Program Description

Maybe you want to capture the world — as it is, or as you want to show it. Whether you’re hoping for a career as a wedding or portrait photographer, commercial and industrial photographer, scientific or fine arts photographer, this concentration within the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art degree can help you get there.  At AUM, you’ll learn everything about being behind the camera — and more — by doing, from 35-mm film to new alternative processes.                            

Points of Pride

• AUM students have completed internships at Alabama Living magazine, Matter (a design firm), the Stamp Idea Group (an advertising agency), and the Indie Film Lab (one of the three largest photo processing labs in the United States).
• AUM's Goodwyn Gallery hosts exhibitions by visiting artists and advanced students.
• Our active AUM Student Art Association organizes trips for students to out-of-town workshops and exhibitions.

Put Your Degree to Work

_{Note: While salaries vary depending on several factors including your level of experience, education and training, and geography and industry, here is a sampling of the future job growth and salaries in this area.}

Employment of media and communication occupations, which includes photography, is projected to grow 4 percent from 2014 to 2024, which will result in about 27,400 new jobs. Demand for media and communication occupations should stem from the need to create, edit, translate, and disseminate information through a variety of different platforms. The median annual wage for media and communication occupations was $52,370 in May 2014, which was higher than the median annual wage for all occupations of $35,540.

For More Information

Department of Fine Arts

Auburn University at Montgomery

Goodwyn Hall 107

334-244-3377

ashughes@aum.edu

Soaring Warhawks

• Trevette Brown was accepted into Atlanta Celebrates Photography's 2016 Portfolio Review, a juried show that provides the opportunity for emerging photographers to have their work reviewed by everyone from a senior photo editor at CNN to the assistant curator of photography at the High Museum to the curator of photography at the Norton Museum of Art.
• Kaylee Hobbs works as the internet photographer on the marketing team for a luxury and import auto dealer.

Program Overview

The course listings below are a representation of what this academic program requires. For a full review of this program in detail, please see our official online catalog AND consult with an academic advisor. This listing does not include the core curriculum courses required for all majors and may not include some program-specific information, such as admissions, retention and termination standards.

Course sampling specific to the Photography degree option includes: