Number of MA students 2011/12
46
Teaching is based on individual and group tutorials, theory seminars, group critiques and lectures by leading artists and theorists.
The year one Senior Tutor supervises student progression throughout the year. Students are also assigned an academic tutor for the year who sees them at least twice a term for a one-to-one tutorial and writes a termly tutorial report. Although students work mainly on their own practice, there is also structured teaching in the form of crits, seminars, lectures, workshops and tutorials.
Students attend weekly work-in-progress crits and present their work once a term. The crits will be chaired by the year’s Senior Tutor. Theory seminars address practices of image making and draw upon theories of representation informed by aesthetics, semiotics, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Students also have the opportunity to attend relevant workshops that deal with technical aspects of photography.
Students also undertake the mandatory Critical & Historical Studies programme in their first year, in which a series of lectures, seminars and tutorials culminates in the submission of a dissertation at the start of the second year.
In the second year students select a particular line of enquiry and concentrate on a major body of work. They choose a new academic tutor, and the year two Senior Tutor will chair the work-in-progress crits.
The dissertation is submitted in the first week of the autumn term; students also present a short lecture on their practice, drawing upon ideas developed in their dissertation. The lecture provides an opportunity to reflect upon the relation between practice and theory.
In the autumn and spring terms, the year group collectively works on the concept, design, production and funding of a publication accompanied by critical texts. In the summer term, the students prepare and install the Show, and undertake their final examinations, which includes a viva.
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