Photography BA (Hons)

In this first year, we will provide you with the foundations of photographic practice. You’ll explore your approach to photographic practice through a range of projects, developing your creative and practical photography skills, and learning the importance of research and how to gather and interpret information. This unit will introduce you to the values of manifesting inspiration, ideas, and concepts, through looking, seeing and doing, engaging the subconscious – using a ‘box’ of images to develop your visual approach. Workshops will introduce you to technical skills, such as fundamental camera techniques, file formats, exposure basics, studio and location lighting, and look at production and post-production understanding in our digital darkroom.

40 credits

In this unit, you will explore and experiment with techniques, materials and media. You’ll continue to expand your use of specialist photographic facilities and equipment. You will continue to explore and develop key contemporary photographic processes and techniques, utilising different professional camera formats and post-production. Through projects and workshops, you will develop and apply a range of thematic, conceptual and practical skills, from sequencing and storytelling to narrative theory. You will explore how creative practice benefits our environment, community, stakeholders, and society, taking a critical view of the relationship between images and the larger contexts within which they operate, and are influenced.

80 credits

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus.  The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.

This unit will enable you to expand your specialist knowledge and explore your creative practice within professional contexts, including fashion, advertising, editorial projects and fine art applications. The unit will explore how photography expands into other forms of making, utilising new and emerging technologies, like moving images, sound, CGI and post-production. You will consider how visual work is created in relation to theories of site and location, and how the meaning of your practical work may change depending on the context in which it is placed. This unit also places emphasis on contemporary photographic issues and practices and builds on your developing understanding of historical and theoretical photographic knowledge.

80 credits

This unit will introduce you to how collaborative working can help you focus and enhance your creative strengths, working with fellow students and our creative communities. This collective learning experience will develop your understanding of processes and approaches that will develop your creative thinking. Lectures and workshops will develop your knowledge and understanding of collaboration, effective teamwork, communication, expectation and mediation within a range of professional settings. You’ll develop your professional practice and an awareness of a variety of roles within the photographic and creative industries. You’ll be guided in preparing a variety of visual and written materials relating to your professional aspirations, including workshops on professional pitches, presentations, social media and networking.

40 credits

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus.  The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.

This is the first, and shorter, of the two units that make up your final year of study. Your final year allows you to refine your existing creative practice, develop your skills, and reflect upon your experience with opportunities to engage with live projects, visiting speakers, competitions, and professional bodies, to broaden your portfolio and strategically enhance career directions. The unit encourages innovation through an experimental, process-driven approach, identifying means of production relevant to your creative intentions using current and emerging technologies. You’ll develop and undertake critical research within an area of creative practice that advances your knowledge of contemporary practice, contextual issues, cultural theories and debates. Group and individual tutorials will provide stimulating and supportive sessions to help you develop your research ideas and that of others.

40 credits

This unit will allow you to deliver a final major project embracing the entire design process, further developing your understanding of the key theories and concepts. You will continue to develop your creative practice by exploring themes, subjects and approaches that you are passionate about. Alongside this, you will further develop an understanding of the application of your practice within professional contexts, including a career development plan that will help you to identify potential markets for your work. Visiting speakers will cover key areas of practice and production relating to the relationship between personal practice, applied practice and fine art practices within the photographic industries. You will participate in an industry critique with a panel of professional practitioners which will help develop your work as you progress through the final part of your degree. At the end of the year, you’ll have a comprehensive body of work that represents your unique perspective as a creative practitioner. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our degree show, Grad Fest and in a London graduate showcase, connecting you with industry professionals and potential employers.

80 credits

The first week of each academic year is called Wayfinding week. It’s an opportunity get your bearings, establish new connections and, after your first year at Norwich, re-establish old ones. Your course team will talk you through the year ahead and explain the expectations for the year. We’ll help you navigate new encounters and identify areas to focus on as you progress through your course.

An important element of Wayfinding Week is taking part in our annual ‘Make it Manifest(o)’ project. Your course team will introduce the project in which we’ll ask you to consider your hopes and vision of the year ahead at Norwich and work with students in other year groups to bring your ideas to life. The project culminates in a celebratory display of work across the campus.  The project will help you to develop your critical creativity through different approaches, concepts, and mediums. You’ll encounter diverse perspectives and build friendships and networks within our university community.

Interchange weeks are opportunities to step away from your disciplinary studies and engage in projects, workshops, visits and talks that extend your knowledge and understanding of the world. Whether you learn a new skill or take part in a global challenge project with students from other courses, you will come away with new insights to take back to your course. Interchange is part of the schedule for all Norwich students with sessions held across and beyond the campus led by university staff, visiting lecturers and students.