This course will focus on implementing areas of special interest including new, advanced, and emerging visual communication course content. Potential topics include any area in industry practices, business and creativity, visual communications, studio and location lighting, production, editorial photography, and documentary storytelling. This course can be taken multiple times, but individual topics must differ.

The course requires students to imagine, research and create a project or series of projects that could only take place in New York City. The semester-long creative project in photography, design, video, or a variety of mediums will be guided by weekly lectures exposing students to NYC-based creative projects. The class will combine classroom learning and on-going project discussion along with hands-on inspiration from field trips to visits to creatives, alums, and cultural institutions. Classes will often take place in museums, galleries, artist studios or sites of cultural significance. Students will live in NYC during the term. Department permission to enroll is required.

The Photography Internship will provide students with the option to work in the photographic or visual communications field. Students may apply for internships to businesses based on the availability of positions and business job needs. Students must obtain permission of an instructor and complete the Internship Permission Form to enroll.

Photography Independent Study will provide students with the ability to study in a specialized area with an individual faculty member. Students, with the assistance of a faculty adviser, will propose a course of study. Photography Independent Study students must obtain permission of an instructor and complete the Independent Study Permission Form to enroll.

An independent study allows graduate students in the Photography and Related Media program the ability to study in a specialized area with an individual faculty member. Students, with the assistance of a faculty adviser, should propose a course of study or project with clearly defined goals and outcomes. Students must obtain permission of an instructor and complete the Independent Study Permission Form to enroll. **NOTE: Student must have a minimum 3.0 GPA *