You will present for assessment three pieces of work, which will include:
1. A professionally produced body of work for your Degree Show and public exhibition.
(Learning Outcomes 1,3,4,5)
2. A word-processed and illustrated Research Report.
(Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,6)
3. An oral presentation that communicates the context and function of your project.
(Learning Outcome 1,2,6)

Please refer to the Award Handbook for a full description and rationale for assessment methods.

Key Information Set Data
90% Coursework
10% Practical Exam

Working within the framework set up from the Individual Practice 1: Explorations module, you will be engaged with the production and implementation of your self-initiated programme of photographic work. With tutorial support, you will continue the research and experimentation work begun in the last module, but this will now be focused with a much clearer sense of direction. You will be working towards the Degree Show and moving from the research and experimentation phase through to development and implementation.

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 or/ personal fulfillment 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 appropriate sources, as this material will form the basis of a Final Evaluative Practice Document.

Scheduled Learning Activities
Lectures
Group Tutorials (Feedback)
Individual Tutorials (Feedback)
Group Discussion (Feedback)
Oral Presentation (Feedback)
The `Photo-Voices' Lecture Programme
Technical Skills Modulettes, as appropriate

Guided Independent Study
Independent Photographic Practise and Visual Experimentation
Independent Reading and Research

Key Information Set Data
Scheduled Learning 14%
Guided Independent Study 86%

Students will determine their own reading list appropriate to their personal approaches to photographic work, with tutor guidance. Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities available within the University, keeping abreast of current developments through appropriate books and periodicals and being aware of the work of relevant practitioners both historical and contemporary in their chosen field.

Key `Refresher' Texts:
Barratt, T. (2005). Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Bate, D (2009). Photography (Key Concepts). Berg
Shore, S. (2007). The Nature of Photographs. Phaidon

Specialist Periodicals in Library:
Advanced Photoshop, AG, Amateur Photographer, American Photo, Aperture, British Journal of Photography (BJP), Camera Austria, Ei8ht (Foto8), Exposure, f2 Freelance Photographer, History of Photography, Image (AOP Magazine), Next Level, Photographer (BIPP Magazine), Photoshop Creative, Photoworks, Portfolio (Back issues only no longer published), View Camera, Visual Studies.

Specialist Periodicals not held in Library
Source, Eyemazing, Professional Photographer, Photo Raw

Online Magazines
Camera Obscura, Lens Culture, Musarium, Potpourri, Travel Photographers, Zone Zero

Specialist photographic equipment
Specialist studio, digital and darkroom facilities
Lecture theatre and tutorial rooms
Lynda.com
Thompson Library
Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment will support this module where relevant
Word-processing facilities
Internet access