Photo Imaging

Associate Degree Program

If you're interested in learning how to create the sophisticated images required by today’s media, the Photo Imaging program at Delaware Tech is the answer. This degree program will prepare you with the skills and experience necessary to use digital photography and videography to create images that meet modern standards for presentations, publications, advertising, and social media.

You will learn the principles of good design and how to solve design problems creatively. Whether your goal is to improve your traditional photography techniques or move into new career fields in digital photography and video editing.

The program uses the visual formats of still and video photography while applying the technical skills needed to manipulate images digitally. This program prepares you for a successful career using creative commercial photography solutions for print, web, and video-based publishing, while also including the opportunity to become Adobe certified in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Offered at the following campus(es): Dover

What You Can Do

In this program, you will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare you for positions such as:

• In-house photographer for corporations, government, or nonprofit organizations
• Wedding photographer
• Portrait photographer
• Videographer
• Social media content developer
• Independent, self-employed photographer

What You Will Learn

Program Graduate Competencies

The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.

1. Integrate principles and elements of design into cohesive problem solving techniques for photographic and video assignments.
2. Critique digital photographic and/or video images and develop strategies for strengthening their conceptual and technical effectiveness.
3. Structure a problem solving strategy for delivery of the client's message to his market, making efficient use of current design, production, and delivery technologies.
4. Synthesize photographic images and/or video from a variety of sources and formats into cohesive presentations that are technically and conceptually effective.
5. Collaborate with art directors, clients, models, and others to achieve the desired conceptual effect of requested imagery.
6. Integrate professional, ethical, and legal standards into business practice.

Core Curriculum Competencies

The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:

1. Apply clear and effective communication skills.
2. Use critical thinking to solve problems.
3. Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
4. Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
5. Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
6. Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.

Suggested Pathway to Graduation

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