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This concentration allows students to work with film, digital and alternative photography. Independent study and studio projects give students a sound foundation.

Required course for concentration (15 semester hours):MCOM 122 Film Photography 3
MCOM 222 Digital Photography 3
VART 318 Portrait Photography 3
VART 319 Color Photography 3
VART 360 Film and Photo Visual Culture 3

Select 6 hours from the following:VART 202 Art and Culture Travel Studies 3
MCOM 237 Intro to Video Production 3
VART 250 Screen Printing 3
VART 311 Digital Art 3
VART 316 Studio Lighting 3
VART 317 Documentary Photography 3
VART 320 Alternative Photo Practices 3
MCOM 325 2-D Animation 3
VART 413 The Photobook 3
VART 492 Topic in Photography 1-6
VART 495 Directed Study 3
VART 496 Independent Study 3
VART 497 Individual Studio – Design

This concentration develops fundamental design, drawing and contemporary art practices. Students integrate skills and technology and exhibit their work.

Required course for concentration (12 semester hours):VART 251 Intermediate Drawing 3
VART 252 Intermediate Painting 3
VART 497 Individual Studio Projects 6

Select 9 hours from the following:VART 199 Topic in Art 3
VART 202 Art and Culture Travel Studies 1-3
VART 253 Ceramics 3
VART 254 Figure Drawing 3
VART 301 Advanced Drawing 3
VART 302 Advanced Painting 3
VART 311 Digital Art 3
VART 318 Portrait Photography 3
VART 319 Color Photography 3
VART 320 Alternative Photo Practices 3
VART 322 Sculpture 3
VART 323 Installation Art 3
VART 324 Performance Art 3
VART 360 Film and Photo Visual Culture 3
VART 412 Contemporary Art Practices 2 3
VART 492 Topics in Photography 3
VART 494 Topics in Art 3
VART 495 Directed Study 3
VART 496 Independent Study

This concentration addresses a traditional design core coupled with digital, portfolio and seminar courses. It prepares students for work as a design professional.

Required course for concentration (15 hours):

MCOM 122 Film Photography 3
MCOM 251 Intro to Graphic Communication 3
VART 310 Typography 1 3
VART 311 Digital Art 3
MCOM 351 Digital Imaging and Illustration 3

Select 6 hours from the following:

VART 199 Topic in Art 3
VART 202 Art and Culture Travel Studies 1-3
MCOM 222 Digital Photography 3
VART 319 Color Photography 3
VART 320 Alternative Photo Practices 3
VART 360 Film and Photo Visual Culture 3
VART 410 Typography 2 3
VART 411 Digital Studio 3
MCOM 445 Digital Illustration 3
MCOM 451 Graphic Communication Seminar 3
VART 492 Topic in Photography 3
VART 494 Topic in Art 3
VART 497 Individual Studio – Design 1-6

Courses required for the minor (12 hours):MCOM 122 Film Photography 3
MCOM 222 Digital Photography 3
VART 319 Color Photography 3
VART 360 Film and Photo Visual Culture 3

Select 6 hours from the following:

VART 202 Art and Culture Travel Studies 1-3
VART 311 Digital Art 3
VART 318 Portrait Photography 3
VART 320 Alternative Photo Practices 3
VART 359 20th Century Art 3
VART 492 Topic in Photography 1-6
VART 495 Directed Study 3
VART 496 Independent Study 3
VART 497 Individual Studio Projects 1-6

Aim of the programme

MRes Photography provides an exciting opportunity for students to pursue an individual research project, which may be practice-based, historical, critical, curatorial or theoretical.

Programme highlights

High profile photography department; academic staff exhibit/publish individually and contribute within the Research Centre for Land/Water and the Visual Arts.
Facilities include a purpose built daylight studio; digital and analogue dark rooms.

Entry requirements

A 2:1 honours degree or above in Photography or a related subject; or an equivalent degree from overseas. Evidence that you are ready to pursue your proposed project. IELTS of 6.5 minimum or equivalent.
Duration

1 year full-time or two years part-time
Contact email

artsresearch@plymouth.ac.uk
Contact details

Research & Graduate Affairs
Faculty of Arts

Tel: +44 (0)1752 585030
General programme structure

We particularly welcome research proposals in the following areas: land and environment; camera-less photography; contemporary art practices; documentary and reportage; architectural photography; women’s photography. The programme engages current ideas and debates, skills and methodologies for research into or through photography.

The programme comprises three assessed modules:
Photography, the practice of research, shared with the taught Masters programmes in photography (30 credits)
Research in the Arts and Humanities (30 credits)
A masters thesis or approved research project (120 credits)

The project/thesis may be assessed entirely through written work, or through a substantial practical project accompanied by an extended contextual essay.

Full-time students take Photography, the practice of research in term one, Research in the Arts and Humanities in terms one and two, and their project/thesis across the whole academic year.

Part-time students take the two taught modules in year one and carry out their project/thesis in year two.

The project/thesis is taught via one-to-one supervision during term time and through contact by arrangement up to final submission in September.

