Module: Photography

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Photography
Module Code	ICT1014 (ITS: CM122)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	Communications
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5

Description

This module introduces students to stylistic and compositional aspects of photography. It focuses on landscape, documentary and creative styles of photography. It introduces students to key photographers in these areas. It introduces students to basic visual culture concepts including gendered and political ways of seeing, in order to develop critical visual skills. It introduces foundational skills in digital photography pertaining to composition, exposure and focusing. It introduces technical competency in the use of natural light. It enables students to apply these conceptual, stylistic and technical competencies in a portfolio of work.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate foundational knowledge and critical evaluations of photography
2. Create photographic works that demonstrate a competency in photographic composition
3. Create photographic works that demonstrate core technical competencies in photography, pertaining to exposure and focusing.
4. Demonstrate a knowledge of documentary, landscape, and/or experimental styles of photography
5. Demonstrate critical reflection on a body of work created during the module

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Lecture	36	Lectures
Seminars	89	Seminars, projects and self-practice work
Total Workload: 125

Section Breakdown
CRN	10816	Part of Term	Semester 1
Coursework	100%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	40PASS	Pass Both Elements	N
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Marcos Dias	Module Teacher	Dragana Jurisic, Mandy O'Neill

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Portfolio	n/a	50%	n/a
Practical/skills evaluation	n/a	50%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Indicative Content

Indicative Reading List

Books:

John Berger: 0, Ways of seeing, British Broadcasting Corporation ; 1972., London, Eng., 9780140135152
Liz Wells: 2015, Photography: a critical introduction, 9781317539735
edited by Martin Lister: 0, The photographic image in digital culture, 0415121566
Liz Wells: 0, Land Matters, 9781845118648
edited by Liz Wells: 0, The photography reader, 9780415246613
Mia Couto, Lelia Salgado (Editor), Sebastiao Salgado (Photographer): 0, Sebastiao Salgado: Africa, 3822856215
by Graydon Carter and the editors of Vanity Fair; foreword by Graydon Carter; essays by Christopher Hitchens, David Friend, and Terence Pepper: 2008, Vanity Fair, the portraits, Abrams, New York, 0810972980
John Szarkowski: 0, The Photographer's Eye, 087070527X
Gerry Badger,: 0, The Genius of Photography, 1844003639
Michael Freeman,: 0, The Photographer's Eye, 1905814046
Andrew Darley: 0, Visual digital culture, 0415165555
Mary Warner Marien,: 0, Photography, 1856696669
edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff: 0, The visual culture reader, 0415252229
Christiane Paul: 0, Digital art, 0500203989
Brian Winston: 1996, Technologies of seeing, British Film Institute, London, 0851706010

Articles:
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Other Resources

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