Year 1
Documentary (20 credits)
This module will introduce you to the genres of documentary photography and is designed to bring together practice, technology and theory. Working to a set brief, you will progress your basic camera and darkroom skills and at the same time, will start to engage in the key debates and historical contexts that inform documentary and landscape photography.
Space and Place (20 credits)
This module will introduce you to the visual and critical concepts of space and place through the making of a visually engaging and conceptually coherent series of images. You will explore your own specific location that will be identified by random selection using map references. Finished work can be presented as photographic prints or through a range of electronic formats
Portrait and Light (20 credits)
You will become familiar with themes inherent to the genre such as identity and representation. Colour photography will be introduced and colour theory discussed. You will shoot on location and in the studio and will produce portraits using controlled lighting. Working with others will develop your communication skills and stimulate questions about photography as an act of social exchange.
Photographic Techniques (40 credits) - year long module
This module is designed to introduce you to basic and more advanced technical skills involved in the production of photographic images (or equivalent). It will cover both analogue and digital processes and techniques including digital capture, scanning, file management, post-production and output, 35 mm B&W and studio and practice and location lighting.
Year 2
Constructed Narratives (40 credits)
This module investigates the construction and relevance of the main method of communication within photography - narratives. You will initially be encouraged to work in an experimental manner, to consider and explore a range of different methods of constructing a sequence of events. These include looking at set construction, moving image and computer generated imaging.
Individual Practice (20 credits)
This module encourages you to produce work within a framework that draws closer to the professional activity of a fully competent practitioner. This module seeks to develop and extend the students professional capabilities by providing a platform for the execution of significant body of work.
Advanced Photographic Techniques (20 credits)
This module builds on and develops the techniques acquired in Photographic Techniques in addition to introducing new techniques. This module is taught by lecturers and industry specialists.
Professional Practice 1 (20 credits) - Year long module
Professional Practice 1 will introduce students to practical, investigative and analytical skills, which will allow you to gain an insight into business, legal, ethical, operational and methodological issues relevant to the creative industries. This will include issues of self-employment and entrepreneurship, professional networks and highlight the importance of networking.
Year 3
Degree Project (60 credits) - year long module
This module will allow students to develop, define and undertake a final major project. The methodology for this process has been defined at level 4 and 5. The work undertaken in the previous modules will form the basis for further investigation. You will develop an in-depth proposal that will guide you through the production of your project.
Professional Practice 2 (20 credits) - year long module
This module prepares each student for the professional sector. It teaches students how to research and write funding applications and business plans in addition to examining a broad range of relevant professional practices.
Dissertation (40 credits) - year long module
Self-directed research is undertaken – under academic supervision - on a topic chosen by you. The research leads to the production of an extended piece of academic writing which demonstrates sound research, advanced subject knowledge and a well-informed ability to think about and interpret visual images.
