History Of Photography (Postgraduate Certificate)
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Photography has become the major form of image-making and visual communication since its development in the nineteenth century. Its importance has been recognised in many areas of scholarship: history of art, media and cultural studies, literature, memory and memorialisation, gender and identity, philosophy and law. Its role in all fields of the arts and sciences, including those most personal, is being expanded, renewed and questioned by contemporary digital cultures.
Our Postgraduate Certificate in History of Photography enables you to learn about - and to negotiate your individual path through - past and present photographic practices and cultures, in order to develop your interests, whether your engagement with the medium is academic, artistic, personal or vocational.
You will develop subject-specific and transferable research, critical and writing skills that will enhance your career opportunities in the field and beyond, whether in academia or teaching, photography as a practice, galleries and museums, or in the media.
This certificate offers you the opportunity to study with internationally recognised experts. Our teaching staff are defining the field, conducting groundbreaking research in the history and theory of photography in its various uses and manifestations. You will work closely with our staff while also benefiting from our diverse and vibrant student body of all ages and backgrounds. The teaching programme is enriched by the international research culture of the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre. You can take part in exclusive visits to photographic archives and exhibitions.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in academia/teaching, the creative arts, media and photography. Possible professions include higher education lecturer, museum/gallery curator, or photographer. This degree may be useful in becoming a community arts worker, advertising art director, or press photographer.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
A second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in a relevant subject or equivalent (for example, professional experience).
For students with a degree in a subject other than history of art, the one-year part-time Graduate Certificate in History of Art and Architecture can be used as a conversion course. Students who successfully complete the Graduate Certificate with merit will normally be guaranteed a place on this programme.
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Subjects
- Media
- Teaching
- Staff
- Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
- Design
- Visual Communication
- Art design
- Art
- Image
- Communication Training
- Aesthetics
- Art Photography
Course programme
The programme consists of a compulsory module and a choice of option modules. These assessed elements are supported by a series of research skills workshops.
The compulsory module, Frameworks: Histories and Theories of Art, Architecture, Photography, is designed to explore methodologies and issues involved in the current study of the discipline. Elements of the module are taught to a combined group of History of Art, History of Architecture and History of Photography students, while others are specific to the History of Photography programme.
Options cover a wide range of photographic practices and cultures, past and present, and allow you to explore diverse methodologies and internationally 'local' practices.
The option modules listed below are a selection of those offered in past years.
COMPULSORY MODULE
- Frameworks: Histories and Theories of Art, Architecture, Photography
- Art and Identity: 'Race', Ideology, Culture
- Art and Photography Since 1970
- Art and War 1814-2004
- Curating Difficult Histories: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Activism
- Exhibiting the Pain of Others: Museums, Violence and Memory
- Fashioning the Body
- Photography and the Brazilian 'Image World' circa 1840-1950
- Photography and the Index
- Photography in the Archives: Issues for Nineteenth-Century Photography
- The Book Unbound
Additional information
Part-time international students: £5340 pa
History Of Photography (Postgraduate Certificate)