the photography studies program offers an integrated academic framework for undergraduate studies in the theory and practice of photography and related media, leading to career possibilities in the many creative, artistic and commercial fields that use the photographic image, or to further study at the graduate level. the aim of the program is to produce graduates capable of working effectively in traditional and digital image-making systems. the curriculum is designed for maximum flexibility. the foundation years provide a base for working in an interdisciplinary mode at the upper year levels. an atmosphere of creative and critical inquiry across all four years gives students a rich awareness of the visual, aesthetic, technological, and cultural issues affecting the creation of images, as well as an enhanced appreciation of the rapid and radical changes occurring in the professions they will be entering.