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Course summary

This renowned photography course gives you the opportunity to develop your passion for making, using and analysing images. If you enjoy engaging with the world around you, through observational or constructed photographic practice, and want to explore the medium’s potential to inform, influence or entertain, then studying with us will allow you to develop a unique and personal visual language to this end.

UCAS COURSE CODES:

route A: W640
route B: E640

Course highlightsStudent centred programme
Impressive record of prizewinning photography students
Unique Set Construction Project
Well-established overseas exchange programme in year two
Residential overseas Field Trip
Nationally and internationally recognised staff team

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

Postgraduate Admissions
Faculty of Arts

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