Honours Degree
If you’re passionate about joining the next generation of visual artists who use photography in their work, then this programme can help you realise your potential.
Approaching photography as a creative fine art, it provides you with the technical knowledge and critical tools necessary to develop your projects.
It embraces all major photographic styles as a means of artistic expression, from staged studio shoots to documentary and gallery installation.
Working in extensive facilities with dedicated technicians, you’ll learn to use both traditional and digital photographic equipment and processes to realise your ideas.
Regular individual tutorials and group seminars encourage analysis and self-reflection, and support the development of your personal practice inspired by the history and theories of photography and fine art.
You will be taught by distinguished staff who cover a wide range of skills and professional experience, including Turner Prize nominee Richard Billingham.
An exciting programme of national and international study visits provide a unique opportunity for you to engage with a wide range of contemporary art.
A strong emphasis on work placements and a range of exhibition opportunities will help you realise career ambitions as artists and in creative industries.
Some of our modules
- The Constructed Image
- Personal Project
- The Narrative
- The Photograph
- Photographic Exhibition
Benefits
- taught by renowned and established contemporary photo-artists
- international exchange programmes (eg with Bangladesh) and regular study visits in UK and Europe
- dedicated facilities, including studios, digital and analogue equipment and processes
Career paths
- exhibiting and publishing artist
- postgraduate study (MA/PhD in Fine Art or Photography)
- photography industry
- curator or arts administrator
Are there any placements for this course?
Compulsory placement.
How will the course be assessed?
Portfolios, essays, research sketchbooks, and exhibitions.
Entry requirements
- points for degree: 260 using the UCAS tariff system
- entry is by interview and portfolio
- entry qualifications include: foundation course in art and design, BTEC General Art and Design course, Advanced VCE, Access to Art and Design
Study options
Full-time and part-time
Location
Centre for Art and Photography (Hardwick)