Photography And Film

BA (Hons) Full time

Course Overview

UCAS code: W600
Duration: 4 years
Study type: Full Time
Napier code: 54106BH

This course is unique in offering the opportunity to reflect life through a lens in both photography and film. During your first year, you’ll study a mix of photography and filmmaking allowing you to experiment in both and identify your own interests and strengths. In the second or third year, you’ll choose to specialise in one of these disciplines and concentrate your studies and your personal creative practice. From the outset, you are encouraged to think critically and creatively, developing your skills so you can convey your ideas through your work.

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If you have an interest in reflecting life through a lens, and would like to explore the possibilities offered by both film and photography, this course is the perfect solution. Unique in that it allows you to study both disciplines in tandem, the course allows you to focus on the techniques and management of all aspects of lens-based media, including technical processes, production and analysis. You'll then take up your specialisation in your third year, and develop the confidence to research and present creative ideas in your chosen medium through practical project work.

Whether you eventually choose photography or film, you'll graduate with a comprehensive grounding in both. As well as practical techniques, you'll learn to plan and manage the creative, organisational and financial aspects of your projects. You'll develop professional communication skills, including presentation, and the ability to analyse your work critically at all stages of its creation.

  • photographer
  • film or television producer 
  • photography or film archivist 
  • picture editor 
  • web site designer 
  • gallery or festival director 
  • community project director 
  • teacher.

 

What's it like?

Unique, in that it allows you to study both disciplines in tandem.

Career prospects

We are one of the top universities in Scotland for graduate employability, with over 93% of our graduates in jobs or further study six months after graduating.

As a graduate, you'll be prepared for a position in the highly competitive creative and media sector. Often freelance in nature.

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Modular learning

Our courses are structured by modules which gives our students a flexible learning programme. Modules covered by this course:

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Requirements at a glance

Entry to the course

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Full-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study (per module)

Fees listed are per 20 credit module.

The number of modules studied is dependant on the exit that you wish to achieve, for example:

  • A Grad Cert is 60 Credits (3 modules)
  • A Cert HE/Grad Dip/ HND is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • A Dip HE credit is 240 credits (12 modules)
  • A Degree is 360 credits (18 modules)
  • An Honours Degree is 480 credits

Please note that some part-time courses give modular exemptions for previous study and vocational experience. Advice is available during application.

Fees Table

Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.

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