36 monthsProgramme duration
30,890 GBPTuition Fee/year
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
BA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography engages with real- world issues to form a new generation of practitioners who can critically reflect on the role of photography and moving image in promoting social change. The course is deeply committed to diversity, inclusivity, and ethical storytelling: understanding how we as documentary image makers relate to, impact, and influence the people whose stories we tell.
We see documentary photography as an umbrella term under which photojournalism, documentary, and other related forms of storytelling, including moving image, exist.
These genre boundaries continue to develop and shift within the contemporary media landscape, and this course will equip you to explore and work within this area in a self-defined, flexible and creative way.
By supporting you to develop an understanding of the cultural, social, theoretical, ethical, and historical contexts within which photojournalists and documentary practitioners work, we will explore and challenge the various ways that ‘subjects’ have been documented and reframed, and how historical legacies impact upon our actions today as contemporary image- makers. Project outcomes on the course might include photojournalistic or documentary photo stories, editorial photoshoots, photobooks or ‘zines, data or research- driven projects, documentary films and moving image projects and installations.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
BA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography engages with real- world issues to form a new generation of practitioners who can critically reflect on the role of photography and moving image in promoting social change. The course is deeply committed to diversity, inclusivity, and ethical storytelling: understanding how we as documentary image makers relate to, impact, and influence the people whose stories we tell.
We see documentary photography as an umbrella term under which photojournalism, documentary, and other related forms of storytelling, including moving image, exist.
These genre boundaries continue to develop and shift within the contemporary media landscape, and this course will equip you to explore and work within this area in a self-defined, flexible and creative way.
By supporting you to develop an understanding of the cultural, social, theoretical, ethical, and historical contexts within which photojournalists and documentary practitioners work, we will explore and challenge the various ways that ‘subjects’ have been documented and reframed, and how historical legacies impact upon our actions today as contemporary image- makers. Project outcomes on the course might include photojournalistic or documentary photo stories, editorial photoshoots, photobooks or ‘zines, data or research- driven projects, documentary films and moving image projects and installations.
Admission Requirements
The course team welcomes applicants from a broad range of backgrounds from all over the world. The course attracts students who apply direct from A-level (or equivalent) or from Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, or other art or design courses, as well as mature students who may have previously worked in industry.
The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:
104 UCAS tariff points which can be made up of one or a combination of the following accepted full level 3 qualifications:
- Three A Levels at BCC or above (preferred subjects include: English; History; Media; Business; Art and Design, or other subjects within Social Sciences).
- Distinction at Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Level 3 or 4).
- Distinction, Merit, Merit at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects: Art and Design, IT & Computing, Media, Music and Performing Arts).
- Merit at UAL Extended Diploma.
- Access to Higher Education Diploma (preferred subject: Digital and Creative Media, Film and Production) – 104 tariff points.
- OR equivalent EU/International qualifications, such as International Baccalaureate Diploma at 24 points minimum
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