Bachelor's degree

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Luton

  • Duration

    3 Years

Learn about design and visual communication, to help you explore and present creative ideas in a visually effective and personal way. To develop students own artistic and design interests and learn to think and work in an independent, creative and critical way, helping them to produce distinctively personal work. Students will acquire knowledge and experience of using up-to-date technologies and software. This course provides you with knowledge, skills and expertise that is highly transferable within the creative industries.

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Location

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Luton (Bedfordshire)
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Bedfordshire Institute Of Media And The Creative & Performing Arts, University Of Bedfordshire, Luton Campus, LU1 3JU

Start date

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About this course

* UCAS Tariff Score greater than 160, which should include either two A level passes or an AVCE Double Award
* An Access qualification
* Equivalent qualifications such as Irish Leaving Certificate, Scottish Highers, International Baccalaureate or BTEC National Diploma

If you left school or the further education sector without the normal academic qualifications for entry to higher education, the 4-year extended degree route may be suitable for you.

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Course programme

BA (Hons) Art and Design
Mode: full-time


This broad-based course helps you to explore a range of contemporary visual art practices in which there is a clear emphasis on the relationship between art and design.

You will benefit from working alongside other visual art courses. You will also be introduced to traditional practices, as well as new technologies and media. As you develop your skills, you will be able to focus on those media that best suit your creativity.

Your own personal creativity and artistic expression are the main focus on this course. You will be able to negotiate your own programme of areas of study from within the Art and Design area to suit your own particular interests and aptitudes.

A particularly distinctive feature of the teaching and learning at level one and two is the interdisciplinary approach in which you will be expected to work. You will incorporate fine art, graphic design, illustration, product design and interior design on common projects so that you can learn from different approaches to similar visual problems and issues.

At stage three you will be developing work for your degree show and this may be either specialised in one area or a hybrid of practices.

You will have access to a range of studio facilities including, materials workshops, a model-making workshop, a state-of-the-art non-toxic silkscreen printing studio supported by digital and photomechanical processes, well equipped photographic facilities both digital and chemical, video and digital editing and large scale digital colour printing.

An exciting and highly topical programme of contemporary artistic and design issues will provide you with a contextual background for your practical studies. You will be expected to make visits to exhibitions during the course as this is fundamental to the understanding of current art and design practice. By taking advantage of the excellent transport links between Luton and London you will be able to experience contemporary art and design in world-class galleries and museums.

There will occasionally be organised visits to other galleries, museums and exhibitions including visits abroad to centres of culture, cities such as Barcelona, Berlin or Paris.

You will also have access to a well-stocked learning resources centre that will support your contextual learning.

Areas of study include:

  • Traditional Media such as Painting, Silkscreen Printing, Model-making, Textiles and Fibre-based Materials
  • New Media, including Video, Photography and Digital Imaging
  • Visual Communication, including Drawing, Visualising and the use of Imaging Software
  • Contextual Studies that link Theory and Practice in Developing Creative Ideas
  • Professional Practice and Personal Development

Why choose this course?

  • Cross-disciplinary approach, with the opportunity to explore a range of creative media for specialist study.
  • Predominantly practice-based study regime.
  • Dedicated studio spaces within a lively and stimulating studio environment.
  • Professional practice and personal development.
  • Teaching staff are practising artists and designers who regularly exhibit.
  • An emphasis on developing personal creativity and self-expression, and on professional practice.

Career Opportunities

This qualification is principally conceived as the means by which you construct your own course and develop your own particular expertise within the art and design field, so the career opportunities open to you may vary slightly.

As you will be used to thinking and working creatively and critically with a keen sensitivity for visual communication you may find employment in graphic design, film and video production, multi-media/web design, editorial illustration, publishing, animation, advertising, public or community arts participation arts education.

You will also be equipped to enter further study with a view to teaching or art therapy. As an undergraduate you will have acquired transferable skills that will equip you to enter other types of employment where a wide range of graduate attributes are sought.

Assessment

Portfolio assessment, studio critique, written assignments, student peer assessments, degree exhibition.

Special entry requirements

Applicants will be invited to attend an interview and a portfolio of work should be presented for discussion and perusal by the course team. In the portfolio we are particularly interested in seeing visual evidence of how you have responded to the world around you, in whatever media you have found appropriate.

These could include drawing and painting but might also include lens-based media such as photography or video. We are also interested in seeing how you have developed ideas in a visually creative way.

Applicants seeking entry on the basis of experiential and non-certified learning will need to submit a personal Art and Design portfolio/portfolio of learning.

Art and Design

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