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Course Overview

We have an 80% practical, 20% theory curriculum, with dedicated studio spaces, exceptional facilities and strong industry links. You’ll evolve your own style and voice as a graphic designer, working on industry briefs and collaborating with students on our Illustration and Animation course.

Your learning will be supported by a range of workshops in techniques such as typography, printmaking, photography, darkroom processes, 3D, letterpress and motion design, and you’ll be tutored by a team of experienced professional designers with connections at the highest levels of the industry.

Year 1

Introduction to Visual Communication
You'll explore how Graphic Design shapes form and content across the spectrum of media, from the printed page to the internet, and will work to articulate your own personal voice as a designer and artist while fashioning messages that communicate to various communities and are relevant to contemporary culture.

Design Fundamentals 1: Image, Type, Print
You'll be introduced to how different meanings can be constructed through a variety of type and image constellations. You will also learn how these are applied to and affected by different print mediums and formats.

Design Fundamentals 2: Motion, Narrative, Screen
This unit introduces narrative, sequence and interactivity as thematic concepts that can be applied to a screen-based design outcome. You will be asked to consider how visual language, such as words, images, materials, format and structure, can support a narrative.

Visual Theory: Message, Medium, Meaning
Through the exploration of examples from historical and contemporary practice and analysis of your studio work, you'll examine a range of topics. These will include basic concepts in semiotics, the relationship between word and image, the construction of narrative, photographic language, function and expression, culture connotation and myth, subversion and propaganda.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

Along with your portfolio, the standard entry requirements* for this course are:

One of the following:

  • 112 new UCAS tariff points, 
  • Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Level 3 or 4)
  • Distinction, Merit, Merit at BTEC Extended Diploma / BTEC National Extended Diploma
  • Merit at UAL Extended Diploma
  • 112 new UCAS tariff points from an accredited Access to Higher Education Diploma in the appropriate subject
  • 27-30 total points in the International Baccalaureate Diploma with at least 15 IB points at a Higher level,

And four GCSE passes at grade A*-C and/or grade 4-9 including English (or Functional Skills English/Key Skills Communication Level 2).

Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 the UK and international qualifications are considered on an individual basis, and we encourage students from diverse educational backgrounds to apply.

*We occasionally make offers that are lower than the standard entry criteria, to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve higher results. We consider the strength of our applicants’ portfolios, as well as their grades - in these cases, a strong portfolio is especially important.

International Baccalaureate

If you are studying the International Baccalaureate, the number of points you need to achieve can vary depending on the strength of your portfolio and the number of Higher Level points you achieve. As a guide, the number of points applicants are usually asked to achieve is

  • Bachelor’s courses (except BA (Hons) Architecture): 27 total points. 
  • BA (Hons) Architecture: 29 points.
  • Four Year Bachelor’s and Further Education Courses: minimum of 24 points.

We do occasionally make offers lower than this entry criteria, to students with a strong portfolio or those who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve a higher result.

English Language Requirements:

Course  Test Listening Reading Speaking Writing Total
International Foundation  UKVI IELTS 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 5.0
LanguageCert International ESOL SELT 33 33 33 33 B1 Achiever High Pass
Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic UKVI 41.0 41.0 41.0 41.0 46.0
Course  Test Listening Reading Speaking Writing Total
BA/BSc Courses IELTS UKVI or Academic  5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 6.0
Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT 17 18 20 17 80
Pearson Test of English (Academic) 51 51 51 51 56
Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency 162 162 162 162 169
Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Merit Merit Merit Merit ISE II
LanguageCert International ESOL SELT 33 33 33 33 B2 Communicator High Pass 

Fees

UK students - £9250 

EU students - £9250

International students - £16950 (standard fee)

International students - £16270 (full early payment fee)


This information was accurate on : 28/04/2021
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