Photography For Digital Media.
Our BA (Hons) Photography for Digital Media course is designed to enable you to develop your creative flair for photography. On the course you will study both the practical application and critical theory of Digital Photography in a variety of professional, creative and artistic contexts and media. You will learn to analyse the contexts and content of a rich variety of media artefacts which will give you the knowledge and skills necessary to appraise your own and others’ work and give you the background to think creatively. The course also provides you with a wide range of practical skills and technical competences giving you a distinct advantage as a practitioner or when competing for jobs. Our graduates have gone on to exciting jobs in the creative and new media industries and many have won national and international awards for their work.
Digital Photography holds a unique and central position in relation to all other form of Digital Media and the programme’s location within The Bradford Media School means that we are able to exploit these connections to their fullest. Our courses are unique in that they are offered in collaboration with the (External) National Media Museum , giving you privileged access to some of the world’s most important photographic archives and collections including the William Henry Fox Talbot Collection, Royal Photographic Society Collection, the Kodak Collection, the Daily Herald Archive, the Shelter Archive and the Science Museum Photographic Collection.
Our partnership with the National Media Museum means that we co-host the Bradford Photography Fellowship that supports established photographers from around the world and promotes innovation in Photography. An important part of the Fellowship is to support student learning at the University. Recent Fellows have included: Daziel and Scullian, Perry Hoberman and Eamonn McCabe. In addition to showing work from its own collections the Museum also hosts a continual programme of visiting photographic exhibitions, giving you the chance to see the work of the old masters of photography as well as showcasing the latest developments in the art. Bradford is also home to the internationally renowned Impressions Gallery, one of the UK's leading independent venues for photography, showing and supporting the work of the best of today's photographers. The National Media Museum and Impressions Gallery make Bradford one of the best places in the UK to engage with the art of photography in all its forms.
Three/four-year BA (Hons)
PLEASE NOTE: Many of our courses are available for part-time study over 4 to 6 years. Flexible part-time study routes are negotiated with students on an individual basis Please contact our Recruitment Manager for information.
WP63 BA/PDM
*Modules may change at short notice
Offers are made following detailed consideration of each individual application. Most important in the decision to offer a place is our assessment of a candidate's potential to benefit from their studies and of their ability to succeed on this particular course.
Entrance requirements will vary but are set after consideration of each applicant's academic background and achievements and all other relevant experience. A typical offer to someone seeking entry through the UCAS scheme would be 240 points (including Mathematics and English GCSE at least at C grade).
In addition, if your first language is not English, a test of written and spoken English normally needs to have been passed at grade 6.0 for IELTS (with no subtest below 5.5) or for TOEFL (87 for the Internet-based test).
University Programme Specification for this course (MS Word .doc)