This established photography degree offers a broad approach to the medium of photography and is constructed around a series of practical modules that will build your skills and nurture your creativity.
Essential Info
Our photography degree contains a rich variety of contextual modules, which encourage you to consider photography across a broad spectrum of genres and applications, and in relation to culture, history and theory. Gallery visits and field trips are built into the course and you can also arrange work placements. Your practical development on the course will culminate in a major public exhibition of your photographic work.
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What You Will Study
The first year of the photography degree includes traditional silver-based photography as a significant area of study. It also introduces and explores key concepts that are relevant to the wider photographic medium through challenging practical projects. All practical modules – whether based in documentary or fine-art photography, or designed to explore specific characteristics of digital media – will develop your technical skills and provide stimulating creative assignments.
The photography degree course content will reinforce your practical potential through a sound knowledge of the history of photography and an awareness of contemporary developments in the medium. The contextual elements of the course also encourage you to think critically about photography and its impact on culture and society.
The following modules are attached to this award:
Year One
Photography Practical 1
Photography Practical 2
Introduction to Photography Themes and Issues
Studio and Digital photographic practice
Film and the moving image
Visual Communication and Culture
Year Two
Documentary Photography
Photographic Fictions
Photography Themes and Issues
Digital Photography
Identity and Difference
Avante Garde Cinema
Year Three
Major Photography Project
Studies in Photographic Practice
Themes and Issues in Contemporary Photography
Photography and Cultural Studies
Representation
How You Will Study
The emphasis of this photography degree is practice, but it also contains theoretical elements that provide context. The practical teaching is delivered through a combination of workshops, lectures and tutorials, with screenings, gallery visits, field trips and other events. You will usually develop your practical work individually, but will occasionally work in groups. You will have guidance on assignments but will also be expected to work in a self-directed way, especially in your final year Major Project that concludes with a public exhibition. Most theory modules have seminar sessions as well as lectures.
Prospects
Possible Career Options
The diversity of course content, in practical and theoretical modules, ensures that you graduate with an all-round critical understanding of photography and its relationship to a range of other media forms. Recent graduates have successfully entered the photographic industry, established themselves as self-employed photographers or progressed to study photography at postgraduate level.
