Program Overview

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Photography (with Foundation Year) BA (Hons)

Overview

This course is designed for students who enjoy capturing fleeting moments and can imagine taking and making photographs for a living. The program is a practical photography course that explores all types of photographic production, from portraiture and fashion to still life, allowing students to identify their specialism in this diverse industry.

Course Details

Foundation Year Core Modules

• Digital Art: Explore the fundamental principles of design and composition, studying image creation techniques using graphics software.
• Drawing and Making Fundamentals: Develop knowledge of fundamental drawing and making approaches for many purposes and disciplines.
• Final Project: Create original ideas and concepts for an individual project, creating an artefact, report, campaign, comic, product, or other form related to the arts, design, and media industries.
• Study Skills: Develop key study skills in preparation for starting a degree, including critical thinking, teamwork, research, and delivering presentations.

Year 1 Core Modules

• Collaboration Project: Enhance skills in team-working, communication, project management, and negotiation.
• Introduction to Photography Practice: Explore techniques and strategies for making analogue and digital photographic images.
• Introduction to the Creative Industries: Learn how to start on a career path while developing vital employability skills such as networking and digital presence.
• Photography Project: Introduced to project development in photographic practice by learning key methods, tools, and critical concepts.

Year 2 Core Modules

• Advanced Photography Project: Study advanced concepts, approaches, and techniques to create a portfolio of images, fostering greater understanding of creative work, its discussion, and historical and modern-day practice.
• Creative Research Project: Develop critical thinking and analysis skills, exploring contemporary issues and debates related to the creative industries.
• Industry Project: Develop and explore, in depth, a creative industry-based project in a specialist area of design, art, media, music, photography, or illustration - relevant to future professional practice.
• Working in the Creative Industries: Research the social, political, or ecological challenges around us to generate a small-scale project.

Optional Work Placement Year

• Work Placement: Spend one year in industry learning and developing skills.

Final-Year Core Modules

• Major Project: Produce a self-managed, individual extended piece of independent investigation and/or creative production or portfolio of work.
• Professional Practice: Plan and implement departure from education to a first or new career, or to further study.

Entry Requirements

• Any combination of level 3 qualifications. Each application is considered on a case-by-case basis.

Employability

• A large variety of unique options are open to graduates with a BA (Hons) Photography, including freelance and corporate photography industries, photo-related industries, art-related careers, further education and academic careers, art directing, and entrepreneurship.

Information for International Applicants

• International applicants can find out what qualifications they need by visiting the university's website.

Tuition Fees

• UK Applicants: £9,535 a year
• International Applicants: £17,000 a year

Course Length

• 4 years (5 with work placement)

UCAS Code

• W644 BA/PhotoFY

Start Date

• January or September

Semester Dates

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Typical Offer

• 48-64 points

Overview of Entry Requirements

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Part-Time

• Not available part-time

iPad and Learning Resources

• Eligible students can receive an iPad, keyboard, and up to £300 credit for learning resources.

Accommodation

• Live in affordable accommodation right on-campus - from only £100 a week

Campus

• Study in the town-centre campus with £280m of recent investment.

Adobe Creative Campus

• Study at Europe's first Adobe Creative Campus and develop creative and digital skills.

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• Tees Valley, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BX, UK

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