Part Time Contemporary Photographic Arts - BA (Hons) - Part Time

Contemporary Photographic Arts - BA (Hons) - Part Time
Course Length: 5 Years
Site: West Durrington Campus
Attendance: Part Time
Course Code: DHBCP1

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A-Full fee,
B-Discounted fee for full payment at time of enrolment,
C-Concessionary fee for people in receipt of specified benefits

The Course
A part time version of our Degree course. This creative photo arts course targets those keen to engage with photographic practices in a contemporary context. The critical and questioning philosophy of the course seeks to explore, develop and extend conventional understandings of photography. Through playful investigation, experimentation and risk taking, students evolve creative uses of photography and related media forms in an arts based context. Learning develops in a student-centred context of open discussion, debate and critical engagement with developing work.
The course supports the individual's own creative journey and is tutored by a team of practising artists with extensive subject knowledge in the field of photographic and media arts.
Across the five year programme, students develop an understanding of professional practice through exhibition projects and are prepared for post-graduate life equipped with a portfolio of individual and collaborative photographic art works.
Contact Dave Yorath for further details: 01903 606253.

Course Content
Creative workshops : a programme of intensive skills and ideas workshops exploring the interface between visual technologies and art practice.

• Themed projects: ideas of mind, body, vision and visual technologies are explored with students creating their own work on these themes.
• Independent projects: the development of an individual programme of project work.
• Location projects: two short projects responding to urban and rural locations beyond the College.
• Research projects: a lecture programme, drawing on the histories of visual technologies, establishes core subject knowledge. Study skills sessions and seminars contextualise ideas and enable the in-depth debate of issues and interests.
• Photo Arts techniques: a more advanced series of technical skills input.
• Themed projects: explore 'Place and Time' and 'Memory and Forgetting'.
• Independent projects: ongoing development of personal practice.
• Critical research projects: theoretical and historical research grounded in student interests.
• Exhibition project: students create work for and curate an exhibition/screening of their work on a theme of their choice in a public space.

Students build on the concepts and skills acquired in the previous years to prepare a Minor and Major project. This will form part of each student's creative portfolio or showreel. Professional Practice skills, including preparing CVs and websites, will also equip them to work in a range of media arts environments.
A substantial piece of research and critical analysis on a subject of their own choice will be submitted as an academic Dissertation.

Progression/Career Path
Graduates from this course go on to a range of careers including: professional photographers, independent photo artists, arts administrators, curators, educators and many other positions within the creative industries. Students are also prepared for further study at postgraduate level, including MA and PGCE.

Entry Requirements
2 A Levels in appropriate subjects; or 1 A and 2 AS Levels in appropriate subjects. Foundation Studies in Art and Design or Photography related subjects or BTEC National Diploma. Mature students with relevant experience are welcome to apply to the BA Programmes. Entry for all programmes is by interview.

Applications
Complete the application form obtainable from the College and send it to:

Admissions Office
Northbrook College
Freepost 975
Littlehampton Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN12 6NU

Further Details
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