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Course Overview

The programme provides excellent career opportunities for those who wish to become professional typographic and graphic designers, illustrators, and web designers in areas including publishing (magazines, books, academic, electronic), information architecture, corporate identity and branding, digital and on-line media and work as designers for museums and galleries and more. Many of our graduates go into information management, research work, and teaching.

Aims and Objectives

The Graphic Communication programme aims to:

  1. Provide an integrated, stimulating education in design for students who wish to obtain a firm grounding in the practice of the subject, informed by theory and history.
  2. Equip students with the understanding and appropriate skills to operate effectively within a competitive and diverse design industry.
  3. Stimulate students to develop their own interests within the broad field of inquiry offered by the subject and to develop a range of intellectual, visual, technical, and social skills.
  4. Provide learners with the means for lifelong learning within the professional or educational environment.
  5. Provide reflective and responsive graphic design training that is directly relevant to the changing needs of the creative and manufacturing industries.
  6. Develop a range of processes and skills, including design studio skills, multimedia skills, as well as business awareness and historical and theoretical knowledge in order to test individual ideas and solutions.
  7. Encourage students to become more self-critical, display critical judgment and challenge assumptions and prejudice.
  8. Provide students with the opportunity to study and practice graphic design in the context of the area of visual communication or engage in postgraduate study.
  9. Make students aware of the professional practice of graphic design; this will be achieved through a programme of work that combines visiting lecturers from industry, real-life projects, competitions, and study visits.
  10. The programme has both an academic and market orientation. It focuses on studying and discussing developments in the graphic communication academic field but it also reflects the needs and requirements of the national and international graphic design industry.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

The minimum admission requirement to the programme of study is a recognized High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC). Students with a lower HSLC grade than 7.5/10 or 15/20 or equivalent depending on the grading system of the country issuing the HSLC are provided with extra academic guidance and monitoring during the first year of their studies.

In addition to the above, all applicants are expected to submit a portfolio of art/design/multimedia, ideally in both electronic and physical form.

The interview and portfolio review is a two-way process and assesses students’ skills and interests; students are given the opportunity to ask questions about the programme and the Department and to have a look at the facilities.

Graduation Requirements:

The student must complete 240 ECTS and all programme requirements.

A minimum cumulative grade point average (CPA) of 2.0 is required. Thus, although a ‘D-‘ is a PASS grade, in order to achieve a CPA of 2.0 an average grade of ‘C’ is required.

English Language Requirements:

The list below provides the minimum English Language Requirements (ELR) for enrollment to the programme of study. Students who do not possess any of the qualifications or stipulated grades listed below and hold IELTS with 4.5 and above, are required to take UNIC’s NEPTON English Placement Test (with no charge) and will receive English Language support classes, if and as needed, from UNIC’s International Gateway Centre (IGC).

  • TOEFL – 525 and above
  • Computer-based TOEFL – 193 and above
  • Internet-based TOEFL – 80 and above
  • IELTS – 6 and above
  • Cambridge Exams [First Certificate] – B and above
  • Cambridge Exams [Proficiency Certificate – C and above
  • GCSE English Language “O” Level – C and above
  • Michigan Examination of Proficiency in English (CaMLA) – Pass
  • Pearson PTE General – Level 3 and above
  • KPG (The Greek Foreign Language Examinations for the State Certificate of Language Proficiency) – Level B2 and above
  • Anglia – Level B2 and above
  • IEB Advances Programme English – Pass
  • Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE) Michigan Language Assessment by: Cambridge Assessment English & University of Michigan – 650 average score for ALL skills and above.

Fees

Yearly Tuition (for 60 ECTS): € 9120


This information was accurate on : 20/01/2021
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