Welcome, to our photography degree course at CCCU! This is the perfect course to develop your photographic skills and creative voice! The team is dedicated to teaching you the theories and techniques essential for your images to stand out in the world of photography. Our course is not just about teaching the technicalities; we're firm believers that learning should be an enjoyable and enriching journey. Throughout your time with us, you'll collaborate with photography experts, gaining insights and feedback from passionate industry professionals. Connect with our vibrant community, get to know our expert team, and unleash your potential as a photographer. This will be an exciting adventure!

Miranda Hutton
Course Director and Senior Lecturer in Photography

Key dates

Course start date: 16 September 2024

Academic Calendar: Semesters

View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2024-25 including when teaching starts and finishes and when you break for holidays.  

Welcome and induction

Your Welcome Week is an essential introduction to your course and student life at CCCU, helping you to feel confident and prepared for your studies right from the very start.

It is important to check your Welcome Schedule for all the activities you are required to attend during the week.

If any of your welcome activities are in groups, your course team will contact you before your arrival to let you know which group you will be in.

Your teaching timetable 

UniTimetables provides an overview of all teaching activities on a course. Your individual timetable will be available via MyTimetable and is personalised to show you what modules and groups you are expected to attend.

Your individual student timetable can only be produced once you have engaged with online registration and created your computing account. It is essential you complete these tasks when invited, so that your course team can assign you to your teaching activities and publish your individual timetable.

Find out more about all aspects of timetabling for new students including user guides.

Welcome

Studying Photography offers an avenue for students who are seeking to develop their technical photographic style, creative voice and visual communication skills. You will have regular contact with the experienced photographic teaching team including, myself, Rob Ball, Carl Bigmore and Melanie King who will provide comprehensive guidance throughout your degree.

The staff and students on the degree are part of a wider community of creative practitioners in the School of Creative Arts and Industries which includes performers, composers, producers, designers, and dancers, and we hope you’ll take advantage of the opportunity to gain inspiration from this diverse group to help expand and enhance your own creative practice.

Follow our Instagram account @cccuphoto

You can see some student work from the School here: School of Creative Arts and Industries

Getting started

As creative practitioners, we expect you to be looking at the work and ideas of others in the lead up to joining the course. This might be in publications, exhibitions or books. Immerse yourself in interesting work and your own practice will flourish.

Your welcome and induction will be w/c 16 September 2024 - we look forward to meeting you then.

Pre-course reading

We’ll give you more extended reading lists once you begin University. However, here are two books which we would like you to invest in and become familiar with before you arrive:

  • Badger, G. (2010) The Pleasures of Good Photographs. Aperture.
  • Cotton, C (2014) The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 3rd Edition, Thames and Hudson.

It is useful to note that the University Bookshop offers 10% discount on most titles in print and have some price-beating book bundles. They also price match Amazon on core texts recommended in the module handbooks you will receive when you start in September.

International student success programme

International students: don't miss out! Make sure you register for our international student success programme which provides practical advice on preparing to live and study in the UK.

Contact details

FAHE.CourseAdmin@canterbury.ac.uk