Photography
Edinburgh Napier University
UCAS Code: W640 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
Pass Access to HE Diploma in a related subject with 45 credits overall with minimum 33 Credits at Merit & 12 Distinction at Level 3.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Award of Diploma with 27 points overall with three HL subjects at grades 6, 5, 4.
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
Pre 2017: B1, B3, B3, B3 at HL 2017 onwards: H2, H3, H3, H3 at HL
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Minimum grades MMM (Merit, Merit, Merit) in a related subject.
Scottish Higher
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T Level
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About this course
Top 5 UK university for Film Production & Photography
(5th of 67) - The Guardian Guide 2019
This course is industry facing and provides the professional, technical, contextual and creative skills necessary for a career as a photographer.
You'll be encouraged to think critically and creatively, developing your skills so that you are able to convey your ideas through your practice.
As you progress you'll increasingly define your own area of study. By identifying and working to your strengths, you'll develop an individual creative practice so that by graduation you'll be capable of a high standard of creative output.
Edinburgh Napier is extremely well resourced and we teach to a high technical standard. This is a means to an end in facilitating the translation of ideas through the art and craft of photography.
The course has recently moved to a newly-built specialist photography facility, which includes five fully-equipped photography studios, a black and white darkroom, dry to dry colour film processor, high-end professional digital scanners and printers, portable photography lighting and a large range of analogue and digital cameras and camera equipment.
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Merchiston Campus
School of Arts and Creative Industries
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