Senior Seminar 2

Level: Undergraduate

Division: Parsons The New School for Design

School: School of Art, Media and Technology

Department: Photography

Course Number: PUPH 4003

Course Format: Seminar

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: No

Topics:

• Photography
• Branding
• Entrepreneurship

Description:
The second semester of this full year course will be divided into two seven-week modules. The first part will deal with identifying what your goals are for after you graduate and how you are going to accomplish them. You will discuss resume and portfolio presentation, how to identify, acquire, and maintain clients, how to approach a gallery or a museum, how to negotiate contracts, copyright, and reproduction rights, what the tax advantages and liabilities are of free-lance status. The second part of the second semester will concentrate on preparing for your Senior Show: how to edit and sequence your work, how best to use your allotted space, how to mat and frame your pictures, and how to hang them relative to a sight line. You will be required to keep a daybook specifically for this class.

Course Pre/Co-requisites:
Open to: Bachelors degree in Photography majors only. Pre-requisite(s): PUPH 4001 Senior Seminar 1.

Restrictions:

College

Open to Lang/Parsons BA/BFA students.

Open to Parsons students.

Level

Open to Undergraduate students.