		Darkroom Technology II	4
+	CAT	1043		Commercial Art History	3
	BUSG	2309		Small Business Management	3
	MATH			Elective1	3-4
					------- 17-18

Semester III

	PHO	2014		Advertising and Fashion Photography OR
+	PHO	2034		Advanced Portraiture	4
+	PHO	1044		Darkroom Technology II	4
+	PHO	2064		Studio Management	4
+	PHO	1164		Photo Computer Imaging I	4
					------- 16

Semester IV

+	PHO	2073		Competency Course	3
+	PSYC	2315		Psychology of Adjustment	3
	SPCH	1311	1,2,3,4,5,6	Introduction to Speech Communication OR
	TCM	1603		Introduction to Technical Writing	3
				Gen. Ed course in Social & Behavioral Science	3
+	PHO	2153		Creative Camera	3
	PHOT			Elective2	4
					------- 19
				TOTALS	------- 70-71

+ Prerequisites: See Course Descriptions
¹ Select from approved Math Courses in General education Core Curriculum course list.
² Suggest PHO 2044, 2084.
³ Minor variations desirable for student career goals may be accomplished, within college policies, by approval of the Program Coordinator.

Students successfully completing this program are prepared for careers as photographic retouchers, print finishers, and print colorists, print restorers, and print copiers, and can perform the duties of a photographer's assistant in simple portrait and product photography, film processing, and print making. Job opportunities are found in studios, color labs, archives, and the film animation industry. The sit-down nature of much of the program makes the training ideally suited for the mobility impaired. Trainees should have good artistic sense, creative ability, fine visual acuity, accurate color perception, and excellent eye-hand coordination. Employment opportunities are considered to be above average.

Semester I

+	PHO	1073		Fundamentals of Photography	3
	PHO	1053		Retouching Prints and Negatives	3
+	PHO	1164		Photo Computer Imaging I	4
+	ENGL	1301	1,3,4,5	English Composition I	3
	GRPH	1422		Electronic Publishing I	4
					------- 17

Semester II

+	PHO	2164		Photo Computer Imaging II	4
+	PHO	1053		Retouching Prints and Negatives2	3
					------- 7

Semester III

+	PHO	1014		Intermediate Photography	4
+	PHO	1034		Darkroom Technology I	4
+	PHO	2264		Photo Computer Imaging III	4
	PHOT			Elective1	3-4
					------- 15-16
				TOTALS	------- 39-40

+ Prerequisites: See Course Descriptions
¹ PHO 2153 or any relevant subject
² May be repeated at higher level for credit.