{
  "college": "sierra-college",
  "edition": "2025-2026",
  "departmentName": "Photography",
  "id": "photography--photvidas",
  "name": "Photography and Video",
  "award": "AS Degree",
  "department": "photography",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.sierracollege.edu/archive/2025-2026/departments/photography/#photvidas",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "This interdisciplinary program of study will enable students to create technically and aesthetically successful still photographs and to capture and edit video with a solid narrative structure that meets client or employer needs. Students must fulfill the following major requirements with grades of “C” or better, complete a minimum of 60 degree-applicable semester units (12 of which must be completed at Sierra College) with a grade point average of at least 2.0 and complete one of the following three general education patterns:\n\n-   Sierra College Associate Degree Requirements (Local General Education)\n-   California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC)"
    },
    {
      "kind": "courselist",
      "title": "Required Courses",
      "rows": [
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PHOT 0060A",
          "title": "Beginning Photography",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PHOT 0063",
          "title": "Digital Photography",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PHOT 0070A",
          "title": "Studio Lighting",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PHOT 0075",
          "title": "Introduction to Photoshop (also AAD 0075)",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AAD/PHOT 0079",
          "title": "Introduction to Digital Filmmaking and Video Production",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AAD 0082",
          "title": "Intermediate Digital Filmmaking",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PHOT 0089",
          "title": "Documentary Filmmaking (also AAD 0089)",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select 3 units from the following:",
          "units": "3"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "AAD 0093",
          "title": "Introduction to Motion Graphics",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PHOT 0076",
          "title": "Advanced Projects in Photoshop (also AAD 0076)",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "total",
          "text": "Total Units",
          "units": "24"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}