Photography BA (Hons)

You'll master professional gear while learning everything from basic camera use to studio tricks and digital processes. Enhance your problem-solving skills and your creative response to project briefs. Team up with others to strengthen your industry skills. We’ll also show you how to manage your time and resources well.

You’ll finish with the technical know-how and flexibility for success in actual photography assignments.

You’ll dive into different photographic styles, techniques, and themes with practical activities. Build essential academic skills, including attending tutorials, giving presentations, and reflecting critically on your work. 

We’ll teach you research methods to enhance your photography. Learn how to use your time and resources effectively to achieve your objectives. Practice and polish your practical photography and presentation skills. Get constructive feedback to improve your work. Begin to find and develop your unique style and voice in photography through experimentation.

This module will give you the crucial knowledge and abilities you need to further your studies and grow as a photographer.

You’ll gain essential professional skills that are vital for industry success. Explore various career options in photography and understand the skills you need for each. Build your experience, portfolio, and connections. Learn to manage your time and resources well. You’ll also focus on important aspects like health and safety, ethics, and getting permissions. Use feedback to improve your techniques.

Get set with the knowledge and practical experience to shine on real photographic projects.

You’ll use what you already know and learn advanced methods in photography and CGI software. By tackling practice tasks that mimic real-life situations, you’ll get better at coming up with ideas, working effectively, and using your technical skills.

You’ll discover new ways to approach both commercial and artistic projects.

This module encourages you to try out different software, take bold steps in your visual work, and come up with clever solutions to tricky problems.

By mastering professional digital tools, you’ll feel more confident in bringing fresh ideas to photography and CGI.

You’ll use what you already know to create work that looks at social, personal, and ethical aspects. By exploring current conversations in photography, you’ll improve your professional production and presentation methods. The best part is creating projects after doing thorough research and experimenting.

This module is key to achieving your photographic goals with more purpose and depth. It will make you more adaptable as a photographer and clearer as a visual storyteller, helping you advance your practice at a graduate level.

You’ll begin with a specific brief, planning and carrying out work that enhances your abilities. Working on your own, you’ll use organised approaches and let research shape your technical and artistic ideas.

This project improves your skills in managing time and resources, as well as using modern techniques. You’ll explore and play with different processes, materials, and methods.

Feedback from tutorials will help you sharpen your ideas through thoughtful analysis. You’ll also learn to present your work professionally.

In the end, you’ll have gained practical experience and research abilities to help you with future photographic projects.

By working on simulated briefs, you’ll enhance your ability to be creative even under pressure and limitations. You’ll also learn important project management and business skills for on-location work, like conducting risk assessments and getting permissions.

Apply what you’ve learned in either a simulated or real freelance job. The work you produce can be added to your professional portfolio.

Learn how to effectively manage your time and resources, work independently, and choose the best solutions, all while following safety protocols.

This module will help you become proficient in processes, materials, and presenting your work to a professional level.

You will research historical and theoretical frameworks, outlining a critical stance on addressing body and space holistically. Communicating analytical findings in written assessments, you will show engagement with the research process. The module enables appreciation of interiority as an evolving assemblage of human and non-human dynamics.

You'll explore early modern Europe's complex world through everyday objects, analysing diverse artefacts - shoes, monuments, religious objects, food - and how they offer new perspectives for our understanding of the past and the present.

You'll consider how the study of objects can lead to new interpretations of historical narratives such as 'the consumer revolution', the development of a global economy, the emergence of new forms of inequality, and changing understandings of public and private.

You'll unearth the multiple lives and 'afterlives' of objects, engaging with debates about their significance and importance in heritage contexts in the 21st century, with access to some of the rich material culture available within the city, including the Mary Rose Museum.

Examine historical representation across disciplines to see how images offer bold perspectives throughout history, as you sharpen your analytical skills by comparing different visual histories and academic arguments.

You'll discuss critical issues in using visual culture as a form of historical storytelling. When you finish this module you'll be ready to choose a topic for your final year project.

You'll explore design, fashion, illustration, photography, film, television and online materials associated with feminist art canons, representation of disability and the treatment of victims of true crime on screen. You'll also consider research methods and to prepare for your final year project.

Through a study exchange overseas, you'll manage tasks and projects relevant to your course, working independently or collaboratively as part of a team.

The experience enables you to showcase your talents on a global stage while reflecting on your personal growth. With enhanced employability prospects, you return home with a new perspective to inform your practice.

Join a team of creative students and do a project together. Try new things and see how they can help you.

You’ll also grasp how to use your skills with others. Sometimes you’ll be a leader, sometimes a helper. Talk about your ideas and learn from them. You’ll make something to show what you learned and share it with others.

This module helps you gain new skills and understand other fields. You’ll be a smart and creative person, ready to solve real-world problems.

You’ll choose learning tasks that add up to 60 hours, like internships, volunteering, research, or remote study that match your career plans. Workshops will help you make meaningful goals and think about what you’ve accomplished. Through this, you’ll grow the knowledge, skills, and qualities you need to thrive in the workplace.

