Master of Arts - Photography

1 year: Duration

17,500 GBP: Price

Rolling admission: Start

Rolling admission: Deadline

Master: Degree

Campus: Format

Farnham / United Kingdom: Location

UCA - University for the Creative Arts: School

Program description

On our MA Photography degree programme at UCA, you may improve your abilities, expand your horizons, and develop your sense of style as a photographer.

In this course, you will be encouraged to take risks with your work and how you present it. You will be urged to speculate, try new things, and make your projects more complex while making use of our wide facilities to realise your ideas.

We also include critical theory, reading and writing about the image, and the dissemination, exhibition, and publication of photographic work. You will respond to the diverse field of contemporary photography and explore practises of representation that engage with the still and moving image, as well as performance and installation, with a balance of support that will develop your practical skills and foster a high standard of diverse critical approaches.

Numerous individuals of international repute who work in a division that promotes experimentation will help your academic endeavours. This will help you establish yourself as a well-rounded professional who can structure thoughts within a complex framework and effectively communicate with others verbally and graphically.

We place a significant emphasis on publication, empowering you to develop innovative ways to communicate your work outside of the academic framework, regardless of your professional objectives, which could range from fashion to fine art, editorial to curating.

You can choose the Integrated International Pre-Masters, a year-long preparatory programme of study to get you ready for your master's in the UK, improving your speaking and writing skills in English along with your specialty skills, research knowledge, and self-confidence.

Program structure

Term one

The University, its technical workshops, and other resources will be introduced to you. In the first term, you'll take part in a variety of lectures and seminars and begin to investigate your creative practise.

Contemporary Debates and Creative Enquiry

In addition to highlighting important topics and controversies in modern visual and material culture, this unit introduces you to a variety of research techniques and instruments appropriate for an advanced level of study in creative disciplines. It is created to make it possible for students to apply sophisticated study techniques to get ready to create their MA project.

Exploratory Practice

The goal of this course is to explore creative practise so that you can build your project proposal in depth. The unit offers a systematic framework that you can use to explore the potential of approaches, concepts, and topics in your field.

Term two

You start working on your MA project during term two, analysing and testing the objectives of your proposal during an extended period of self-directed study.

Innovation and Development

In this unit, as you start to work more independently as a researcher and practitioner, you'll start to create your MA project over a prolonged period of self-directed study. You must extend and strengthen your critical understanding and research articulation throughout this course growth level. You are urged to examine the most recent theoretical and practical advancements in photography, fine art, and the larger media culture as you question the connections between photography, technology, and representation.

Term three

You'll use the knowledge you learn through your research to produce a final body of work in the third term of the course.

Resolution and Presentation

You will use the knowledge you learned from your research in the Innovation and Development unit to complete the resolution of your final body of work in this unit. You'll be able to define a type of finished work, produce it, and situate your project within a professional framework in this last section of the course. You are urged to create your final product in the format that is most appropriate for it, such as an exhibition, book prototype, website, performance, or dynamic time-based work.

Price

Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 17,500 GBP for international students

We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.

Requirements for applicants

If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.

In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.

For our Master's courses, we usually require that you have successful completion of your Bachelor's degree or equivalent from a recognised university.

English Language requirements for MA/MSc & MBA courses:

IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.5
Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 90
Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 176
Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Pass, Reading Pass, Speaking Pass, Writing Pass, Total ISE III
LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 38, Reading 38, Speaking 38, Writing 38, Total B2 Communicator High Pass

Portfolio requirements

We'll need to examine your written or graphic portfolio for these courses in order to review it. Once you've applied, we'll send you an invitation to submit your portfolio via your applicant portal; more details will be given at that time. This can also be arranged for you if you would prefer to evaluate your work with the Academic Team in person while on campus.

About the university

The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.

Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.

We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.

So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.