Photography BA(Hons) (Online)

Through practical and critical enquiry, you will be supported to disrupt, experiment and question creative processes. This initial stage of the online Photography degree requires courage to test, and curiosity to explore. You will be joining an immersive community culture, collectively growing skills, embracing innovation and encouraging creative endeavour.  

Through live briefs, and online workshops and lectures, you will be introduced to a range of creative processes, from critical thinking to practical hands-on skills across different photographic mediums. You will also begin to engage with a wider industry context, preparing you for the future workplace.  

Modules

Explore

You will immerse yourself in the course from week one, through experimentation with a range of photographic approaches and camera and post-production techniques. 

Source

This written module aims to refine your professional collaboration and research skills, helping you to develop important industry awareness at an early stage in your studies, preparing you for a range of careers in the creative industries. 

Make 

This photographic practice module develops your image making and post-production skills and refines your use of materials, process and techniques. It will involve you exploring the world around you, finding exciting ways to make images using film, digital or alternative processes.  

Reflect 

This module focuses on your critical thinking skills, and how you use research and image analysis to better understand the context of photographs. Through the lens of sustainability, you will explore how your own and others’ images can communicate with impact. 

Advancing and deepening your technical skills, you will experiment and begin to specialise in certain areas of photographic practice by exploring responses to set briefs. You will have opportunities to collaborate with others on your degree and industry partners, to produce ambitious group projects using online platforms.  

You'll grow an awareness of audience, refining your practical and critical research skills, project management, and your knowledge of contemporary photography, history and theory. As you progress through this stage, you will begin to develop your own self-initiated projects and collaborations. As more industry-facing experiences begin to be introduced, you will be challenged to question convention, disrupt, innovate and maintain courageous thinking.

Modules

Define

This module aims to develop your ability to shape ideas and photographic outcomes, and to interrogate ethical and sustainable approaches to your practice. 

Audience

Using an array of research methods, you will develop creative photographic responses to contemporary issues; exploring social, ethical and environmental problems.  

Innovate

Applying the knowledge and skills you have developed so far, this self-directed practice module will harness your ability to generate innovative photographic responses to a variety of challenges, underpinned by your developing critical voice.

Collaboration

Working as part of a team, you'll work on 'Challenge Briefs' that reflect the sort of assignments you could expect to be working on in industry. Developing your 'soft skills', like communication, problem-solving, critical thinking and leadership, you'll sharpen your ability to work well as part of a group to produce outstanding work.

This stage supports you to refine your photographic approach and to challenge your emerging fields of interest, culminating in a final photography portfolio and a contextual report that grounds your work. You will build core skills and reflect critically on your strengths, exploring alternative models of practice that help define your creative future beyond the course.  

Modules

Develop

This module is designed to enable you to develop your professional identity ahead of your Final Major Project. You will evolve and refine a specialist body of creative, innovative work and identify a future career pathway in the creative industries.

Futures

This entrepreneurial module aims to situate your practice and prepare you with the business skills needed for a successful and dynamic career in the creative industries.   

Frame

In your Final Major Project, you will develop an innovative final photographic portfolio that demonstrates a high level of professionalism and industry level finish, appropriate for your career ambitions.

Frame

This module asks you write a 3,000-word report contextualising your work within the broader industry and identifying future audiences for your practice.