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I’m enrolled in PH 601: MS: Photography-Concept and PH 612: MS: The Nature of Photography at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco.
My PH 601: MS: Photography-Concept course is being taught by Marc Ullom. I’m taken by his bio:
After graduating from the Academy as the valedictorian, Marc Ullom now works as a professional photographer and educator. Ullom is currently teaching full time at Andrews University, a small private institution of higher learning in Michigan, where he was awarded Teacher of the Year. His work has been exhibited across the country and can also be seen in an upcoming issue of B&W Magazine as well as in the Artists’ ShowCase Portfolio, Second Edition, published by the Center For Fine Art Photography.
I’ve got 12 classmates here. 10 gals and 2 guys. This seems really unusual to me for an MFA course but I’ll give credit to online courses that allow a greater segment of women to take these courses. It will be a nice change too. going through MBA school was a 70/30 guy/gal split. So I’m really going to welcome the change.
My PH 612: MS: The Nature of Photography course is being taught by James (Jim) Sienkiewicz and his website is http://www.jimsienkiewicz.com
In just a week I’ve seen some really thoughtful replies to questions. There is also a lot of class activity. Jim asked for 10-15 portfolio images as part of the first week assignment. The rest of the assignment is basically an introduction to everyone else in the course.
I’ve got 12 classmates here and again 10 are women. This class seems to have a lot more discussion traffic in it. Maybe it is due to this class not necessarily being a first semester course whereas I think my PH601 course is what everyone gets in the first semester.
So some introductions and some show and tell fills out the first week. This is pretty much what happens during the first week of most graduate and undergrad programs.
More soon!
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There is little data on MFA (Graduate) dropout and completion numbers, however there is undergrad data. Since you need an undergrad degree to apply for the MFA program I will let you interpret the data and opinions – I’ll add a little
There are some interesting numbers over at the US Dept. of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. These are bean counters where most of the beans are first time undergrad students. There isn’s much graduate data but it does provide some insight. Without other data available you can assume that the graduate programs are probably similar within a few points.
http://www.nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=ACADEMY+OF+ART+UNIVERSITY
That written, I’ll also write that it could be completely different. The undergraduate population is diverse and the graduate student population is even more diverse. I had statistics back in MBA school and my head and my gut tell me the numbers might not similar between these groups. If I get some solid graduate data I’ll post it here and republish the post.
There isn’t a lot of data on AAU when compared to other institutions.
Some input from students here:
Some basic info here:
Non-productive searches as of 19-January-2010:
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