PH6002 - Professional Practice 2: Photography (2023/24)
| Module specification | Module approved to run in 2023/24 | ||||||||||||||||
| Module title | Professional Practice 2: Photography | ||||||||||||||||
| Module level | Honours (06) | ||||||||||||||||
| Credit rating for module | 30 | ||||||||||||||||
| School | School of Art, Architecture and Design | ||||||||||||||||
| Total study hours | 300 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Running in 2023/24(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change) |
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Module summary
The PH6002 Professional Practice 2: Photography serves and sustains the award in the BA Photography course only, delivered in a seamless and integral relationship with the work of other core modules being studied in the level, including the Critical and Contextual Studies modules.
Students are expected to synthesise and consolidate the experience and knowledge gained over the course, contextualising own practice within photographic frameworks such as commissions, publications, competitions, exhibitions. Students will explore career paths and outline how to continue to develop in a professional capacity, employing a range of subject-specific and transferable skills in communication, negotiation, analysis, project planning and project management.
The module supports students in acquiring coherent and detailed knowledge of specific skills appropriate to individual career aspirations, building key knowledge and skills in order to be autonomous, self-directed professionals able to plan and pursue individual
Students will have the opportunity to reflect on and so demonstrate their proactive approach to developing professional practice and personal professional development throughout their studies in the form of an illustrated presentation.
Prior learning requirements
Pre-requisite:PH5002
Syllabus
At the beginning of the module, its aims and key concepts will be outlined to all students.
Students will be supported in addressing the Learning Outcomes through a combination of talks, lectures, workshops, seminars, group crits and tutorials in order to explore a personal creative, critical and contextual basis for future creative practice.
In this module students are introduced to a range of practical and professional photographic practices for application within photography and the creative industries
In semester 1 students will engage with a series of practical sessions, classes and tasks that will enable them to recognise the skills that they have developed.
Students will research and outline possible career routes and are required to identify the subject specific and transferable skills required for roles to which they aspire and to formulate a plan of action in order to be able to pursue their career aims on graduation. (LO1). Students will be required to develop an active professional online profile in order to disseminate their creative practice to specialist and non-specialist audiences. (LO2)
In semester 2 students will have a series of workshops, talks and seminars in which they will develop their understanding of methods in professional display in the form of a hard copy publication and/or works and to plan, market and implement a collaborative public group exhibition of their work. (LO3 & LO4).
Students will have a series of workshops in which they will reflect on their proactive approach to developing professional practice and personal professional development throughout their studies. The workshops will help students to recognise and collate appropriate examples and to outline these in an illustrated presentation. (LO5)
Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity
Scheduled teaching provides the guidance and foundation to ensure that independent study is effective in addressing the module’s learning outcomes and assessment tasks.
In-class activity makes use of varied student-centred approaches such as active, flipped and blended learning, so that a range of learning strategies is deployed, and individual learning styles are accommodated. Information is provided through a range of means and sources to minimise and remove barriers to successful progress through the module. The course team seeks to embed the University’s Education for Social Justice Framework in fostering learning that is enjoyable, accessible, relevant and that takes account of the social and cultural context and capital of its students.
Activities foster peer-to-peer community building and support for learning. Interim formative feedback points help students to reflect on their progress and receive help to identify the opportunity for improvement in learning strategies and outcomes. Throughout the module, students work on a series of set practical and professional practice tasks that develop their technical and professional understanding.
The School’s programme of employability events and embedded work-based learning within the curriculum supports students’ personal and career development planning. Through these initiatives, students are increasingly able, as they progress from year to year, to understand the professional environment of their disciplines, the various opportunities available to them, and how to shape their learning according to their ambitions.
Learning outcomes
1. demonstrate a critical understanding of professional contexts and practices appropriate to individual career aspirations;
2. demonstrate the creation of an individual professional profile and dissemination of individual practice to specialist and non-specialist audiences;
3. demonstrate the ability to test, explore and resolve methods in professional display in the form of a hard copy publication and/or works for exhibition;
4. demonstrate the ability to collaborate in the planning, marketing and implementation of a group exhibition:
5. demonstrate a proactive approach to developing professional practice and personal professional development.
Assessment strategy
The assessment strategy includes formative assessments that will take place at mid-semester in the form of tutorial or review with feedback designed to encourage and help students to develop and improve their work. These will inform the student of their progress through the module.
Summative assessment takes place in week 13 (Week 1 of January Assessment period), Week 26 and 29.
In week 13 students will submit the following elements covering LO1 and LO2.
• Semester 1 Journal and outcomes responding to semester 1 tasks.
In week 26 students will submit the following elements covering LO5:
• An illustrated presentation demonstrating a proactive approach to developing professional practice and personal professional development.
In week 29 students will submit the following elements covering LO3 and LO4:
• Semester 2 Journal of tasks and outcomes.
• Installation of exhibition works and/or hard copy publication.
Feedback will address the strengths and areas for development of individual summative submissions in relation to the learning outcomes and assessment criteria.
Work will be assessed against the learning outcomes in relation to the following criteria:
• Appropriate use of problem solving, testing and experimentation
• Appropriate use of research methods and enquiry
• Quality of analysis and interpretation
• Knowledge of relevant photographic and creative techniques and practices
• Quality of communication and presentation
• Management of own learning and personal professional development