Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art - Photography

The Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art allows students to explore a studio area or areas of interest, including ceramics, metals and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, allowing students to create a hybrid experience as they apply their artistic interests – and aspects of their broader liberal arts education – to a contemporary studio art practice. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art has six different concentration choices for students: ceramics, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Students pursuing a B.A. in Studio Art become fluent in the practice of visual arts. Students will gain critical and analytical thinking skills, as well as conceptual rigor, technical expertise, and methods as a means to explore intellectual and human experience through visual arts modes. Students pursuing a B.F.A. in Studio Art will choose in-depth study in one or more studio areas, learn traditional areas of artistic craftsmanship as well as innovative trends and technologies, and develop a professional portfolio for their career or post-graduate study. (Students cannot earn both the BA in Studio Art and the BFA in Studio Art.)Our studio art graduates seek careers in many areas. Some become professional artists, such as art directors, web designers, illustrators, graphic designers, photographers, printmakers, painters, sculptors, metalsmiths, and ceramists. Graduates may also go on to graduate school to prepare them to be university faculty, private-sector teachers, art therapists, gallery directors, museum curators, or art critics.Photographic study at Miami University emphasizes fine art practice, including craftsmanship and creativity. Technical proficiency with black and white and color processes is where we begin to understand the language of traditional and alternative photographic practice. The use of this complicated and powerful visual language is the primary focus of the program. There is also growing experimentation with digital imagery and all the technological advances surrounding that technology.We explore photographic history, theory and criticism throughout the sequence of courses in the concentration. Development of your own approach to photographic imagery and the creation of a body of work begins in earnest at the start of your senior year. The ability to be a creative thinker and problem solver is also an emphasis of the program. Students are encouraged to reach outside the university for photographic experiences. The courage to accept freelance photography jobs and to attend regional and national photographic conferences is highly cultivated.

Basic requirements for admission as an international student to a bachelor's degree program include the following: Completion of formal secondary education in a pre-university curriculum. Completion must include the awarding of a diploma or the issuance of a leaving certificate or matriculation certificate generally recognized as the educational qualification necessary for admission to higher studies. English language ability at a level sufficient to undertake a full course of study. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or American College Testing (ACT) scores (if applicable). International students are not required to provide an ACT or SAT score, but they may use the ACT or SAT to satisfy English language proficiency requirements. Copy of Passport or National ID card. All international applicants and international students who are visa holders in the US must also provide a copy of their current visa or immigration status. All international applicants and international students who are visa holders in the US must provide a copy of their current visa or immigration status.