BA (Hons) Photography Top Up

About This Course

 

This programme is intended to provide students progressing from a relevant FdA programme with the opportunity of gaining a full BA (Hons) in Photography. This Level 6 ‘top-up’ is designed to provide you with the space to select, design and extend an independent photography-based project alongside a written dissertation, as well as exploring the professional contexts in which photography is produced and assembling an exhibition of your work – the latter a vital skill for photographers in many genres.

A core aspect within the study of photography entails an engagement with the variant relationships that exist between areas of photographic practice and their artistic, industrial and social/cultural contexts. You will be encouraged to explore these issues whilst practising independence in terms of the planning, managing and organisation of both a long-term photographic project and an academic research project. Through these areas of practice, you will be required to articulate an appreciation and comprehension of key issues within contemporary photography, encouraging students to extend their photographic practice whilst also demonstrating the ability to situate their methodologies within an awareness of those practiced by other photographers – both contemporary and historical.

The programme is intended to provide you with the skills you need in order to progress on to postgraduate study in photography or related subjects, or to allow you entry into graduate level employment.

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Entry Requirements

You will be required to have successfully completed 240 credits from the first two years of study on a Foundation Degree or DipHE in photography or related discipline, with a minimum average of 50% at level 5.

What You Will Learn

Level 6 (Honours Stage):

  • Creative and Professional Development (20 credits)
  • Major Project (40 credits)
  • Dissertation (40 credits)
  • Exhibition (20 credits)

Learning & Teaching Methods

You will be assessed via production of both photographic work (evidenced through an independent major project) and critical engagement with relevant issues within photography (evidenced via a dissertation).

Programme Benefits

At degree level, photography has been delivered within the Institute since 2003. The Institute therefore has both a committed and experienced course team and the resources needed to deliver the course successfully. The BA (Hons) in Photography Top-Up provides students with experience of working in a variety of genres of photography, both commercial and non-commercial, whilst building confidence with equipment and key concepts. The programme is designed to appeal equally to students interested in pursuing a career in commercial photography and those who are interested in photography as a means of cultural and personal expression, or who would like to practice documentary or fine art photography. Upon completion of the major project, you will have self-published your work and will therefore have something with which to market your skills as a photographer when you graduate from the programme. You will also have experience of staging and preparing an exhibition of photographic work.

What Next?

Graduates from the programme may wish to progress on to postgraduate study – for example, an MA in Photography or a related discipline. Graduates may also consider working towards a teaching qualification (a Postgraduate Certificate in Education).Alternatively, graduates may seek employment within the field of photography, either in a self-employed context or working for a larger company/organisation. Previous graduates of our degrees in photography have gone on to work in fields as diverse as photojournalism, fashion photography, advertising and industrial photography, portraiture and social/event photography.On the other hand, graduates may seek to extend their practice in a fine art context, submitting their photographic work for exhibition in gallery-based settings or publication in books or magazines.

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