Photography Thesis

PHO 397 is the final course of the B.S. in Photography — the one in which you stop preparing to write a thesis and actually write it. Lesson by lesson, the course walks you from the first act of noticing a researchable question inside your own practice to the last act of pressing submit: you will frame one sharp research question, read and join the scholarly conversation on your subject, write an honest ethics statement, choose and defend a methodology — including practice-led inquiry built on your own image-making — carry out the study, and shape what you find into chapters that hold together.

Every assignment is a working part of the real document: nothing in this course is an exercise for its own sake. By the eighth lesson your thesis is complete — introduction, chapters, conclusion, abstract, and references — and you submit it to the University for faculty review. Approved theses are published in the Light & Composition University research collection, where your seeing becomes scholarship and joins the public record of the medium.