Periodicals: Portfolio, Source, Next Level, Eight, British Journal of Photography
Students will determine their own reading list appropriate to their personal proposal of work, with staff
guidance. Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities available within the
University; keeping abreast of current developments through appropriate periodicals and being aware of
the work of the major practitioners in the field.

Specialist studio and digital facilities, as appropriate
Specialist photographic equipment
Library and slide library
Word-processing facilities
Internet access

The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

You will have completed AM00187-3.

Working within the framework set up by you in the Research project module, you will be engaged with the production and implementation of your proposal for a self-initiated programme of photographic work.

With tutorial support, you will continue the research and direction taken by the Research Project module, but this will now be focused with a much clearer sense of direction towards developing an image portfolio and resolved piece of photographic work for your final degree exhibition.

You will need to maintain an adventurous, risk-taking attitude while engaging with the realistic acknowledgement of the constraints imposed by time, space, people and institutions. You will consider your practice in relation to a potential career direction and this will inform the compilation of your portfolio and the form of your final exhibition. You will ensure that the end result of your final year's work is based as little as possible on speculation and as much as possible on the knowledge gained from trial, error and adjustment. It is very important that you continue to inform your practice through reading, research and the analysis of photographs from a number of sources.

You will present for assessment a body of work including:
Visual diaries or workbooks, documenting the research [Learning Outcomes 1,2,4].
Pictorial workbooks evidencing the experimentation/development of your work [Learning Outcomes
1,2,4].
A professionally executed and presented exhibition of work [Learning Outcomes 1,4].
A presentation that places your work in a variety of contexts and summarises its background and
Intentions [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,5].

Lectures
Group tutorials
Individual tutorials
Independent reading and research
Independent practice and experimentation
Group critiques
Technical skills modulettes, as appropriate