Photography Thesis
You have spent your degree learning to see; the thesis asks you to understand what you have seen — to take one question from your own practice and follow it, with patience and honest method, until it becomes a work the University will publish.
The capstone passage of the photography degree — from noticing a question hidden inside your own practice and grinding it to a single sharp edge, through the long conversation of scholars who wrote before you and the honesty that keeps your study clean, into method, evidence, and findings, until every chapter stands assembled, revised, and submitted — and your thesis takes its place in the University's published research.
Course Overview
PHO 397 is the capstone of the B.S. in Photography: an eight-lesson course in which you research, write, and complete your bachelor thesis part by part. Each lesson turns the craft of academic research toward your own photographic practice, and each assignment produces a real section of your thesis — the research question, the literature review, the ethics statement, the methodology, the findings — until the final lesson, where you submit the finished thesis for faculty review and publication in the University's research collection.
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Recommended Books & Publications
All publications below are included with your course purchase at no additional cost.
Degree Pathway & Living Accreditation
This course awards 3 academic credits transferable directly into Light & Composition University’s formal Diploma and Degree programs.
PHO 397
Master real optical exposure, assignments, and capstones. Complete 8 lessons and earn 3 accredited course credits.
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