Course Essentials
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!
The Course Team
Key dates
Academic Calendar: Semesters
View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2025-26 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 the wider University, helping you to feel confident and prepared for your studies right from the very start.
It is important to check your Course Welcome Week for all the activities you are required to attend as part of your course induction. If any of your welcome activities are in groups, your course team will contact you before you arrive to let you know which group you will be in.
In addition, check the Student Events Hub for a range of fun activities. including the Students’ Union Welcome Fair, to help you make friends and live your best CCCU student life.
Your teaching timetable
UniTimetables provides an overview of all teaching activities for a course. If your course is taught in groups, it will display information for all groups, not just the group you will be assigned to.
Your individual student timetable will show you what modules and groups you are expected to attend via MyTimetable. This will be available for when your teaching starts.
Learn more about timetabling for new students including user guides and videos.
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, 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 CCCU Photo - https://www.instagram.com/cccuphoto/
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 15 September 2025 - 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 (2020) The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 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
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