IELTs 6.0 with minimum of 5.5 in each component
This requirement is for Year One entry only. If you're starting in Year Two or final year you'll need a higher grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component
Explore all aspects of what it means to be a professional photographer in the 21st Century on this degree course.
Learn practical skills including exposure and metering, digital workflow, colour and black and white printing, studio lighting, large and medium format, planning and installing exhibitions, professional photographic portfolio development and moving image.
You’ll work across the subject of photography choosing to focus on areas such as art, documentary, editorial, commercial, advertising and critical writing on photography, tailored to your own personal interests and career aspirations.
With access to traditional and digital photographic facilities with industry-standard equipment, you’ll learn how to use and adopt skills to develop your creativity, working between analogue and digital. Explore a range of self-directed learning experiences combining practice with theory, enabling you to develop the creativity and autonomy to establish your own photographic practice.
Our graduates are leaders within the creative industries and you will be joining an extended alumni club who help us to create opportunities for you in terms of work experience and graduate career prospects
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Year One
Conversations with Photography (20 credit points, full year)
Exploring Photography (100 credit points, full year)
Year Two
Photography and the World (60 credit points, full year)
Futures (20 credit points, full year)
Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-taking (20 credit points, half year)
Optional module
You will also choose one 20-credit module from:
Publishing: Experimental Formats
Telling Stories
Digital Marketing and Communication
The Art of the Video Interview
Final year
Writing Photography (20 credit points, full year)
Photography Final Project (80 credit points, full year)
Photography at NTU has an excellent employment rate, with 96% of students in employment or further study six months after graduating (DLHE 2016/17).
The course prepares you for a career in photography or photo-related activities. Depending on your particular interest, you will identify your practice, and research picture agencies, image libraries, arts organisations, and photographers' agents.
You'll learn about proposals and CVs; how to cost your work; how to prepare estimates and invoices; and your rights, responsibilities and obligations as a photographer.
You’ll enhance your employability through things like live projects, guest lectures, industry visits, trade fairs, and work experience.
The following factors also continue to develop, to support the employability of our students:
live projects
guest speaker series
industry visits
trade fairs
work experience
increasing contacts with creative businesses
success of our alumni
research profile of our academic staff.
Photography students work across the range of the creative Industries when they graduate. Roles include:
photographer
picture editor
artist
retoucher
filmmaker
curator
teacher
marketer
community arts worker
blogger
writer
musician
stylist
archivis
freelancer.
YouFirst – working with our Employability team
Studying a creative degree in a large university has many benefits, none more so than having access to a large employability team.
Our friendly, experienced careers consultants will work closely with you at every stage of your career planning, providing personal support and advice you won't find in a book or on the internet. You can benefit from this at any time during your studies, and for up to three years after completing your course.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
