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BA (Hons) Photography

University of Salford, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

By providing you with a solid foundation in photographic theory and practice, this photography course will offer you the opportunity to take risks, explore ideas and realise your creative potential. This photography degree course aims to create flexible, resourceful, and creative photographers with well-developed transferable skills, that can be applied to a broad range of commercial, and art-based careers.

You will work with industry-standard equipment and studios to support you from image capture through to exhibition. You will learn to apply a range of practical contemporary photographic and digital skills to explore the creative and intellectual potential of existing, experimental, and digital photographic techniques and their application within the creative arts and media industries.

Some of the career routes that photography graduates go on to include, archivists, art directors, curators, digital artists, exhibiting photographers, freelancers, picture researchers, printers, retouchers, studio managers, teachers, videographers. You will also have the potential to move across into related careers in marketing, branding, technical support, and PR.

You will:

  • Learn to develop your individual creative ability with the support of dedicated practitioners and tutors who have extensive experience in the field

  • Learn to explore a range of professional photographic specialisms

  • Learn your practice with an emphasis on hybrid, experimental and trans-media platforms

General Eligibility

GCSE

English Language at grade C/level 4 or above (or equivalent) is required. Maths at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is preferred but not essential.

You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements as well as one of the requirements listed below.

UCAS tariff points

104-112 points.

A-Level

104-112 points.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1
  • Imagined communities

  • Urban and Rural

  • Street and Studio

  • Photography and the Book

  • Establishing Frameworks

  • Exploring Creative Contexts

2 Year 2
  • Photography in Context

  • Exploring Possibilities

  • Constructing Worlds and Meanings

  • Opportunities and Industry

  • Developing Frameworks

  • Responding to Creative Contexts

3 Year 3
  • Towards Resolution

  • Resolution

  • Applying Frameworks

  • Independent Research Project

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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