This course will give you the experience and knowledge of a broad range of graphic design skills enabling you to successfully produce a portfolio to gain employment in the design industry.

Students will:

• have opportunities to work on 'live briefs' in the local community
• build their confidence, presentation skills and abilities to work with real clients
• undertake placements with our extensive alumni network
• enjoy visits to design exhibitions and museums, and conferences

YEAR 1 (LEVEL 4)

Your creative practice modules, with their emphasis on creating ideas and solving problems in an environment focusing on learning and teaching, will offer you a broad basis into the subject dicipline. The learning environment enables you to learn from others. These modules aim to provide a firm foundation of experience on which to build your confidence and holistic appreciation of the subject. Team assignments are particularly useful in helping you to make new friends and collaborate with students in other subject areas. Your work will receive continuious feedback from the staff team throughout your course. Emphasis will be placed on your personal growth and development as an aspiring designer.

 MODULES

• Contextual Studies 1
• Creative Futures 1
• Introductory Subject Studies
• Principles and Processes
• Ideas and Concepts
• Media and Techniques

 YEAR 2 (LEVEL 5)

You will find these modules will consolidate and extend your self development. Within the practical modules you will extend your workshop experiences in print making, book binding and photography. There is flexibility during your studies to initiate collaboration through working with others at the Regent Street campus. You are expected to take responsibility for your own learning, develop action plans, and evaluate your personal development in response to assignments.

 MODULES

• Contextual Studies 2
• Creative Futures 2
• Extended Practice
• Practice in Context
• Specialist Study

 YEAR 3 (LEVEL 6)

At this level, you will find you have the opportunity to expand your creativity in the direction of your future employment. This involves critical, analytical negotiated studies projects determining your own career path. Delivering your work through presentations will enable your confidence to grow in communicating your ideas. You will have responsibility for your own diary, monitored by the programme team, enabling you to work to strict deadlines. Your work will be showcased at the university's Summer Show, where local industry employers are invited to attend with views to employment opportunities.

 MODULES

• Contextual Studies 3
• Creative Futures 3
• Negotiated Study 1