ART AND DESIGN - BA (HONS)

Many innovative creative studios now define themselves as interdisciplinary, a word that we define as the fluid movement across the fields of art, design, and technology. Rather than specializing in a particular creative discipline, our cutting-edge course reflects how these studios practice by exploring the intersection between art and design, with the implementation of new creative digital technologies.

WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS COURSE?

Our course will prepare you to be ready for employment within the creative industries by providing you with long-term creative skills to map out your creative future. With you at the center, we will explore the intersections of art and design, providing a space where you can understand, develop and create a career in the evolving creative industries. You will develop the necessary self-awareness to question, make, play, and create with others.

The versatility of our experimental studio environment will enable you to explore the necessary collisions that innovative ideas creation now requires while enhancing a range of core skills including design thinking, creative problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and making.

Whether you choose to combine creative coding with foraging for natural materials, photography with artificial intelligence, or welding with audio performance, you will respond to live briefs set by real-life clients.

The flexible, student-centered approach to the curriculum, informed by professional practitioners, will enable you to be imaginative, confident, and convincing in designing and shaping your role in tomorrow’s free-flowing, boundary-free creative industries.

CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES PATHWAY

All students will be introduced to the fundamentals of interdisciplinary art and design practice with a focus on new creative technologies, which forms the core ethos of this course. In line with the development of our digital futures, we are introducing an optional pathway in Creative Technologies which will allow you to focus specifically on further developing your digital skills through a breadth of technological approaches.

If you choose the Creative Technologies pathway you will cover the same curriculum but will opt for technology-based outcomes. You will be assessed about your exploration, questioning, and use of a range of contemporary digital technologies and your creative applications to the module theme. Work may still embrace a sense of physicality, but the focus will retain an element of Creative Technologies. You can either choose the Creative Technologies pathway at the start of your studies or transfer over to the Creative Technologies pathway at the end of each academic year. At the end of each year, during feedback with tutors, you can transfer over to the Creative Technologies pathway, but you will be required to evidence 80% engagement with the weekly Creative Technologies workshops, which you will document on a digital platform ‘Workshop Log’. If you have not engaged in workshops to 80%, you will need to evidence sufficient engagement over the summer.

Essential Requirements: 

• 112 UCAS tariff points from A/AS Level with a minimum of 2 A Levels.

IELTS:

• 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each band.

The course offers strong employability potential for students as the Digital Creative sector is the largest growth sector of the creative industries. The breadth and fluidity of the course will enable you to build awareness and development of the following transferable skills: adaptability; creativity; collaboration; problem-solving; communication; listening; analytical reasoning; critical thinking; attention to detail; and, writing.

Key employability skills will also be acquired through:

• Working on live briefs with real clients in an employment context, enabling you to collaborate, communicate effectively, build social skills, and develop a global perspective.
• The option of a work placement module, professional placement year, and multiple live briefs will be offered with potential employers as real partners in learning.
• A Personal Tutor will help you reflect on your employability.
• School Employability Leads, Academic Supervisors, Careers Advisors, and Graduate Plus Teams will be able to provide support and advice.

As a student online BA Art and Design course you will be offered the choice of taking one of the ADM Faculty Modules. Each module will have a live focus whether that be working across the City collaboratively with students from across the Faculty, working within the industry in work experience placements, or working on live project briefs. You will have the option to take a year-long professional work placement sandwich year to spend time directly working in the industry through our BA (Hons) Art and Design with Professional Placement Year.