Art and Design (with a foundation year)

This course forms the first year of a four-year degree programme and will give you a progressive hands-on understanding of yourself as a learning practitioner.

The Art and Design (with a foundation year) offers a range of teaching to suit individual students needs and help you get the most from the course. Our flexible and adaptable programme means no matter where you are from or what your background is, we can tailor our delivery to enable you to succeed.

We provide students with their own dedicated workspace within a designated art or design studio. Our staff are active professionals in their field and equip our students with the essential skills needed to gain a degree with the School of Creative Arts and Engineering.

Students who successfully complete the foundation year progress onto one of the following BA (Hons) programmes: 3D Designer Maker, Animation, Cartoon and Comic Arts, Fashion, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Product Design, Stop Motion Animation and Puppet Making, Surface Pattern Design, Textile Surfaces or Transport Design

Foundation year Core: Major Project; Team Challenge; Theory & Practice in Art & Design.
Foundation year Optional: Ideas Generation in Art; Ideas Generation in Design; Problem-Solving in Art; Problem-Solving in Design

You are assessed in this course by a range of different types of coursework and practical activities. The assessment task for each module will vary dependent upon its content but may include:

• A portfolio of completed artwork, professionally presented in the format required by the assignment, project or brief.
• Workbooks, sketchbooks etc., documenting the process of generating, developing and resolving thoughts/ideas, and demonstrating the influence of research on practical work.
• Research books, folders, dossiers, etc. documenting the gathering, sorting and presentation of research material.
• Technical Exercises demonstrating your skills and competencies using particular equipment and/or techniques
• Written essays or reports, in which you are exploring the contextual or professional background to a specific project
• An individual or group seminar presentation and/or the accompanying material which you have used to create the presentation.