BA (Hons) Photography

Module: 4FP018

Credits: 60

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module provides you with the time and space to develop independently by supporting you to become more experimental in the production of your work. The emphasis, in this module, is on process, theory, and practice and the ways by which they contribute to the production of your work. Throughout the module you will be encouraged to test new approaches and ideas and to reflect on the successes and importantly, the failures of your work. In tutorials and group reviews you will be asked to reflect on these experiences and to consider how you might learn from experimentation, critical analysis, and the feedback of potential audiences to re-think and re-work your ideas. This module will also introduce you to a range of dialogues between models of practice and contextual knowledge that will help you understand contemporary practice, and its relationship to audience. You will engage in lectures and seminars and produce a range of creative and academic contextual assignments that will directly link to your projects. The module will encourage you to organise your time effectively, work more independently and demonstrate the personal curiosity to find and evaluate concepts and artworks that have a specific relationship to your work.

Module: 4FP017

Credits: 60

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to a range of workshops, resources and staff working across the School of Art to provide you with specialist making, methods and media instruction appropriate to your practice. It is an intensive workshop-based module and throughout the year you will undertake a series of studio, workshop and media-based projects that will provide the foundation for your emerging practice. As a Level 4 student in the School of Art you will be supported to make the leap between your prior educational experiences and independent practice. You will develop time management skills through structured tasks and increasingly you will be expected to make use of independent study hours to further test and progress your work in the studios and workshops. In this module you will also learn to document and record your work effectively and gain confidence in reflecting on your work in sketchbooks, journals, group reviews and tutorials in relation to a range of contextual ideas, practitioners, and projects associated with your work.

Module: 5FP015

Credits: 60

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is designed to increase your awareness of a variety of concepts, issues and strategies of display, which have affected or influenced the way in which creative practitioners devise and develop work. You will stretch and deepen your application of practical skills and conceptual thinking to examine the role of a wider audience both within our facilities and through engagement with external sites and organisations. A programme of advanced tutor-led workshops and contextual research will support you to develop appropriate tools for the realisation and dissemination of your work and related projects. Additionally, you will examine the importance of context for creating and controlling meaning within a framework that your practice is located in. Through ongoing contact and exposure to material, cultural, social, environmental, historical and contemporary issues within the arts you will demonstrate the critical ability to site your work professionally in public contexts.

Module: 5FP014

Credits: 60

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

As a Level 5 student in the School of Art you will be supported to make the leap between your prior Level 4 experiences and advanced practice and techniques. You will further develop time management skills to make use of independent study hours to further test and progress your work in our facilities. In this module you will develop more personal methodologies to document and record your work effectively. You will gain confidence in reflecting on your work in sketchbooks, journals, group reviews and tutorials in relation to a range of contextual ideas and artists associated with self-initiated work. Through tutor led lectures and seminars, the module will present a range of contextual and conceptual frameworks, and practices to support the development of your independent work. You are expected to apply advanced methods of experimentation in order to realise, review, test and discuss contemporary practice, your work and the work of your peers. You will generate practical and written responses to underpin your conceptual and aesthetic position. As level 5 progresses you will be expected to advance through a body of work and pose significant ideas for progression at level 6.

Module: 6FP011

Credits: 60

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

As a Level 6 student in the School of Art you will build on your previous experiences and advance your practice and techniques. Through a focused and on-going enquiry, you will establish a sustained ability to reflect and develop work, based on an informed understanding of your practice. This module aims to strengthen the development of a sustained and independent artistic practice leading to the completion of a significant body of work. By encouraging you to explore a range of concepts and practices, you will consolidate your skills through critical enquiry and be expected to make full use of facilities, studios and your personal study hours. Specialist tutorials will support you to identify, understand and reflect on the connections between intention, process, outcome and context in your work. The dissertation project will equip you with critical and theoretical languages drawn from contextual frameworks relevant to your practice.

Module: 6FP012

Credits: 60

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will enable you to resolve your work to a professional standard and address appropriate personal and career objectives, in order to develop new strategies for intervening and disseminating your work in the public sphere. You will explore a range of concepts and practices of contemporary strategies of display, dissemination, promotion and publication leading to the completion and exhibition of a significant body of work This module will offer you opportunities to demonstrate and expand on the practical, critical and contextual dimensions of your practice and present it through a variety of platforms. You will engage in contemporary display strategies through planning, production, presentation and the evaluation of curatorial practices and exhibitions. You will focus on professional ways of situating your practice in a specialized context and work towards professional opportunities and collaborations with key cultural institutions in the industry and sector. As a Level 6 student in the School of Art you will build on your previous experiences and progress your work towards external audiences. You will focus your organisational and logistical skills through independent enquiry and be expected to make use of your personal study hours.

The School of Art houses a range of purpose-built studio spaces and workshops with an extensive range of professional equipment not available in schools and colleges. Students at the School of Art are taught by practicing artists and designers working in academic and technical roles. These specialist practitioners teach both fundamental skills, support experimental and speculative practice and ensure practice is underpinned by knowledge and awareness of contemporary contexts.

The course is taught by internationally exhibiting specialists in portraiture, performance, landscape, phototherapy, personal identities, archives – stories and narratives and the everyday. You will work alongside staff and other professionals to become self-motivated and critically-aware of the developing careers within contemporary photographic practice. Live projects and off-site shows provide additional professional experiences and networking opportunities whilst considering the audience, appropriate publication and future employment.

During your degree, you will work in our exceptional darkrooms (black and white, colour), digital scanning and editing suites, a digital printmaking facility, and spacious, purpose-built studios that are all supported by subject-specific technical specialists. We provide all photographic equipment – from cameras to darkrooms and lighting kit – in order to facilitate the successful production of your work throughout the course.

The BA (Hons) Photography in particular is distinctive in its approach because you will:

• Contribute to a creative student culture
• Share and collaborate your ideas and practice within an Art School
• Work with staff who are published, exhibited and knowledgeable
• Undertake contemporary and live assignments
• Publish work
• Have open access to professional darkrooms and digital facilities - check them out here
• Create personal and professional portfolios using our industry standard studios and equipment

The member of academic staff who leads this course is Dr. Euripides Altintzoglou

The Photography course provides you with all the necessary skills that enable you to thrive in the exciting and fast-moving creative industries. Typical employment for our alumni includes work as magazine editors, exhibiting photographers, artists and curators, freelance studio and fashion photographers, editorial and documentary photographers including sport and those who work in the broader industries of publishing, museums and galleries, community artists, curators and educators. These diverse career paths are introduced to you through a number of ‘live’/professional projects giving invaluable professional experiences and real assignments during study. A number of our students opt for further study either at Masters level or study for a PGCE and these individuals are seeking to develop their skills in practices such as arts and health, art curatorial practices and other Masters degrees by research.

All of our students have the opportunity to engage with an additional ‘Employability Award’ associated with their degree, and a high percentage of our students achieve the gold standard.

All courses in the School of Art are now available with a professional placement option (Sandwich Year). A professional placement provides an opportunity for professional development in the workplace and as such, greatly enhances the students’ prospects of finding rewarding and relevant employment at the end of their studies. The school assists students in securing work placements, undertaking live briefs, engaging directly with employers and developing key employability skills. The School is committed to raising student awareness of the opportunities that exist post-graduation.

Location Mode Fee Year Home/EU Full-time £9250 per year 2020-21 Home/EU Part-time £3050 per year# 2020-21 Home Full-time £9250 per year 2021-22 Home Part-time £3100 per year# 2021-22