BA (Hons) Photography Bachelor's degree at the Arts, London

This unit acts as an introduction to the course and to your subject specialism. Topics covered include effective learning and studentship at undergraduate level as well as an introduction to basic technical skills.

This unit introduces you to different ways of experimenting and making with photography. Throughout the unit, you'll take part in a series of hands-on workshops designed to help you try new ideas, take creative risks, and discover a range of photographic approaches.

This unit aims to develop a critical capacity to look at, discuss and understand photographic images. Through a series of lectures and seminars we will exchange ideas about the histories and possible futures of photography.

This unit invites you to develop a photographic project through the form of a photobook. Through lectures and practical workshops, you'll learn about photobook forms and design principles, including layout, sequencing, binding, and how image and text work together to build meaning and narrative. You'll also be introduced to key professional tools such as software for design.

In this unit, we look at how photography can be used to draw attention to contemporary issues of power and representation. We explore photographic practices that engage with contemporaneous social issues, including forms of activism, documentary art practice, social justice and research as practice. The unit presents a series of lectures, seminars and practical moving image and sound editing workshops.

This unit explores photography as an expanded and interdisciplinary practice. You'll investigate how photographic thinking can be extended through processes that could include moving image, sound, and computational processes such as AI and photogrammetry. Undertaking a series of experiments, you'll develop your own practice project exploring photography in expanded ways, linking these forms to ecological ways of thinking.

This unit provides you with the opportunity to choose from a number of live briefs set by industry partners. Through this process you'll share skills and expertise by collaborating with others and gain insight from working on projects that are set in a variety of external-facing contexts.

This unit develops your individual creative practice as a form of professional cultural production. It will explore ways of exhibiting work in public, through the spaces of contemporary visual arts in London and beyond, considering curation and exhibition production in these different contexts. You'll produce your own creative work and develop ways of exhibiting or disseminating your work that's appropriate for your creative and conceptual vision.

The aim of this unit is to provide a clear foundation of research methods necessary to further your theoretical and practical work. The unit will support the close and critical reading of images and texts and develop strategies through which images and texts can be combined to produce arguments in the form of an essay or research publication, with clear communicable conclusions, preparing you for Year 3.

In this unit, you will research, produce, and present a substantial self-directed research project and further develop connections between practice and theory. This work might consist of an extended written research project, an audio-visual essay or a research/practice output with a written component; all of which you will work on with the support of specialist supervisors.

In this unit you'll begin the exploratory process of researching and making visual work towards your final major project. You'll develop a written proposal, complete a risk assessment and begin to make work that will be further developed in the Major Project 2 unit.

Major Project 2 builds on your interests and knowledge acquired from previous units to produce a significant body of practice-based work. You'll be supported in conducting in-depth research and technical / methodological experimentation, which on completion will demonstrate sophisticated understanding and articulation of your own practice.

This unit asks you to consider your future goals and how best to prepare yourself for your career after university. You'll undertake extensive research into your chosen career field and produce a creative identity package that supports your future goals. You will be supported in developing a professional CV and online presence, and you will learn how to market yourself to future employers.