This course promotes well-established skills associated with this practice; projects emphasise the construction of photo-essays, the use of image and text and the application of journalistic principles to self-initiated ideas; in addition students are challenged to find their own voices as photographers by being made aware of photojournalism's contextual position within contemporary culture and by experimenting with the medium itself; students engage with notions of subjectivity and expression leading to an extensive and sustained practice; they study photography in a creative environment with an emphasis on research, the development of practical skills and the construction of self-initiated, narrative-driven projects.