U-PHTG-MIN - Photography - Minor

Visual competence and media literacy is central to critical thinking in the twenty-first century. The historical study of art, architecture, and visual culture provides the understanding and the language necessary for analyzing images, objects, and buildings and for recognizing and theorizing their social impact. The making of art develops the ability to think critically and visually, to resolve spatial problems, and to apply concepts to the creation of images, objects, multimedia installations, actions, and a variety of new socially interactive relations in culture. Visual studies enables understanding of the role of images in everything from the fine arts and the psychology of perception to popular culture and the media (advertising, television, photography, film, video, the Internet, and computer imagining), as well as in all professional and social contexts from the courtroom and hospital to the lecture hall and street.

Website: aahvs.duke.edu/undergraduate/minors/photography