Course Summary

BA (Hons) Photography with Foundation is a four-year programme of study that provides an additional foundation year, enabling you to develop the required practical, technical, academic and creative skills for your undergraduate degree. This programme offers access to study for those students who may not have the standard entry profile for Year 1 study. Equally, for those returning to study who have relevant experience but not the required academic profile. It is also suitable for learners whose subject choice does not include the necessary background, but who are otherwise academically capable. Your foundation year will: - Welcome you to an engaging learning environment with a focus on active exploration, experimentation and discovery across a wide range of material and media. - Help develop your practical, technical and creative skills through studio and workshop based projects. - Provide training in key learning skills for further undergraduate study and build an awareness of practice, context and theory. - Introduce you to a community of experienced academics, practitioners and technical staff that will support you on your studies. - Give you access to a wide range of specialist workshops, laboratories and facilities across the campus and become part of our vibrant student community through the various opportunities available within the School of Art, Design and Architecture. - Enable you to explore and develop your personal interests and strengths as a creative practitioner. When you join the programme, you will learn to develop your passion. You will make, use, and analyse images, engaging directly with the world around you while exploring the medium’s endless potential. - Experiment: a key feature of our course is the space to experiment. During the three years there is a great deal of focus on the way you develop your photography, both in practice, and in ideas. - Document: a growing aspect of the course, in response to contemporary practice, is the importance of the photographic document. This includes opportunities to develop as a contemporary documentary practitioner. - Collaborate: a valuable skill for any creative practitioner, collaboration is sewn throughout our course including short studio projects, group presentations, and a collaborative practice module. - Think differently: an important aspect of our course is the development of you as a critically aware contemporary photographer. This means that you can move between ways of working that span the commercial and artistic worlds. - Explore: broaden your understanding of photographic practice in other cultures - our international opportunities include a residential field trip to Europe in Year 1 and opportunities for studying abroad in countries like Germany, Romania, Sweden, Cyprus, Slovenia, France, Slovakia, Norway, New Zealand and the USA in Year 2. - Facilities: achieve your creative goals with our excellent facilities, including a custom-built analogue and digital resource and an extensive Artist Book Collection. Be free to work when inspiration takes you with our facilities open from 8am to midnight, all week, and throughout the holidays. - Visitors: deepen your understanding of the subject with our visiting speaker series, featuring well-known practitioners and former students discussing their work and careers. Past speakers have included; Brett Rogers, Director of the Photographers Gallery; documentary photographer Ed Clark; image makers Anna Fox, Simon Roberts, Charlotte Dumas, Ori Gersht, Martin Parr and more. We also work with Specialist Professional Practice visitors who create clear links between the creative practice of the course and professional outlets in the future. - Unistats: 95% of students agreed staff were good at explaining things; 80% of students agreed staff made the subject interesting; 85% of students were satisfied overall. 85% of students were in work/study six months after finishing.

Course Details - Modules

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Course Details – Assessment Method

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Course Details – Professional Bodies

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How to Apply

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application Codes

Course code: W649

Institution code: P60

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Points of Entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

Foundation

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

International applicants

Standard Qualification Requirements

32-48 points , minimum of 2 A Levels

From a minimum of 2 A Levels

32-48 points, minimum of 2 A Levels

From any subject

From any subject

From any subjects

From any subject

32-48 points from any subjects

From any subject

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Minimum Qualification Requirements

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

English language requirements

Test Grade AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic) 6.0 With 5.5 in all elements.

English Language Requirements:

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/international/how-to-apply/english-language-requirements

Unistats information

Student satisfaction : 55%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 89%

Fees and funding

Additional Fee Information

For all information about tuition fees, please visit our fees and funding pages at www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/fees * Fees are correct at the time of publication and may be subject to change.

Provider information

Drake Circus
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Plymouth
PL4 8AA

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