BA (Hons) Visual Communication (Top-Up)

Course Overview

Our BA Top Up in Visual Communications degree encourages students to explore a diverse range of areas including photojournalism, painting, and graphic design. The degree will include modules exploring applied communications and technical skills along with history and theory of communications in different forms. With new media emerging on a continuous basis, this field changes frequently, but basic principles of good communication remain constant whether the medium is a traditional printed brochure or a mobile advertisement. Students will learn how to communicate ideas effectively across various media and practices, challenging them with new and innovative approaches, and analyzing the reasoning behind their chosen methods. This will help students produce an interdisciplinary portfolio of artwork that can span a range of areas including graphic design, illustration, web, moving image, comics, infographics, and packaging. Throughout their course of study, specialist tutors will support students €˜work, enabling independent practitioners who are prepared for the world of visual creativity

General Eligibility

a pass in a BTEC HND; or a Foundation Degree; or a recognized UK or overseas equivalent; or another level 5 qualification in a related field

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• Students whose medium of study at HND/FDA or equivalent qualification is not English are required to produce evidence of English language proficiency at IELTS: 6.0