The Professional Photography program provides students with a working knowledge of the photography industry. Students are trained for entry-level positions in the fields of commercial, photojournalism, and portraiture photography. The program is recognized as one of the best in the Midwest.
This program is recognized by the Professional Photographers of America.
Students in the Professional Photography program receive a strong basic photographic education through classroom activities, live demonstrations, and hands-on experience in Hawkeye’s photography studios, color and black and white processing laboratories, and in the computer imaging laboratory. Instruction in traditional analog and digital technologies provides students with a broad range of skills for employment.
The Professional Photography program is four semesters in length and starts in the Fall semester.
Hawkeye’s Professional Photography program has articulation agreements with Upper Iowa University and Wartburg College allowing students to transfer to junior status. The Regent universities accept 12 hours of general education transfer credit and 16 hours of elective credit. Articulation agreements with the Department of Industrial Technology at the University of Northern Iowa assist the graduate in transferring additional credits.
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"Hawkeye Community College has one of the best Photography programs throughout the whole United States. I am very honored to have gotten my photography degree from Hawkeye. The instructors in the photography program know what they are doing and are very distinguished in the photography field. I started my business one year after graduation and after learning the business side of it from another photographer. I would recommend Hawkeye Community College to any individual looking to get started in any technical field. "
Rose Sieleman, Owner/Photographer Infinite Image Design - Cedar Falls, IA Class of 2003
