All design degree students enrol in honours. Towards the end of third year, you decide whether you want to stick with the honours route, where your 4th year will be strongly research-led. The non-honours path is less research-focused and gives you room for more electives in 4th year. As a Massey design student, you will spend most of your time making and thinking in studios, workshops and media labs, whatever your major. There are many opportunities to explore other design fields through electives and cross-disciplinary collaboration is encouraged. There is also a focus on real world problem-solving and students in their 4th year have the opportunity to engage with live briefs and external clients. Learn from the best Great photographers shake us, shift our perceptions, and entice us to see things differently. Learn from some of New Zealand’s leading photographers. What is it Like? Five compelling reasons to do the photography major at Massey: Be taught by phenomenal photographers and designers Join the ranks of Massey photography graduates whose careers span the range from fine art to commercial, photojournalism to fashion photography Use state of the art digital suites and printers with technical support in addition to alternative and historical wet-based photographic processes Learn alongside other aspiring photographers in a challenging yet supportive environment. Find your creative niche through transdisciplinary opportunities, a broad grounding in fundamentals, and plenty of flexibility in choosing electives Careers The photography major develops skills necessary in diverse fields. Roles for photographers exist wherever visual documentation and communication are needed. Graduates have traditionally worked in areas such as advertising, fashion, corporate promotion, illustration, food photography, architectural photography, and humanitarian photography. Their work appears in newspapers, magazines. and online. Increasingly, their careers combine still and moving image, and more opportunities are opening up in areas such as video design. Graduates are also employed to apply the documentation aspects of photography in such disciplines as medicine, science, forensic science, archaeology, and anthropology. Structure: The Bachelor of Design with Honours is the best preparation for becoming a well-rounded designer, whatever your chosen field of practice. Regardless of what major you choose, your degree has the same basic structure. Note: July start will take 3.5 years to complete