Students are also encouraged to attend research seminars in a wide variety of arts disciplines, and the faculty-wide training events.
Detailed programme structure

We will help you to ground your chosen project in the latest theoretical and conceptual approaches in photography studies and beyond. This programme explicitly embeds research skills to prepare graduates for MPhil/PhD programmes.
Teaching and learning will take place through one-to-one meetings/tutorials; group seminars, discussions and workshops; staff/student research seminars; lectures/presentations by staff and visiting practitioners/academics; written feedback;

Aim of the programme

MA Photography and the Land is a thematic award that offers you the opportunity to develop your photographic practice, knowledge and understanding through research and photographic projects exploring issues related to land, landscape and the environment.

Programme highlights

· Staff team with significant international experience in diverse landscape practice
· Southwest location with unique mixture of rural, urban, industrial and leisure landscapes
· Arts faculty energetically developing its inter-disciplinary links
Entry requirements

A good honours degree in photography or a related visual communication subject. Appropriate professional experience may also be considered. An interview, portfolio and written piece of work will be required. IELTS of 6.5 or equivalent.
Duration

1 year full time or two years part time
Contact email

artspostgrad@plymouth.ac.uk
Contact details

Postgraduate Admissions
Faculty of Arts

Tel: +44 (0) 1752 585100
General programme structure

Photography: the practice of research examines models of photographic practice-based research methodology and gives an opportunity to initiate fields of individual visual and conceptual enquiry. You begin a process of consolidating technical understanding relevant to your practice.

Land, landscape and photography historic and contemporary: through critical examination of photographic landscape practices, you familiarise yourselves with, and question, ways in which you can investigate, respond to and engage with issues associated with land and the environment.

MA project proposal: through practice, research, seminars, tutorials and workshops you consolidate the work begun in the first module, defining your MA project proposal and testing this thoroughly through practice.

Interdisciplinary interpretations: landscape practice examines and reflects upon interdisciplinary approaches to the study, interpretation and understanding of land, landscape and environment, linking photography with others fields of knowledge: geographical, ecological, historical, philosophical, etc and provides the opportunity to extend the conceptual frame of your project.

MA photographic project: asks you to resolve an individual project presented in an appropriate form and context to consolidate your MA photographic research practice. A written report provides critical commentary to your practice.

Aim of the programme

MA Photography and the Book is a unique award that offers you the opportunity to develop your photographic practice, knowledge and understanding through the resolution of individual projects where the dominant but not exclusive form of dissemination is a book or bookwork.

It is also intended to provide those with an editorial or curatorial photographic practice with the opportunity to develop and resolve original projects in book forms.

The programme has an ethos of experimentation, creativity, risk-taking, research and authorship which, combined with extended practice, leads to the development of a critical and theoretical understanding of the medium of photography.

Programme highlights

Staff team with extensive international experience of photography and editing, designing and publishing
Full range of new photographic resources in a complex alongside media, design and print resourses
Links with an established Publishing MA

The Scott Building, where you will be based and where these resources are housed, also contains the Faculty’s Printmaking and Letterpress workshops.
Entry requirements

A good honours degree in photography or a related visual communication subject.
Appropriate professional experience may also be considered. An interview, portfolio and written piece of work will be required. IELTS of 6.5 or equivalent.

Duration

1 year full time or 2 years part time
Contact email

artspostgrad@plymouth.ac.uk
Contact details

Postgraduate Admissions
Faculty of Arts

Tel: +44 (0) 1752 585100

General programme structure

Photography: the practice of research examines models of photographic practice-based research methodology and gives an opportunity to initiate fields of individual visual and conceptual enquiry. You begin a process of consolidating technical understanding relevant to your practice.

The photobook: historically and now considers the book as a mode of dissemination of ideas and images, through critical examination of photography books, and books illustrated photographically, historically and now.

MA project proposal: through practice, research, seminars, tutorials and workshops you consolidate the work begun in the first module, defining your MA project proposal and testing this thoroughly through practice.

The photobook: production and publishing develops an understanding of the arenas of editing, design, copywriting, print, binding and the distribution and marketing of photographic books within the contemporary fields of book publishing, through seminars, tutorials, exercises, workshops and visits.

MA Photographic project: asks you to resolve an individual project in the form of a photographic book or bookwork/s, with a report or dissertation providing a critical commentary to your practice. The module therefore provides you with a context to consolidate your MA practice.

COURSE INFORMATION

The Contemporary Photographic Practice programme has been designed to provide students with an understanding of the techniques, theories, research and contemporary usage of photography, within a wide social and cultural context. Early emphasis is placed on methods and materials. At this time students are introduced to the basics of photographic history; how to read photographs; and formative critical theories related to photography. Building on this groundwork the programme then introduces students to key contemporary and post-modern debates relating to the extended range of practices open to a contemporary photographer. However, as the subject itself is continually open to change and re-definition students have an important role in defining and exploring new directions in photographic practice. With this in mind, the Contemporary Photographic Practice degree helps students to develop the range of key skills necessary to be a photographer today and to be able to fully exploit the potential of lens-based practice.

