Curriculum Information

Evidencing Practice EP This module contains a six-week immersive learning element.

The module is designed to test the student’s ability to plan, produce, prepare and present a fully finished and complete body of work and an opportunity to evaluate the skills that the students have developed over that last two years. This first unit in the Negotiated Practices module will assess the student’s skills and help them understand their strengths and weaknesses so that they can move forward into their chosen career. This practical project is to be completed within a 6-week limited timescale reflecting the professional activity of a fully competent practitioner. Building on the experience gained in Level 5, this module seeks to consolidate and develop the student’s ability to research, plan, create and present a project to the highest standard, suitable for a professional context. The work will be informed by a specific brief designed to prepare students for industry.

Negotiated Practice NP- Students are asked to undertake a substantial and extensive major practical project negotiated at the outset of the module and this work should be based on their own particular interests and preoccupations within documentary photography practice. This is a pertinent phase in which to make the major piece of work that acts as an introduction to the professional world. As students have moved through the course, they have recognised an emphasis on narrative and the construction of bodies of work. This aspect of the module draws on the early stages of the course, where students were introduced to both traditional touchstones of the contemporary world and more innovative and experimental documentary practices. The project can either be a distinct portfolio of a larger body of work that is connected to their major project or a ‘stand-alone’ project with no connection to their final submission later in the year.

It should be complete and fully resolved and have a clearly identifiable context for its dissemination and distribution. It should be of a very high standard as appropriate for its professional context and presented in an appropriate and fully professional manner.