BA (Hons) Commercial Photography Bachelor's degree at East London

Develop the skills you need to confidently navigate your future career. You'll engage in real-world professional activities like networking simulations, mock interviews, and digital branding exercises, supported by industry guest speakers and career coaches. Practical sessions will sharpen your communication, research, and critical thinking abilities, while workshops will guide you in building a digital portfolio to strengthen your employability.

Build the academic and professional skills you need for success in the creative and technology industries. You'll develop key study techniques, including effective note-taking, research, academic writing, and digital communication. Through workshops, tutorials, and practical tasks, you'll boost your confidence as an independent learner and strengthen your ability to plan, organise, and deliver assignments.

Strong numeracy and data-handling skills are vital in creative industries. In this module, you'll learn how to interpret graphs, solve problems using digital tools like spreadsheets, and present numerical information clearly. Practical exercises build your confidence with real-world scenarios, supporting your wider academic and professional development.

Understanding how media messages are created and interpreted is essential in today's digital world. This module introduces you to key frameworks for analysing visual media, while also building your ability to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively. You'll design an academic poster using professional software, develop critical thinking around cultural differences, and practise both oral and written communication for academic and industry contexts.

Developing a personal, critical approach to art and design practice is the focus of this module. You'll complete projects exploring materials, techniques, and visual communication, using research-led processes to underpin your creative decisions. Independent thinking is encouraged as you build a portfolio showcasing your growing expertise.

Contextual Studies in the first term equips you to understand the history of fine art, and its relevance today. The module comprises thematic lectures, seminars, screenings and field trips as well as keystone research and writing skills such as the use of citation, referencing and academic integrity appropriate to undergraduate study. The module content will support the development of your practical work on the adjoining modules.

This module serves as a rigorous introduction to creative practice, an overview of fundamental skills that will enable experimentation and application, and the development of your own working practice. The module aims to provide you with an introduction to practical and critical study, to understand the role of research in creative practice and in supporting the development of creative projects.

The module focuses on process, developing skills and practical knowledge encouraging you to discover a range of creative ways of working within the context of your discipline as well as extended practice supporting your developing practice. The module is backed up with regular group tutorials.

This module introduces you to a further range of processes and practices, skills and knowledge, through a series of workshops, projects and electives to extend your practice. Technical introductions and workshops enable you to broaden the scope of your skills and practice, as well as specific workshops pertinent to contemporary processes and methods, including a range of analogue and digital tools.

You will begin to establish an intellectual framework within which you can begin to understand a relationship between theory and your own practice. You will begin to contribute critically in the seminars, in relation to contemporary and historical research methodologies. The module is supported by one-to-one tutorials.

Developing the key psychological and physical determinants of human performance are increasingly critical for successful graduate-level employment, entrepreneurship and career progression in the 4th industrial revolution. This module will provide you with the opportunity to identify the skills, competencies and experience required for successful development to, and in, a range of potential future career areas.

At Contextual Studies Level 5, you will consolidate and continue to advance the theories and research methodologies introduced at Level 4. In addition, you will begin to build a critical thinking and understanding of contemporary art and design production, dissemination and reception within an expanded field. By addressing the historical, political, economic, social, environmental and ethical aspects of art and design, this module aims to equip you with the main discussions concerning these issu

The module enables you to expand on the skills and knowledge from level 4, encouraging you to take risks, try new things, and not to be afraid of learning through mistakes and failure to develop your practice. This, in turn, will help you to begin to define your individual approach to fine art, fine art technology, graphic design, design interaction, illustration, animation and photography.