If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.
Our degree courses with Foundation year offer the opportunity to prepare you for advanced study before you progress on to a full honours degree at the University of Westminster. Whether you do not feel ready for degree-level study, don’t have the right qualifications, want to change your subject specialism or return to study after an absence from education, we aim to encourage a broad range of students to undertake our Foundation year in order to progress on to their full honours degree with us.
On successful completion of the Foundation year, you'll be able to move on to study for the Photography BA Honours degree over a further three years of study.
Our Photography BA course is a long-established course with an excellent international reputation for its academic and practical teaching. This reputation is reflected in high application rates, a distinguished record of graduate employment in the industries it serves, and in the publication, production and teaching profile of its staff and graduates.
Our course will enable you to develop your creative production skills across a range of photographic and lens-based media, to establish a critically engaged and self-reflective creative practice. It will equip you with the skills to adapt to creative opportunities, participate in contemporary cultural debates, and increase your awareness of the political, ethical and aesthetic implications of your work. You’ll learn to form independent, informed opinions of your own work and that of others.
Our course is renowned for its distinctive philosophy, which aims to provide a holistic photographic education. It combines high levels of technical and visual photographic skills with excellent visual literacy and a critical awareness of visual culture alongside solid professional practice.
You’ll also explore a wide range of relevant contemporary theories and debates designed both to stimulate a critically engaged practice and to better prepare you for a range of related careers.
The course is part of the University's College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries, based at our state-of-the-art Harrow Campus – a cutting-edge creative hub.
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Foundation
Subjects of study include (across 5 core modules):
Introduction to Academic Practice
Critical Thinking for Academic and Professional Development
Art and Design Explorations
Making and Modelling
Seeing and Doing
There are no optional or elective modules offered at Level 3, as the focus is on the development of key academic skills through a broad understanding of Media and Design
Credit Level 3
Year 1
Subjects of study include:
Photography from Invention to Mass Medium
Photography from the Cold War to the Present
The Photographic Eye
The Constructed Photograph
Year 2
Subjects of study include:
Advanced Concepts in Photography
Advanced Research Methods
Vision & Technology
Photography for Wall, Page & Screen
Art/Science Collaboration
Creative Encounters
Exhibition
Photography Beyond the Frame
Professional Practice
Year 3
Subjects of study include:
Photography Dissertation
Photography Major Project
Professional Futures
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles such as:
Magazine editor
Museum and gallery curator
Photographer
Photographic artist
Picture editor
Picture researcher
Teacher and lecturer
Graduate employment
Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:
Autograph, London
Lux Darkroom
Oxfam
Pinewood Studios
Tate Modern
Graduates have found work placements and assisting opportunities at organisations including:
Sunday Times Magazine | NME | BBC | Dazed & Confused
Victoria and Albert Museum | The Photographers' Gallery
Sony | Pureland Design | Next Level
Sian Bonnell | Broomberg & Chanarin | Tom Hunter
Nadav Kander | Perou | Sarah Pickering | Jurgen Teller | Massimo Vitali
Millennium Images | The World Photography Organisation
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
