Year 1 (national level 4):

• Genres of Photography (20 credits)

An introduction to the way of working in the photography department and the study skills you will need for your practical and written work.

• The Digital Image: Moving and Still (20 credits)

Explore how digital technology has impacted on video and photography and develop your own work informed by technical skills and contemporary practitioners, from Video Art to YouTube and inkjet prints to Instagram.

• Realist Photography (20 credits)

Explore realist approaches to photography, from social documentary to landscape photography and learn black and white film processing and printing.

• Studio Photography (20 credits)

Explore the possibilities of light in your images through using studio lighting and different format cameras. Extend your technical, aesthetic and practical skills and consider how to an image in the studio.

• History of Photographic Genres (20 credits)

Take a look at the historical development of different areas within photography by looking at portraiture, landscape, still life, advertising, fashion, documentary, architecture, photo-montage and art.

• The Alternative Print (20 credits)

Think differently about the photographic print in a module divided into two sections. Consider the digital print and how to make a high-quality digital photographic print, and get an introduction to a range of alternative print processes.

Some modules have prerequisites. Read more about what this means in our Help and Advice article.

Year 2 (national level 5):

• Colour Photography (20 credits)

Gain a practical and intellectual understanding of how colour photographic images are seen and used as a medium of personal expression.

• The Image (40 credits)

Put your work into the public domain and explore the challenges of how to communicate with an audience. Get real-world experience of working in a professional setting.

• Photography and Critical Theory (20 credits)

Get an introduction to the main critical ideas and theoretical concepts which have informed photographic practice since the 1960s.

• Photography and Narrative (20 credits)

Explore different ways of story-telling through photography. Learn how to sequence your work to create either a book or a multi-media piece, and consider the impact of text and/or sound with your imagery.

• Self-Negotiated Project A (20 credits)

Initiate your own individual project and develop your working practice. Working closely with the academics you will be working within a professional environment and enhance your skills, from production and editing to motivation and research skills.

Final Year (national level 6):

• The Commission (20 credits)

Look at professional photographic practice and commissioning.

• Self-Negotiated Project B (40 credits)

Build on the experience already encountered at Stage 2. Initiate a project of independent study and visual practice, reviewed at regular group and individual tutorials.

• Research Project (20 credits)

Explore an interdisciplinary approach to the theory, history and practice of the photographic image as a form of representational expression.

• Exhibition/Presentation (40 credits)

Develop a self-negotiated project. Submit the work as your final degree level presentation.