BA (Hons) PHOTOGRAPHY WITH FOUNDATION YEAR

University of East London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

This extended course is perfect if you want a degree in Photography but you don’t meet the standard entry requirements.

First we prepare you for your degree during the Foundation year, bringing you up to speed with academic skills and a firm grounding in the subject. Then you can go on to do the full undergraduate degree.

You could be focusing on the catwalk at a top London fashion show. Or on a commercial shoot for a major magazine advertisement campaign. Or joining one of the world’s best photographers on a job. The course is a practical one, designed to excite and challenge at the same time as it teaches you.

Affiliated to the Association of Photographers, the leading organisation representing professionals in the industry, our course will arm you with the skills to make a living from photography.

It's no coincidence that our graduates have so often gone on to successful careers, establishing highly successful studios or being assistants to the best in the industry.

It’s because they’ve been instructed by renowned photographers in the full range of the subject, from commercial photography, fashion and portraiture to still life, landscape, moving image and fine art.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Docklands Campus, University Way, E16 2RD

Start date

On request

About this course

We’ll teach you how to make the best images both in the studio and on location as you also delve into the history of your subject and research photographic practice.

In the first of your three years here you’ll build confidence in your photographic techniques and equipment, learning subjects such as light balance, lens use and darkroom skills.

Your second year concentrates more on the different genres of photography and their place in today’s world. Then, you’ll be ready for your major final-year project, building the specialist portfolio of your work which could be the passport to a career in photography.

In between, you could enter a photography competition. In 2014, our students finished first, second and third in Canon’s national portraiture contest for students.

Study trips abroad are arranged, too, such as visits to Helsinki’s Aalto University and to Paris Photo, the annual international art fair of photography in the French capital.

Our course shapes and nurtures top-quality photographers. Don’t just take our word for it, though. When photography icon and East End boy David Bailey collected his honorary doctorate from UEL in 2014, he and National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne praised the exceptional standard of our students’ work.

It is little wonder that so many of our graduates have gone on to carve out successful careers in various areas of the business.

Recent success stories include a graduate who worked on movie location in New Zealand photo-graphing The Hobbit. Another did a similar job at Shepperton Studios for the latest Star Wars film.

Meanwhile, Ken Kamara, who worked with Rankin during his course, has been assisting several top photographers on major ad campaigns.

Some of our alumni have set up their own studios to take family and social portraits. Another group set up the innovative new fashion magazine, Tirade.

Every year, our students’ work is featured at the influential Free Range Art and Design show in Brick Lane and some graduates have been snapped up by impressed employers who attend.

Must include passes at A2 in at least 1 subject
Extended Diploma or Diploma
Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level

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Subjects

  • Media
  • Advertising
  • Industry
  • Production
  • Works
  • Branding
  • Market Research
  • Market
  • Art design
  • Design
  • Art
  • Project

Course programme

FOUNDATION YEAR (IF REQUIRED)
  • Professional Life (Mental Wealth) (Core)
  • Art & Design Workshops, Processes & Skills (Core)
  • Art & Design Studio Practice & Portfolio (Core)
  • Art & Design Specialist Workshops, Processes & Skills (Core)
  • Art & Design Specialist Studio Practice & Portfolio (Core)
  • Art & Design Contextual Studies (Core)
YEAR 1
  • Professional Life 1 (Mental Wealth) (Core)
  • Practice 1 (Core)
  • Contextual Studies 1 (Core)
  • Research into Practice 1 (Core)
  • Experimentation and Application 1A (Core)
  • Experimentation and Application 1B (Core)
YEAR 2
  • Professional Life 2 (Mental Wealth) (Core)
  • Practice 2 (Core)
  • Contextual Studies 2 (Core)
  • Research into Practice 2 (Core)
  • Advanced Experimentation and Applications (Core)
  • Advanced Practice (Core)
YEAR 3
  • Professional Life 3 (Mental Wealth) (Core)
  • Practice 3 (Core)
  • Independent Major Project Part A (Core)
  • Independent Major Project Part B (Core)
  • Research into Practice 3 – Global Photography (Optional)
  • Research into Practice 3 – Extended Research Project (Optional)

Additional information

UCAS CODE - W642

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