Course Summary
Course Category: PLC (Further Education - FET) Apply directly to College
This is a one-year, full-time advanced course designed to elevate the technical proficiency and conceptual thinking developed at Level 5 to an elite, professional standard. The curriculum challenges students to adopt a highly creative and sophisticated approach across diverse photographic genres, including Portraiture, Still Life, Fine Art, and commercial Advertising Photography. Learners deepen their craft by working with large-format cameras and traditional darkroom practices, while simultaneously leveraging cutting-edge image-capture tools such as professional digital camera networks, film, and drones for still and video production. The program focuses on blending masterful technical skill with artistic, conceptual imagery.
On successful completion of this course learners will be awarded a 120 credit QQI level 6 Major Award in Photography.
Course Details
What will you study?
Progression to CAO Courses
Higher Education Links Scheme (HELS)
This course leads to a QQI Major Award, and provides progression opportunities to a number of Higher Education courses, including those in the CAO.
To view CAO courses to which any Major Award (including this one) provides a possible Progression route, click below:
| CAO with Any QQI Major Award |
| Old FETAC Code | New QQI Code |
| EPHOT | 6M3732 |
To calculate Points based on your QQI award results, use the PLC Points Calculator.
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, the performing arts or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
Further Research
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Career Progression
Past learners are engaged in a variety of employments – working as professional photographers or are selfemployed/freelance. Others have set up their own studios.
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