Students are encouraged to identify the subject matter of their photography projects, and in the final year present an exhibition of work made as part of self-initiated (visual) research, and a portfolio for their degree assessment. Previously, students have been supported in a wide range of projects ranging from new approaches to documentary production, desktop publishing, web-based work, digital, video and installation.

The programme is taught by a staff of practising photographers, subject specialists and visiting artists, providing an atmosphere of involved study, research into teaching, theory to practice and importantly, lively debate.

MODULE INFORMATION
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COURSEWORK AND ASSESSMENT

Teaching is through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials with lectures and seminars covering photographic history, theory and contemporary photographic practices. Student project work is developed in workshops and through tutorials.

Students are assessed on a combination of project work, essays, seminars and private study. Assessment of Years 2 and 3 contributes to the final degree award. In the third year, all students submit a dissertation and work towards an exhibition of their final project.

SELECTION
Applications are encouraged from potential students who can offer equivalent or alternative qualifications and also from mature students where the usual requirements may be waived.

CAREERS
The programme teaches key professional skills that will prepare students for a successful career in photography. Students completing the programme are articulate and well informed about a wide range of contemporary issues.

Employment is a key issue and the programme recognises that graduates working in photography will need to be flexible, imaginative, creative and possess a sound technical knowledge. Final year students are helped to gain a formative knowledge of possible career paths, and opportunities through a professional practice module that introduces them to a range of practitioners in both the photographic arts and commercial photography. Recent graduates have stayed on with us, to undertake postgraduate study, whilst others have taken up a variety of artistic and media related careers, including artist, editorial photographer, picture editor, curator, teacher and gallery assistant.

Aims of the course
The MA Film Studies provides an exciting opportunity to study international film from the perspectives of history and cultural identity. Film cultures including Hollywood, European and Indian cinema are explored in ways which demonstrate the strong links and interesting divergences which exist between national cinemas. The course also examines cinema’s significance in representing cultures and identities, considering ideas around stars, sexuality and gender on screen in relation to constantly shifting cultural contexts. The MA Film Studies challenges students to engage in new and thought-provoking ways with the historical and cultural importance of international film.
Entry requirements
Normally an upper second-class Honours degree in a relevant subject. Those with relevant professional qualifications or extensive professional experience will also be considered.
Course structure
You will take 3 core modules, 3 optional modules and a dissertation of around 15,000 words.

Core modules:
Approaches to International Film
Transnational Film History
Approaches to Research

Optional modules include:
Cinema and Nation in European Film
Nationalism and Nation-Building in Indian Cinema
International Film Stardom
Assessment

You are assessed via essays and a final dissertation.
Career opportunities

Successful completion of this course offers improved career opportunities in film and media organisations. The programme is also excellent preparation for further research or study.

Aims of the course
The London Film School’s MA Filmmaking course is designed for graduates and those with equivalent experience in creative practice who wish to pursue a professional-level training in all key departments of filmmaking. You work in small units on six film exercises, of which a minimum of four are shot and delivered on film (16mm and 35mm) and are trained around these exercises to deal with the increasing complexity and the technical demands of the practical work.

You also have to produce a Work and Research Journal for each of the three modules, reflecting on the development of your collaborative work, your skill base and creative priorities. You will study as a director, a director of photography, a camera operator, an editor and as a sound recordist, and you are likely to work, with supporting classes, as a producer, screenwriter or production designer. Although the course is primarily practical and vocational, it includes intensive teaching in film history, film analysis and other contextual studies.

LFS is an international film school (18% UK students) founded in 1956 to teach multi-departmental postgraduate filmmaking. It is one of the few film schools in the world to offer 35mm studio-based filmmaking exercises to students. Graduates include Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Alain Tanner, Anne Hui and Bill Douglas. London Film School is located in the centre of London and this course is validated by London Metropolitan University.
Entry requirements

Most students will have first degrees. However experience has shown that formal educational achievement is not always the best indicator of latent filmmaking talent. Accordingly the School is willing to take appropriate experience into account. Exceptionally you may be admitted on the basis of professional or extensive non-professional film work or experience in a related field.

For students for whom English is a Second Language: TOEFL at grade 550 or higher; IELTS with a score of 6 and no element below 5.5 or higher; Cambridge Proficiency Grade C or higher; Other evidence of spoken or written fluency.
Course structure

The course consists of three essential modules and three Work and Research Journals. The modules are:
Language: Image, Meaning, Style (Leading to Postgraduate Certificate)
Practice: Non-Fiction and Fiction (Leading to Postgraduate Diploma)
Synthesis: Industry and Independents (Leading to MA Filmmaking)
Assessment

Film Exercises and Work and Research Journals.
Career opportunities

LFS Graduates are working in all departments of film and television production throughout the world. They include many directors, cinematographers, editors, sound technicians and production designers as well as those working in production, commissioning, sales and distribution.