Photography BA(Hons) single honours

The course is designed to develop your individual creative voices alongside your professional skill levels, within a multi-genre approach to the medium. The course takes maximum advantage of Kingston's proximity to the vibrant art, photography and cultural life of London, one of the major photographic art and commercial centres of the world.

You'll be encouraged to explore, experiment and expand your understanding and appreciation of your potential and application of photography. You will contribute to a vital photographic culture alongside your peers, increasingly developing your own interests and ambitions.

Study includes both analogue and digital photography with the key focus on your creative ideas and critical development as a photographic practitioner.

You'll get to use a range of professional-grade facilities and equipment, from high-end digital capture, dedicated photography studios and darkrooms (analogue and digital). There will be opportunities to work with historic manual processes such as cyanotypes and salt prints as well as other ‘craft' processes including creating unique one-off photobooks.

You will have the opportunity to study a foreign language, free of charge, during your time at the University on a not-for-credit basis as part of the Kingston Language Scheme. Options currently include: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Applicants will need a minimum of 104 tariff points from recognised level 3 qualifications to include an Art or Design subject such as Foundation Diploma in Art or Design or an Art/Design related A-level or recognised equivalent.

Plus GCSE Candidates are normally required to hold five GCSE subjects grades A*–C including Mathematics and English Language (or comparable numeric score under the newly reformed GCSE grading).

Key Skills Level 2 may be used in lieu of GCSE English and Maths.