Photography MA - Coventry Univer

Tuition Fee

USD 22,320

Per year

Start Date

Medium of studying

On campus

Duration

24 months

Program Facts

About Program

About University

Admission Requirements

Program Facts

Program Details

Degree

Masters

Major

Photography | Visual Arts

Area of study

Arts

Minor

Photographic Arts | Commercial Photography

Education type

On campus

Timing

Full time

Course Language

English

Tuition Fee

Average International Tuition Fee

USD 22,320

Intakes

Program start date	Application deadline
2023-09-01	-

About Program

Program Overview

Course overview

This course offers an exciting opportunity for emerging practitioners in the field of photography and its associated forms to develop their work via a series of key interrogations.

In providing spaces for exploration and reflection in relation to publics, visual strategies and the contextual location of independent work, the course presents a distinctive way for you to explore the possibilities of your work alongside a longitudinal development of your core practice.

You will have the option to apply for a ‘professional experience’ opportunity

designed to further develop your skills and knowledge with the aim of maximising your employability prospects. See modules for more information.

The course challenges you to imagine, and work with, new audiences, processes and professional futures in order to enter into a sustainable and flexible career working with images.

Solid track record of graduate outcomes – 84% of graduates from our media cluster were in work or further study after 15 months (Graduate Outcomes Survey for 2020 leavers).

Global ready

An international outlook, with global opportunities

Teaching excellence

Taught by lecturers who are experts in their field

Employability

Career ready graduates, with the skills to succeed

Why you should study this course

The MA Photography course presents an exciting curriculum which emphasises support of your unique practice and how it relates to our professional and social responsibilities as image-makers.

All members of the course team hold qualifications in teaching and learning in higher education and have extensive pedagogical experience alongside research profiles that position them as experts in particular areas of photographic practice – spanning family photography and the role of the studio, through photobooks and their readers, to photography as a participatory practice and the materiality of the archive.

The MA Photography course presents an exciting curriculum which emphasises support of your unique practice and how it relates to our professional and social responsibilities as image-makers. You will have freedom to experiment whilst also sharpening a specific and dedicated practice, standing you in great stead for a variety of roles after graduation.

The course will challenge traditional epistemologies of what the photograph, and what photography, is. Instead it will ask students to question the interstices of photography and object, photography and space, as well as medium and genre boundaries.

We will explore the connection between the making, and the making public, of photographic work and processes. With a foundation of investigation and accompanying theoretical analysis, students will have the opportunity to develop and test their own publishing models which seek to connect work to appropriate and defined readerships.

Students will interrogate the manner in which images perform different roles for different purposes; how they contribute to our understanding of the world, its geography, inhabitants and social structures.

Accreditation and professional recognition

This course is accredited

and recognised by the following bodies:

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

As part of this course, you will undertake a professional development module which is currently accredited by the

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

for the 2022-23 intake. Upon successful completion of this module, you will gain the CMI

Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

at no additional cost. Further details can be found under the modules and on the

Professional Development

module homepage.

Coventry University’s accreditation with CMI is currently ongoing for the relevant modules and is regularly reviewed and monitored by the CMI through their quality systems.

Program Outline

Year one

The course has been constructed to provide essential places of experimentation and diversification of skills and knowledge, whilst also encouraging rigour in your practice which leads to its robust situation within social, political, and visual contexts.

Modules

Objects, Spaces and Boundaries – 20 credits

Objects, spaces and boundaries aims to challenge traditional epistemologies of what the photograph, and what photography is. It will ask you to question the interstices of photography and object, photography and space, as well as medium and genre boundaries.

Compulsory

Research Methods – 20 credits

This module aims to provide you with the theoretical, conceptual, investigative and practical tools needed to develop your own independent research and comprehend which methods will best support your response to a particular research project.

Compulsory

Entrepreneurial Practice – 10 credits

This CMI module

aims to provide you with a framework of knowledge and understanding of how to effectively lead and develop people in a strategic and entrepreneurial way whatever the master’s degree of specialisation you elect to follow

Compulsory

Collaborative Social Challenge Project - 10 credits

This project module aims to allow you to develop your independent and collaborative working skills through a focussed application and response to a specific context. Working with peers from within School of Media & Performing Arts MA courses and/or external collaborators, you will seek to develop an interdisciplinary response to a live brief generated by addressing and engaging with a social challenge.

Compulsory

Photography and Publics - 20 credits

Compulsory

Final Major Project (Research and Planning) – 30 credits

The aim of this module is for you to develop a body of research-informed work in a specialism of your choosing, which demonstrates a critical awareness of current developments and trends in your area of practice/specialism. This work will form the basis of your final project.

Compulsory

Collaborative Community Project - 10 credits

Compulsory

Photographic Situations - 20 credits

Photographic Situations presents and explores the myriad ways in which photography contributes to, and builds on, its contextual locations. The module takes as a starting point John Tagg’s notion that the history of photography is not singular, but instead intimately connected with its agents of employment and uses. You will look to interrogate the manner in which photography performs different roles for different purposes; how it contributes to our understanding of the world, its geography, inhabitants and social structures.

Compulsory

Final Major Project (Production and Sharing) – 30 credits

In this module, you will manage to completion a substantial piece of independent research practice that is informed by the wider contexts of your discipline, and is well-conceived, well-rounded, coherent and of a standard appropriate to Master’s level.

Compulsory

Collaborative Enterprise Project – 10 credits

This project module aims to allow you to develop your independent and collaborative working skills through a focussed application and response to a specific context. Working with peers from within School of Media & Performing Arts MA courses and/or external collaborators, you will look to develop an interdisciplinary response to a live brief generated by exploring opportunities for enterprise within your practice. Students will explore potential routes to monetise your work and consider your role as a member of the future media and performing arts workforce.

Compulsory