Spring 2027

Advanced Photography

Advanced Photography emphasizes advanced techniques, color, personal concepts and expression, criticism, and the communicative potential of photography.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Darcy Padilla

Summary

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Past student reviews · Tomiko Jones

The course required a lot of work, and the instructor was strict on deadlines, refusing to grant extensions.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Illustrate the ability to promote your own work.

  • Understand the historical and contemporary practices of photography.

  • Demonstrate the ability to approach photography with personal concepts and expression.

  • Illustrate the skill to edit and sequence your own work.

  • Demonstrate the skill to discuss both your own work as well as other visual artists.

  • Illustrate the skill to edit and discuss both your own work as well as other visual artists.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

ART 476 or declared in an Art graduate program

    • ART 476
    • declared in an Art graduate program
    take one
ART 576

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  • Any of
    • ART 476
    • declared in an Art graduate program

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DARCY PADILLA is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LAB 001Classroom Instruction0 / 120

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Tomiko Jones

Students found the course demanding but supportive, noting that the instructor was fair and willing to help, making success achievable with consistent effort.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.79 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Tomiko Jones

The course required a lot of work, and the instructor was strict on deadlines, refusing to grant extensions.

Past student reviews · Tomiko Jones

The instructor was described as very accomplished and knowledgeable, providing strong support to students throughout the term.

Topics

  • Advanced techniques, color, personal concepts and expression, criticism, and communicative potential of photography.
  • Historical and contemporary practices of photography.
  • Editing and sequencing photographic work.

Skills

  • Advanced photographic techniques, color, personal concepts and expression, criticism, and communicative potential.
  • Promote one's own work.
  • Understand historical and contemporary practices of photography.
  • Edit and sequence one's own work.
  • Discuss one's own work and other visual artists.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
ART 576 · Spring 2027

Advanced Photography

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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    "term_id": "1274",
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    "title": "Advanced Photography",
    "credits_min": 4,
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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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