Photography guidance


New BA (Hons) Photography units:

  1. Photography 1.1: Approaching Photography (PH4APH)
  2. Photography 1.2: Practice and Process (PH4PPC)
  3. Photography 1.3: Narrative and Context (PH4NAC)
  4. Photography 2.1: Challenging Genres (PH5CGG)
  5. Photography 2.2: Ethics and Representation (PH5EAR)
  6. Photography 2.3: Digital Image and Visual Culture (PH5DVC)
  7. Photography 3.1: Practice and Research (PH6PAR)
  8. Photography 3:2 Context and Audience (PH6CAA)
  9. Photography 3.3: Major Project (PH6MPT)

Teach Out BA (Hons) Photography units:

  1. Photography 1: Expressing Your Vision (PH4EYV)
  2. Photography 1: Context and Narrative (PH4CAN)
  3. Photography 1: Identity and Place (PH4IAP)
  4. Photography 2: Landscape, Place and Environment (PH5LPE) - also includes Photography 2: Landscape (PH5LDS)
  5. Photography 2: Documentary Fact and Fiction (PH5DFF) - also includes Photography 2: Documentary (PH5DOC)
  6. Photography 2: Digital Image and Culture (PH5DIC)
  7. Photography 2: Self and the Other (PH5STO)
  8. Photography 3: Body of Work (PH6BOW)
  9. Photography 3: Contextual Studies (PH6CTS)
  10. Photography 3: Sustaining Your Practice (PH6SYP)
  11. Visual Skills 1: Visual Dynamics (VC4VSD) - See Visual Communication guidance
  12. Visual Studies 1: Understanding Visual Culture (AH4UVC) - See Visual Studies guidance

Assessment requirements

When considering the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for your course unit, it is important to know what you are being asked to submit. These are known as your assessment requirements. These will typically include:

  1. Selection of Learning Log entries
    A    ll levels - Submit between 2 to 3 learning log entries for each learning outcome.
  2. Selection of Creative Work 
    HE4/HE5 levels     - Select three assignment outcomes (excluding critical reviews/essays) or pieces of creative work. These assignment outcomes/pieces of creative work would typically constitute a series of photographs, but depending on how you have approached an assignment brief or course exercise, it could be a video outcome, an installation, an photographic artefact or other piece of digital media. It’s up to you to discern what your strongest outcomes on the course unit have been, not to select the ‘best images’ from across all of the series’ you have produced. 
    HE6 level - Select your body of work
  3. Critical Review
    HE4/5 levels     - Submit a Critical Review/Essay (written or presentation). Where relevant to evidence your development process, you may choose to also include and label clearly a first draft for comparison.
    HE6 level - Submit a Critical Review or Dissertation (written or presentation). You are also advised to include any Literature Review and Proposal elements (and, if appropriate, comment on any ways you may have since departed from what was originally proposed). 
  4. Reflective presentation/evaluation
    All levels     - Your reflective presentation or evaluation (presentation or written) will also help assessors to navigate your submission. If you choose to include images of your work in this, we suggest roughly 10 to 12 images. This could help you to visually connect your reflections to your work. If you choose to present this as video, you can keep this very simple using a mobile phone or laptop— it could show you speaking about, or even handling, your work, you could use this to show aspects of scale, texture, physicality of materials or process.

Guidance on Academic misconduct, plagiarism and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI):

Ensure you consult the Academic misconduct policy for guidance. 

Additional OCA resources to documenting work

What if … I can’t go outside to photograph by Andrea Norrington

Experimenting with Physical Formats and Tactile Processes to Demonstrate Critical Thinking by Rachel Smith

Discussing and Sharing the Tactile Qualities of Work by Rebecca Fairley

Student Work: video-documentary of site-based work by Bryn Davies

Photography and digital assessment— a wider picture by Dan Robinson