Graphic and Media Design (Top Up)

During your time on our one-year BA (Hons) Graphic & Media Design Top Up Degree course, you’ll become a professional Graphic Designer learning from industry experienced lecturers. We will support you in gaining work experience with local and national creative media companies, as well as giving you the opportunity to work with professional designers and live clients.

This course will equip you with key skills for launching your exciting career in the creative industry including: editorial design, branding, motion graphics, packaging design, graphic arts, interactive design, graphic illustration, web design, app design, information graphics, book arts, animation and advertising.

As the teaching team are all industry experienced Graphic Designers we are able to impart real-world knowledge, ensuring that you are taught to the standard that the industry will look for in a graduate. We will encourage you to express yourself through distinctive, creative, commercially savvy and ambitious ideas, working on projects individually and collaboratively with students from other disciplines across Hereford College of Arts. You will work in a professional but relaxed studio environment with plenty of individual work space and access to all the latest tech and software.

Our smaller group sizes mean you can receive support and creative challenges from industry-active tutors and technicians – as and when you need it.

You will be encouraged to personalise your journey throughout the course based on your passions and aptitudes, and to develop your own, unique graphic style and apply it to the many career choices available to you.

What we provide

• Learn from experienced, practising professionals whose work includes a wide variety of contemporary screen and print media.

• Fantastic access to teaching staff, workshops, and equipment. Consistent challenge and support from an industry skilled team to develop as a designer.

• Explore your own passions, with the option of a graphic arts pathway.

• Work alongside experienced professionals on live industry projects.

• Collaborate with: photography, illustration, and animation students.

• Develop your unique graphic voice and build a career that suits your professional desires.

• A programme of visiting lecturers from around the world bringing cutting edge practice to HCA students.

Entry Requirements

• Successful completion of a UK based level 5 qualification such as a Foundation Degree (FdA) or HND in a related subject (evidence of prior learning will need to be provided).

• Portfolio submission or audition (as applicable) and successful interview.

Course Modules

Year 1 (level 6) - Practice in Context 3 (20 Credits), Practice 5 (30), Practice 6 (60), Professional Practice 2 (10)