Course summary
- Acquire digital and traditional photographic analogue skills, digital capture and production and image management and manipulation, using industry standard equipment.
- Develop core practical skills through creative professional practice and a critical engagement with image making.
- Refine your ability to solve problems, manage complex projects, and communicate your ideas effectively.
Engage with a distinctive, independent approach to a wide range of photographic contexts with this professional and practice-based degree. You are encouraged to take risks in a highly creative environment, developing your understanding and knowledge of the medium to enable you to fulfil your potential in the constantly-evolving discipline of photography.
How you learn
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
You learn through a creative, practice-based approach to self-directed production which emulates the independent nature of professional practice within photography. This is underpinned through an exploration of historical and contemporary approaches and relevant theoretical issues in order to help situate your work in a critical context.
You learn through
- specialist workshops
- technical surgeries
- large group lectures
- smaller group seminars
- group critiques and review sessions
- individual tutorials
Future careers
This course prepares you for a career in
- documentary
- fine art
- fashion and advertising
- editorial
- press and photojournalism
- general and social portraiture
- scientific and medical
- stills for film and video productions
- post-production (picture editing, processing, printing and finishing)
- picture research and publishing
- curatorial and gallery contexts
Graduates of this course have gone on to work for
- S1 Artspace
- Webber Agency
- Gill Turner Photo Agency
- The Lowry
- Wex Photo Video
- Apple
- Salt-Street Productions
- American Golf
- Pinkbike
- Alpkit
- JD Official
- Size Official
- Boohoo
- Flannels
- THG Studios
- NHS England
- Mission Foodservice
- My-Furniture.com
- Frasers Group
Modules
Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.
You will be able to complete a placement year as part of this course. See the modules table below for further information.
Year 1
Compulsory modulesModuleCreditsAssessmentPhotography: Analogue Practices40CourseworkPhotography: Digital Techniques And Skills20Coursework
Photography: History - Practices And Debates20Coursework
Photography: Introduction To Critical Analysis20Coursework
Photography: Professional Development (Production And Output)
Year 2
Compulsory modulesModuleCreditsAssessmentPhotography: Advanced Techniques And Skills20CourseworkPhotography: Concepts And Questions20Coursework
Photography: Contemporary Photographic Practice20Coursework
Photography: Professional Application - External Exhibition40Coursework
Photography: Research And
Year 3
Optional modulesModuleCreditsPlacement Year-Final year
Compulsory modulesModuleCreditsAssessmentPhotography: Critical Research Project20CourseworkPhotography: Independent Practice60Coursework
Photography: Independent Practice Preparation20Coursework
Photography: Professional Practice20Coursework
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