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UNIVERSITY OF KENT Programme Title HND/C Photography Awarding Institution/Body University of Kent Teaching Institution West Kent College Teaching Site West Kent College, Tonbridge Programme accredited by: University of Kent Final Award HND/C Programme Photography UCAS Code (or other code) Relevant QAA subject benchmarking group(s) Art Design, Media Communication Date of production/revision August 2011 Applicable cohort(s) 2011 entry (from September 2011) Educational Aims of the Programme The programme aims to: Widen participation in Higher Education by providing opportunities for potential students to gain HND/C in Photography. Support and encourage learners to develop their artistic, professional and personal approach to the subject through the provision of high quality teaching, guidance and learning within a creatively stimulating and well-resourced environment. Offer opportunities to capable learners, regardless of culture, background, learning difficulties or disability, to develop academically and creatively within the medium. Increase learners’ knowledge of photography with regard to historical and contemporary issues and contexts so as to provide an intellectual basis for the understanding of attitudes, issues and debates within contemporary visual culture. Encourage independent learning and the ability to begin to work in an autonomous and professional manner. Enable learners to understand photography’s place within visual culture and facilitate their ability to place their own work in an appropriate context. Produce achievers who have an intellectual understanding of the structures and institutions of photographic practice and who are equipped with a range of knowledge, skills and techniques to carry the practice of photography forward both professionally and with regard to further study and research. Programme Outcomes The programme provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understandi