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Study Details: MA Full-time: 1 year
Part-time: 2 years
The School of Digital Art’s (SODA) MA Photography course provides a dynamic opportunity for you to test, push and extend the current boundaries of the photographic medium. You will explore photography through the medium’s rich critical and technological contexts, and develop your creative practice in line with your individual interests and professional ambitions.
As an MA Photography student you will be part of SODA, where you will study in an environment that is purpose-built for today’s fast-moving creative and digital sectors. It will offer boundary-breaking and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities that reflects modern project-based working practices. It offers the opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic creative community of sound designers, filmmakers, games…
You should have at least a 2:2 undergraduate UK honours degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Photography; Digital Photography; Filmmaking; Digital Imaging; Fine Art; Illustration).
Equivalent EU/international qualifications are also accepted.
Applicants who do not meet these criteria will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Other professional qualifications will be considered on merit and/or with relevant professional experience.
Overseas applicants will require IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 with no less than 5.5 in any category, or an equivalent accepted English language qualification.
For fees and funding options, please visit our website to find out more
The course, and wider faculty within which SODA is based, offer excellent links with partners within Manchester, nationally and internationally. It has enabled previous creative graduates to benefit from the incredible opportunities that the city has to offer.
Graduates from the course will be equipped to go into diverse fields of employment related to their subject, such as teaching, research, publishing and curating. Additionally they could work as independent artists and freelance creative practitioners within the cultural, digital and creative arts sectors in Manchester, the UK and abroad.
MA Photography has three core units and you can select a number of option units. The option units listed below are indicative of what you could choose to study, some option units may have limited availability.
Core units
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE 1 (PHOTOGRAPHY)
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE 2 (PHOTOGRAPHY)
INDEPENDENT PROJECT
Option units
VFX GROUP PRODUCTION
CO-LAB 6 (PHOTOGRAPHY)
CRITICAL STUDY
PERSPECTIVES
CG INDUSTRY PIPELINE
SUSTAINABILITY AND DIGITAL ARTS
DIGITAL ART ACTIVISM
SPACES IN XR STORYTELLING
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
EXPLORATION IN CG
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