And will include the following:

You will present for assessment a body of work, which will include:
1. A digital, on line Portfolio of completed photojournalistic assignments (Learning Outcomes 1,3,4,6).

2. A Visual Development & Research file evidencing your pictorial strategies and detailed relevant research. (Learning Outcomes 1,3,4,5,6).

3. Short academic essay (Learning Outcomes 2,5).

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

The Introduction module aims to equip you with a broad introduction to the practice of Photojournalism and forms the basic information that you will need to build on throughout your degree.

This module will be lecture, seminar and workshop based. As part of the assessment you will be asked to design and contribute to your own Web / Blog site. You will be encouraged to become actively involved in research and practice around the Photojournalistic industry.

You will be asked to engage and understand from the perspective of a photographer; the basics of reporting in the modern converged newsroom, within a realistic and ethical framework. This module will provide you with knowledge to understand what makes something newsworthy and the basic skills to gather information for story telling. By the end of the module, you should be able to put together a selection of simple Photo led news stories.

This module will also ask you to begin to develop conceptual skills around how you communicate a story through images and how images function in today's society.

Technical workshops will include areas such as digital 35mm DSLR camerawork (both still and moving), basic editing software and introduction to Web / Blog site design. Visual and verbal presentation skills will be developed through practice in group tutorials, seminars and group critiques.

Specialist Photographic facilities and Software as appropriate.
Specialist photographic equipment
Thompson Library
Word-processing facilities
Newsroom facilities / PJ Base room
Media Laboratory
Staffs Live
National and regional newspapers and magazines

Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment will support this module where relevant.

KEY TEXTS
Clarke, G (1997). The Photograph. Oxford University Press.
Hill, P (2007). Approaching Photography. Photographer's Institute Press, Rev Edition.
Keeble, Richard, 2001,(3rd edition) The Newspapers Handbook, Routledge.
Langford, Michael, Basic Photography, Focal Press, 2011
Randall, David, 2000(2nd edition),The Universal Journalist, Pluto Press.

FURTHER READING
Hicks, Wynford, 1998, English for Journalists, Routledge
Kobre, Kenneth, 2004 (5th edition) Photojournalism: the professional's approach, Focal Press
Rudin, Richard, & Ibbotson, Trevor, 2002, An Introduction to Journalism, Focal Press.
Yorke, Ivor, 2000 (4th edition), Television News, Focal Press

Specialist Periodicals:
British Journal of Photography (BJP)
Foto8.

Internet:
www.news.bbc.co.uk/news
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk
www.ofcom.org.uk
www.nctj.com
www.newspapersoc.org.uk
www.guardian.co.uk/media
Photojournalism Blackboard site - resources pages

Scheduled Learning Activities
Lectures
Practical workshops
Group tutorials (Feedback)
Group critiques (Feedback)
Technical skills modulettes: as appropriate

Guided Independent Study
Independent photographic practice and experimentation
Independent reading and research

Key Information Set Data:
Scheduled Learning 18%
Guided Independent Study 82%