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Part Time Graphic Design BTEC Certificate Level 3

BTEC

In Brighton ()

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    BTEC

  • Duration

    1 Year

This is a course for those who need to improve their skills in graphic design. It will cover both traditional and digital approaches to communicating through image and text and will encompass typography, page layout, illustration and computer applications. This course is ideal for those who wish to enhance their career potential within the advertising, marketing and publishing industries.

Important information

Government funding available

About this course

Applicants should have some practical experience in the visual arts, preferably within graphics, and a genuine desire to develop graphic skills for career development.
You will need access to a computer with Adobe Photoshop software, to use in your own time. Some initial research or reading may be set.

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Course programme


Graphic Design BTEC Certificate Level 3 (Sept '09)

This course information relates to courses starting in September 2009.

Course code: B0831

Course category: Part-time

End Qualification: BTEC Professional Development Certificate

Starting and ending month: September to June

Starting year: 2009

Days of the week: Thursday

Course duration: 1 year

Time of day: p.m.

Formal assessment: Formal assessment required

Course location: Pelham Campus

Course aims:
This is a course for those who need to improve their skills in graphic design. It will cover both traditional and digital approaches to communicating through image and text and will encompass typography, page layout, illustration and computer applications. This course is ideal for those who wish to enhance their career potential within the advertising, marketing and publishing industries.

Course content:
On this course you will learn about:
  • ideas generation
  • image manipulation
  • typographic skills - experimental type
  • typographic Skills - magazine design
  • type - poster
  • visual communication - meanings & messages
  • working in the digital environment - digital images
  • website portfolio
  • freelancing


Facilities for students:
Students will be based at our City College Main Campus where we have extensive and excellent facilities for practical and theory work.
These include: state of the art Apple Macintosh running the latest industry level graphics design software, namely Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and other digital / graphics design related software.

Tutors:
The tutor assigned to this course has extensive experience in teaching this course and working with a range of digital media design software and in particular graphics design related packages. The tutor also has extensive industry experience in the areas of digital media design across a range of areas and practices.

Assessment: Assessment will be ongoing on a Unit by Unit basis within the course and through a process of Formative Assessment. Students must have at least a minimum Pass grade in all the 4 Units of study to achieve the final BTEC Certificate.

Awarding Body: BTEC

Entry Requirements:
Applicants should have some practical experience in the visual arts, preferably within graphics, and a genuine desire to develop graphic skills for career development.
You will need access to a computer with Adobe Photoshop software, to use in your own time. Some initial research or reading may be set.

Interview for entry: Interview required

Progression and links:
Achievement of this L3 award would allow students to apply for application to a L4 course.
This course has provided many students with the necessary skills to further and widen their professional opportunities through enhancing their skills and practice levels thereby making them more competitive within the digital / graphic design employment markets.

Academic Centre:
Centre for Visual and Performing Arts

Costs of your Course:
There are five parts to the cost of your course:
  • Tuition Fees
  • College registration
  • Awarding Body registration
  • Resource Fee
  • Exam / Assessment Fees
Tuition fees

How much will the Tuition Fees cost?

Below are the fees for 09/10.

Home/EU students tuition fees (per year) : 550.00

If you are under 19 on 31st August 2009 you do not have to pay Tuition Fees, the College Registration, Awarding Body Registration or Exam/Assessment Fees. However, you will have to pay any Resource Fees. Under 19s entering Higher Education will have to pay full costs.
Once you know your tuition fee, please look at the 'Additional Costs'. This will tell you all the extra costs you will have to pay in order to begin or complete your course.
Additional costsPayment dueTotal
College Registration 26.00
Exam Fees 82
Supplementary Resource Fee 35.00

Total for 19 and over : 693
Total for under 19 : 0.00
Total with fee remission : 142

Part Time Graphic Design BTEC Certificate Level 3

Price on request