By looking at your growth through active participation and reading, you’ll become a perceptive, eager job-seeker who stands out.

As a team, you will embark on a journey of entrepreneurship, starting with ideation and ending with the launch of your product or service. You will analyse complex factors influencing a successful launch, conduct thorough research to assess feasibility and gain valuable insights into marketing, manufacturing, and sales strategies.

Working together on pitch presentations, you will discover your strengths as an entrepreneur or team member. This module provides transferable skills essential to thrive in creative industries, whether you plan to launch your own company or seek employment with top organisations. You will develop the mindset and abilities to spot opportunities and act on them, which will benefit your career.

You’ll get into theory, look at real-life examples, and creative ideas from various fields. Try out different ways to express your ideas, from drawing to mapping to building models. You’ll work alone and with others to explore themes in projects you choose.

This module gives you the freedom to pursue your interests through both research and practical work.

You’ll learn skills you can use in many areas by handling information and sharing ideas about designing spaces of all sizes.

You’ll handle everything yourself, from coming up with the idea to presenting it professionally. Through detailed research and experimenting, you’ll create an impressive collection of photos. By looking at different methods and results, you’ll be able to explain your ideas and take on board what others say.

This module helps you learn how to use various techniques for creating powerful public displays. Be prepared for a career in photography by improving your skills in managing your time, working with others, and connecting with the industry.

You’ll explore different writing, including exhibition texts, press releases, blogs, and reviews. You’ll learn how to keep readers interested and explain complex ideas clearly.

You'll practice expressing visual culture, writing for online platforms, and applying your skills in real-life situations like grant applications.

You’ll also learn to describe your own art in a way that non-specialist people can understand, using historical and cultural contexts.

This module will teach you to write effectively in various situations, helping you succeed in many jobs in the creative industries.

Through lectures and workshops, you'll examine historical and theoretical approaches to practice-based research. Working with lecturers, you'll develop a portfolio of exploratory work and written content to inform your final project.

You will challenge traditional definitions and experiment with new digital techniques and workflows to develop a conceptually and critically strong body of work.

This module includes lectures, workshops and real business trips to help you discover various job opportunities that align with your skills and interests. We will assist you in identifying your strengths and creating an online portfolio to showcase your work.

The crux of this program is to help you develop a five-year plan for your career, based on what you learn about jobs that excite you. We will teach you about networking, how to apply for jobs, excel in interviews, and present yourself professionally.

Upon completion of this module, you will have gained more knowledge, a sense of confidence, and valuable contacts to assist you in kickstarting your creative career after graduation.

During this module, you'll spend 6 months working on your own business venture, then 3 months gaining industry experience. This opportunity allows you to apply what you've learned in a practical setting while exploring different career options. You'll also have the chance to develop professional relationships and expand your network.

Assess your personal strengths and weaknesses to set goals for the future. Throughout the module, you'll demonstrate increasing independence while still valuing the support of others. Gain a broader understanding of the world through real-world experiences and insights. Additionally, you'll earn valuable credits for your CV and enhance your skill set.

By the end of this module, you'll graduate with the practical experience that employers are seeking.

This experience lets you learn firsthand how to set up and run a small business. You’ll absorb professional practices and business situations that matter to your entrepreneurial goals. Make important connections while working independently within set rules. Think deeply about your strengths, weaknesses, criteria for success, and future plans.

This opportunity is useful for your career. It lets you use what you’ve learnt in your degree in the real world and helps you understand your capabilities.

After finishing this placement and the related assessments, you’ll get more credits for your sandwich degree. This practical experience is a valuable step in developing an entrepreneurial way of thinking.

You’ll spend 24–48 weeks at a chosen company, learning from professionals and helping out with actual projects. Gain confidence, knowledge, and skills by taking on more responsibility with gradually less help. As you progress, you’ll make professional connections and think about how you’re doing. Take in what you learn about how industries and businesses work.

This placement is an ideal chance to grow in your career. By using what you’ve learnt in a workplace, you’ll understand more about your own strengths, what you need to work on, and your plans after you graduate.

After this placement and the related assessments, you’ll get extra credits for your sandwich degree. This practical experience is a valuable part of your education.

Complete relevant tasks demonstrating your specialised skills and independence.

Gain global perspective, reflect deeply on personal growth, and build valued transferable abilities for professional life after university. Return home with experiences that inspire your practice and understanding of art’s global connectivity.

Evaluating international contexts, you'll critically relate on-site activities to your disciplinary knowledge, gaining global insights. Working independently overseas, you'll complete relevant assignments, refining skills transferable to future creative studies and practice.

Upon returning, thoughtful reflection will reveal your personal growth as you process new worldviews and cross-cultural competencies. This invaluable opportunity provides a chance to broaden your creative knowledge while developing adaptability as a global citizen.