Photography | Four years

Postgraduate

Online

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Methodology

    Online

This four-year degree course includes a preparatory year (Year 0), which will give you a focused introduction to photography and film, and help you to develop skills in moving and still image, and in audio production and editing. The initial year will also offer seminars, tutorials, specialist technical workshops and group critiques to support you in adapting to student-centred learning at degree level.

About this course

With a distinguished history stretching back over 60 years, this course will develop and nurture your skills in the studio and the field, capturing models, interiors, landscapes, nature and cities to produce beautiful and meaningful imagery.

As a student on our Photography course in Farnham, you’ll have full access to dark rooms, analogue and digital processing suites, studios, computer labs and an extensive range of cameras, lenses and lighting. You’ll have the freedom and the facilities to spend three years exploring both black and white and colour photography in a creative context.

Studying amongst our unique artistic community also affords you the chance to collaborate and share ideas with fellow students from across the creative industries, including filmmakers, journalists, fine artists and advertisers.

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Subjects

  • Image
  • Project
  • Production

Course programme

Course content - 2017 entry
  • Year 0
  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

Year 0 is a preparatory year which provides you with a focused introduction to your chosen area of study and upon successful completion, it'll secure your place on the three year degree without further application or interview.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules
  • The Poetics of Space

    We'll introduce you to practices and procedures for exploring the relationship of sound to image in time-based productions. Thematic content will be the exploration of ideas about place and space.

  • Personal Research Project

    This unit provides you with the opportunity to explore your own personal creativity by looking at development work by a range of artists, photographers, and filmmakers. The emphasis will be on your personal exploration of ideas and sources of inspiration, resulting in a one-minute moving image project, or a series of 15 still images (which could include text).

  • Practices of Looking

    You'll receive a thorough grounding in the conventions of academic writing and discourse in film and media studies.

  • Storytelling and Staging

    Through an exploration of different forms of storytelling, you'll be encouraged to analyse texts and to create your own stories. You'll also be introduced to ideas of narrative and paintings, and work on the staging of a story.

You'll be introduced to the theoretical study and creative practice of photography, as well as the basic tools needed in the production and manipulation of photographic imagery and text. You'll learn the fundamental technical skills required to progress and develop your practice.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules
  • Documentary and Environment

    You'll research ideas of documentary and experiment with documentary practices. You'll also explore the representation of the urban and the rural environment, and discover ways to represent the world through photography.

  • Photography in Context

    This unit will explore photography's ability to create meaning within relevant theoretical and contextual frameworks.

  • Constructed Image

    You'll investigate the constructed image within a historical context and provide the skills you need to engage with and work with these methods. Workshops will cover studio production, darkroom and digital modes of image making and manipulation.

  • Self-Directed

    This will be your opportunity to design and carry out a photographic project of your choice, defined and agreed with tutors.

This year's about solving the problems of how to represent ideas in photography by thinking strategically. Building on the critical introduction to photography practices and assumptions carried out in Year 1, we'll consider ways of appropriating, modifying, negotiating, challenging or replacing existing conventions of representation.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules
  • Professional Futures

    This unit provides a platform for informed debate both on your own work and the way in which related institutions and professions operate in a political, economical and social context.

  • Critical Approaches

    You'll examine key aspects of a range photographic practices and theory, in relation to their historical origins.

  • Vision and Knowledge

    You'll explore issues raised in various 'objective' photographic practices. Documentary, survey, scientific, medical, forensic and military traditions have at their core the idea that 'seeing is believing', implying that vision and visual representation are equivalent to 'knowledge'.

  • Narrative

    You'll begin to engage with how meaning can be constructed within a single image, often referred to as a 'tableau', or across a series of images or by combining image with text, learning how to tell a story and guide the viewer to a desired conclusion, be it truth, fiction, nonsense or lies.

  • Study Abroad (optional)

    This optional unit is designed to broaden your educational experience and deepen your understanding of cultural diversity. It will enable you to study within a different cultural context and gain fresh perspectives.

You'll have the opportunity to draw on the experience, knowledge and skills acquired so far. A core theme of this year is the major project, where you choose the areas of your practical studies that you'd like to concentrate on. You'll be provided with a range of professional and career planning topics which help you to develop your future career.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules
  • Dissertation

    This covers a substantial period of sustained, individually negotiated research on a subject related to the contextual and/or theoretical concerns of your discipline or chosen area of practice, towards the provision of structured written argument.

  • Independent Study

    You'll pursue a substantial practical project before the final major project.

  • Resolution

    The culmination of your studies will involve the independent and sustained research, development, production and presentation of a substantial photographic project, drawing on everything you've learnt over the three years.

Photography | Four years

£ 9,250 + VAT