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Course Overview

With a focus on real-world engagement with social and political issues, this distinctive MA offers an exploratory and lively engagement with the subject. It is characterised by an expansive understanding of photography, encompassing networked imagery, data, archival material, audio, and moving images.

You will predominantly study online with the option of having a more flexible and blended approach that includes access to facilities at the University of South Wales. There will be optional workshops and masterclasses both on campus in Wales and internationally. Peer-to-peer learning and networking will form an important component of the course.

You will be taught by experts in the field of photography and engage with international visiting speakers and our cohort of scholars undertaking PhDs in photography as part of our European Centre for Documentary Research (ECDR).

The aim is to develop a strong, expansive and sustainable documentary practice that unites rigorous critical thinking with a body of work that you can confidently exhibit and publish. The MA will provide a strong foundation for developing a career as an independent documentary practitioner within the photographic industry.

This course places an emphasis on the philosophical and theoretical implications of photography, as we believe it is important to help contextualise practice and enable clear communication to a variety of audiences.

What you will study?

The MA in Documentary Photography course is available for part-time study, one to two days per week over two years. We believe that you need two years to fully understand your practice and to complete a long-term project which you will complete during the modules.

The introductory modules are shaped around a lecture programme that covers the critical issues of contemporary photographic practice, and a seminar programme in which you will develop new ways of looking at your own practice alongside technical workshops delivered using up-to-date equipment.  

The final modules are structured to enable you to fully realise your ambitions for your work. A lecture programme and regular contact with teaching staff, along with seminars from visiting fellows and prominent practitioners, will assist you towards the production of a significant body of new work along with a key situating text. You are encouraged to develop the final production of the work in the form that is most relevant to the work such as exhibition, book dummy and website.

Entry Requirement 

Qualifications and experience

Normally an Honours degree in a related subject is required. However, if you have solid professional industry experience rather than academic achievement, this may be acceptable for entry to study at this level through a process called Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL).

Portfolio requirements

Please provide evidence of a website or any other form of digital portfolio within your application. We are looking for an engagement with documentary photography or photojournalism with a particular focus on series of images rather than individual photographs. The portfolio should evidence your interests in documentary photography or photojournalism and demonstrate your desire to study Documentary Photography at the Master's level at The University of South Wales.

English language Requirements:

The course welcomes international applicants and requires an English level of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component or equivalent.

However, if you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required.

For students not at this level, a range of intensive English courses recognised by UKBA is available at the university. These must be completed prior to entry on the award.

Fees

Full-time UK:  £9000

Full-time International:  £14300 

Part-time UK:  £1000 per 20 credits


This information was accurate on : 24/04/2021
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