<p>I'm looking into smaller liberal arts colleges that have a good arts department, and more specifically, a good photography department. I would specifically like to know about Reed, Oberlin, Kenyon and Colgate, as well as Northwestern University, however, any suggestions anybody could make would be wonderful
Thank you in advance :) </p>
<p>Bard College has a highly respected photography department. (I don’t know anything specifically about the photography departments at the colleges you noted.)</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence has a great art department and a color darkroom.</p>
<p>Skidmore/NY</p>
<p>With digital cameras, photoshop, & the bankruptcy of Eastman Kodak, do people still use darkrooms? </p>
<p>It goes the way print journalism does. 
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<p>^ Yes, in a college photography program. </p>
<p>I am definitely interested in a darkroom, 100%</p>
<p>Look at the course catalogs and google the school and its dept to see special opps, art shows and comments. Skidmore has an impressive arts program. </p>
<p>Sorry for being so dense about this. But i am genuinely puzzled. </p>
<p>Why do film if u can do photoshop? Isn’t that like writing the great American novel using a fountain pen?</p>
<p>For the darkroom film and photo developing experience and the creative touches. Maybe not for the general public, but an art/photo major, sure, if the school can support the equipment. You could ask, why build that model bridge if a computer could do it for you? </p>
<p>This is one of mine and husbands’ interest. I used to buy lots of films for slides, but not sure you can do that any more. Dark room, what’s that?</p>
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<p>The engineers don’t build the model bridges for themselves; they build them nowadays to milk the client for more services.</p>
<p>lol Reed definitely isn’t known for its photography program. There are photography courses offered under Art but that’s it. Sarah Lawrence, which is pretty similar to Reed in many aspects (the biggest differences are Reed’s structural rigor in academics and SLC’s lack thereof, and SLC’s artsy vibe vs Reed’s not-so-artsy-maybe-alil-sciency vibe), may be a better option.</p>
<p>Why pick a college based on photography? You can take that at a CC in your own time or after your degree.</p>
<p>I’m debating majoring in art, but don’t want to go to an art school. Photography is more than a hobby or something I do in my spare time, it’s a passion, something I want to incorporate in my life, and a big part of that is college. </p>
<p>The Photography program at Bard College is large and serious. And highly competitive. Definitely an academic department that is appropriate for college study! <a href=“http://photo.bard.edu”>http://photo.bard.edu</a></p>
<p>From the introduction on the page:
A photographer’s growth is a product of the simultaneous development of three inter-dependent factors.</p>
<p>The first is gaining a conscious or intuitive understanding of the visual language of photography, that is, how the world is translated into a photograph and how a photograph orders in space and time the segment of the world that it shows. This is a photograph’s grammar.
The second factor is the acquisition of technique. Without a technical foundation, expression is impossible; conversely, the broader the foundation, the greater the scope of expression. This is a photograph’s vocabulary.</p>
<p>The third factor is the photographer’s work on his or her self. This entails overcoming visual and psychological preconceptions and conditioning, deepening and clarifying perceptions, and opening up to one’s emotions and finding one’s passions. This is a photograph’s content. It is the Photography Program’s aim to offer instruction in this three-part process and to provide a historical and aesthetic framework for the student’s development within the context of a broad-based liberal arts education.</p>