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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Main Site
Sandwich
Sep 2026
5 Year
Course summary
- Engage with a medium that allows you to see, think and communicate differently. - Thrive in an environment which cultivates your skills, confidence and risk taking. - Shape your innovative, flexible practice while challenging photography conventions. - Experiment with image making, its presentation and global dissemination. - Collaborate to shape an ethical, responsible and sustainable future. By studying this course with a foundation year, you’ll begin by developing the creative, practical and academic skills needed for degree level study within the Creative Industries. You’ll learn alongside other foundation year students from across the Creative Industries Institute, becoming part of a vibrant creative community with access to specialist facilities, technical expertise and industry focused teaching. The foundation year prepares you to progress directly onto the Photography degree, while also giving you the flexibility to transfer to another Creative Industries course without needing to reapply. Our BA (Hons) Photography course develops your creative skills, business acumen and critical understanding as an independent photographer. You’ll work towards your professional and creative goals while exploring photography across a wide range of contexts, helping you fulfil your potential in this exciting and expansive field. Through an environment that encourages confidence, curiosity and creative risk-taking, you’ll learn to see, think and communicate in new ways while shaping an innovative, flexible practice that challenges photographic conventions. You’ll experiment with image-making, presentation and global dissemination, collaborating with others to help shape an ethical, responsible and sustainable future for photography.
For full details of course modules, assessments, and teaching methods, please visit the course page on our website: https://www.shu.ac.uk/courses/Art-and-design/BA-Honours-Photography-with-Foundation-Year/Full-timeRoom types to suit all budgets from £80 to £168 per week
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