Course will provide students with a sound technical background in the broad and stimulating field of photo-media, as well as developing critical and conceptual skills; modules will provide students with opportunities to explore both commercial and personally creative work; students will have an introduction to the potential of new technologies, whilst at the same time acknowledging the technical and conceptual histories of photography; students will work with traditional methods of photographic image-making as well as contemporary digital methods of image construction and manipulation; by discovering how they inform each other; students will be encouraged to analyse contemporary photography in a variety of contexts, from the gallery to commercial design; the critical elements of the course will help towards discussing their own work as well as that of others.