An exciting new masters course uniting the study of photographic practice at DJCAD with the history of photography at the University of St Andrews has begun recruiting students for its launch in 2003.
The one year masters programme will enable postgraduate students to pursue a flexible programme of historical and practical photographic studies, taught by staff with national and international reputations who are practising artists, writers and theorists.
DJCAD staff are Calum Colvin, professor of fine art photography and acclaimed artist, Jonathan Robertson, photography lecturer and widely exhibited photographer.
Senior art history lecturer Tom Normand and professor of art history Graham Smith make up the St Andrews side of the teaching staff.
The course is one of the major developments of the promoting partnership initiative.
Lectures and workshops will be split between Dundee and St Andrews and will include modules in 19th century British photography, fine art photographic practice, Scottish photography and its context, digital photography and others. Both universities have extensive photo archives on which students of the course may draw, with St Andrews in particular holding a variety of important specialised collections.
A unique resource for students of the course will be the 500-strong archive of photos of The Beatles, which was recently discovered within the Michael Peto photographic collection held by the University of Dundee's archives.