Overview

  • Delivery: Daytime or Evening Classes
  • Start: Fall or Spring Semester, Full- or Part-Time
  • Location: Rosemount Campus

Outcomes

Program Data Sheet

Major Description

Integrating the art, science and business of photography in a dynamic curriculum, this program allows students to achieve one or more of the following goals:

  1. Starting a photography business
  2. Entering a specific sector of the visual communications workplace
  3. Acceptance to a four-year college

Work Environment

Professional photographers, self-employed or employed by small, medium, and large organizations, succeed in a multitude of niches. Harnessing creativity to their strong technical skills, photographers typically gravitate towards an area of scientific, commercial, market-based, or artistic specialization.

Potential Job Titles

  • Advertising Photographer
  • Forensic Photographer
  • Medical Photographer
  • Photojournalist
  • Portrait Photographer
  • Sports Photographer
  • Visual Information Media Generalist
  • Wedding Photographer

Salary Data

  • Average Wage: $21.68/hour
  • Top Earners: $39.62/hour

Academic Advisor


Instructors

William Eilers 651-423-8364 william.eilers@dctc.edu BIO
Peter Latner 651-423-8590 peter.latner@dctc.edu BIO
Darrell Tangen 651-423-8584 darrell.tangen@dctc.edu BIO

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