Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, is home to the Sam Fox School. The Sam Fox School offers a bachelor of fine arts degree program in digital imaging and photography. Students experience photography through history, technique and contemporary critical theory. Coursework includes digital photography, nonsilver techniques, documentary work and studio photography. Students in their junior year work intensely in the studio, which leads to directed independent research and senior thesis portfolio in the final year of the program.
New York's Parsons the New School for Design offers a bachelor of fine arts degree program in photography. Students explore and create many bodies of work using digital and analog photography within their chosen concentration. Concentrations include fashion, editorial and commercial photography. There are also courses available in photo editing and art buying, directing and curating. Students gain real-world experience through photography internships.
The Brooks Institute is a visual arts school in Santa Barbara, California. Students can pursue professional photography degrees in advertising, portraiture, commercial and photo media. The degrees awarded are bachelor's of fine arts in professional photography and master's of fine art in photography. The Brooks Institute aims to prepare students for careers in photography through internships and hands-on training. A certificate program in wedding photography is also available.
Chicago's American Academy of Art offers bachelor of fine arts degree programs in a variety of areas. The eight-semester photography program provides students with insight into both fine art and commercial photography through photography studio experience and classes in areas such as Web design and drawing. Students are evaluated on the basis of their use of photographic techniques and tools and their application of compositional elements in three-dimensional space. Students compile a portfolio throughout the course of the program and design and implement a website to display their work as a final project.
Colorado's Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design offers students the opportunity to pursue a bachelor of fine arts in photography and video art. The curriculum is designed to give students all of the necessary information for both film and digital photography. It takes 120 credits to graduate. The coursework for this program consists of fine arts core courses, photography and video art courses, studio electives and general liberal arts courses. Examples of classes are form and content, digital color photography, art history and motion design for visual artists.