Our Mission:
The Photography minor provides students the opportunity to explore the technical,
formal, historical, theoretical, and ethical concerns of fine art, commercial, and
editorial photography. A variety of traditional, experimental, darkroom and digital
approaches are explored as students develop their individual representational languages.
Participating Departments:
Animation
Animation: Motion Design
Fashion
Game and Entertainment Design
Graphic Design
Illustration
Product Design
Toy Design
Photography minors will only participate in the Annual Exhibition of their home department, however, depending on space availability, they may utilize Fine Arts Senior Studios on a case-by-case basis with approval from the Department Chair.
Program Learning Outcomes
Otis College Interdisciplinary Studies: Photography Minor Program Learning Outcomes are action words describing our approach to learning, and what we commit to our students.
Photography Minor Students Will:
Photography Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Disciplinary knowledge and skills • Audience-focused research, historical context, and field-specific discourse • Proficiency
in industry-standard skills, technologies, and processes
Proficient knowledge and skills in the historical, technical, formal, and conceptual approaches to photography and lens based media (fine art, editorial, commercial, moving images, etc.), including using an SLR camera, considerations of lighting and composition, and printing with analog and digital processes. - Cross-disciplinary awareness and practice
Developed practice grounded in two or more disciplines. - Capacity to identify and solve creative problems
Ability to define issues and to use their artistic skills to give those issues a form that others can engage and interact with.
Photography Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Innovation • Experimentation and play • Challenge to the status quo • Bravery in their
work and their interactions with others
Capacity to combine aspects of photography with work in one's major and/or push the boundaries between each field.
Photography Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Capacity to communicate (orally, written, and/or visually) about their practice
Ability to clearly articulate the relationship between their work in photography and their major and how these studies will help them achieve personal and professional goals.
- Analysis of both ethical and aesthetic impacts of art and design
Particularly the impact their work has on their fields of study as well as society, culture and the environment.
Photography Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Awareness of positionality – in the world, their field, their communities. • Integration
of skills and concepts:
Successful integration of skills, information and concepts between their majors and Photography minor, while understanding and articulating their positionality in their chosen fields.
Photography Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Ability to define aspirations, future goals and their role within the creative economy
Defined aspirations, future goals and their role as an interdisciplinary creative within the creative economy. - Awareness of audience • Compelling presentation and exhibition skills, through Annual
Exhibition, Capstone, and portfolios.
Successful completion and presentation of original work in photography, with or without other media, that resonates with intended audiences.
Course Requirements
15 credits in Photogarphy and related courses are required to complete this minor. This can be 5 studio courses or 4 studio courses + 1 LAS course.
Students select courses based on guidance from the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor Area Heads and Academic Advisors and must follow prerequisites when applicable. For the full list of courses that will count for this minor, along with recommended courses to take first, see the Minors Course Lists on the Registration page of the Dashboard (my.otis.edu). Students are advised to take minor classes in place of studio electives (or in place of one LAS elective), or for majors without electives by taking one extra class in each of 5 semesters spread out between sophomore and senior year.