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On completing this course, you’ll have strong visual and critical awareness, as well as a commercial understanding of advertising and fast-changing markets. You’ll have developed research and critical skills that make you an independent thinker, reflecting critically on the information you have and then drawing your own conclusions. All of these qualities are highly valued by employers in a range of industries.
Graduates have gone into careers in a number of different fields. Many continue with their professional practice – our graduates have gone to work for companies like Saatchi + Saatchi, FutureBrand, Exposure, Spiekermann Partners, Zitromat, McCann-Erikson, Smoke & Mirrors, Show Media, Elle Magazine, BBYO, SSY, Allgood, Golden, Prego, Elmwood, Cosmo, Apple, Nike, TBWA, BBH, Wieden + Kennedy, Root and Brand Union.
A-level: ABB including art/design subject or media. Excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking
If you don’t have an art or design-related subject but you are taking Media Studies A-level, we may also consider your application based on a high grade at GCSE in Art/Design and a portfolio of images of recent and relevant work.
GCSE: 5/6 A-C (or 4+) including English.
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Visual Communication for the Creative Industries
Design History, Design Futures
Type and Image
The Graphic Design Process
Introduction to Photography (Digital)
Colour in the Design Process
Fashion Branding: Theory & Practice
Drawing beyond itself
Research Methods
Marketing Creativity and Innovation
Design Application: Print and Screen
Graphic and Communication Design: Professional Practice
Contemporary Illustration
Design for Sustainability
Introduction to consumer behaviour and neuromarketing
Photography
Colour: Art and Science
Book Arts
Collage Culture
20th Century Fashion History
Independent Study (Dissertation)
Graphic and Communication Media
Independent Project
Fashion Styling and Photography
Collaborative Marketing and Promotion
Information Design
Brand Communications
Contemporary Advertising
Time and Image in Contemporary Art
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.
TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.
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