Faculty of Creative Industries - Cardiff - University of South Wales

Bachelor BA (Hons) Photography - Grado en Fotografia

Faculty of Creative Industries - Cardiff - University of South Wales
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Presentación

Study photography in Cardiff, Wales’ young and exciting capital city. Our photography degree offers a broad based approach to studying the medium of photography, allowing you to nurture your creativity and work towards a chosen specialism.

You will develop skills in both digital photography and traditional silver-based photographic techniques. Your studies will include fashion and advertising photography, the photographic arts and the use of technologies associated with the subject.

This largely practical photography degree is underpinned with the study of the history of photography, combined with an exciting engagement with critical and cultural studies.

Field trips enrich your learning and employment prospects are boosted by opportunities to work on live brief projects in both the commercial and cultural sectors.

Requisitos

Titulo de Bachillerato or the Selectividad with an average mark of 6.
Curso de Orientación Universitaria (COU) with an average mark of 6.
Técnico Especialista (Formación Profesional – segundo grado).
Ingeniero Técnico (from Escuela de Ingeniero Técnico).
Diplomado / Diplomatura.
English language qualifications:

GCSE pass in English at Grade C or above
IELTS with an average overall score of 6.0 with at least 5.5 in each component
TOEFL IBT minimum score for Undergraduate of 80 IBT
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): exams taken from January 2015 – overall score of 169 with at least 162 in each component ; exams taken before January 2015 – Grade C and no less than borderline in each skill
Trinity College English Language qualifications: ISE II Distinction or ISE III Pass for undergraduate courses
City and Guild’s IESOL/ISESOL tests, in some cases, we may also be able to accept the communicator level (B2)
Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) with a minimum of 51 points in each element for the majority of undergraduate programmes
Don’t worry if you do not meet these requirements, we run a number of courses to prepare you for academic studies

Programa

The first year of the photography degree introduces and explores key concepts that are relevant to contemporary photographic practice through challenging practical projects. All practical modules – whether based in fashion, advertising or fine-art photography – will develop your technical skills and provide stimulating assignments to develop your creativity. Skills will be enhanced in both digital and analogue photographic techniques and you will engage in other relevant media such as moving image and sound.

As you move through the photography course, it will reinforce your emerging photographic practice through a sound knowledge of the history of photography and an awareness of contemporary developments in the medium. The contextual elements of the course will encourage you to think critically about photography and its impact on culture and society.

Year One

Photography and the Real
Photography and Illusion
Photography as Narrative
Photography and Responsibility
Critical Practice 1: Histories
Critical Practice 2: Languages
Year Two

Defining Practice
Negotiated Project
Critical Practice 3: Paradigms
Critical Practice 4: Research
Year Three

Refining Practice
Dissertation
Professional Resolution
Modules and course content may vary depending on year of entry.

Learning and teaching methods
The emphasis of this photography degree is practice, but it also contains theoretical elements that provide context. The practical teaching is delivered through a combination of workshops, lectures and tutorials, with screenings, gallery visits, field trips and other events.

You will usually develop your practical work individually, but will occasionally work in groups.

You will have guidance on assignments but will also be expected to work in a self-directed way, especially in your final year Major Project that concludes with a public exhibition. Most theory modules have seminar sessions as well as lectures.

Salidas profesionales

The diversity of course content, in practical and theoretical modules, ensures that you graduate with an all-round critical understanding of photography and its relationship to a range of other media forms.

Graduates have gone on to a range of career paths with many successfully entering the photographic industries. These include commercial fields such as advertising and fashion, as well as art contexts such as work for the gallery, museum and other cultural sectors. Graduates often go on to study photography at postgraduate level leading to a range of enhanced opportunities in the field of photography.

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