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BA (Hons) Creative Direction

Blending real-world experience, project management and design skills, this course will place you at the very heart of a creative team as you learn to express yourself, to design, develop and deliver as a Creative Director.

BA (Hons) Commercial Photography

Develop a specialist career, working within fashion/beauty, advertising, documentary/editorial and portraiture. Through creativity and technical skill, you’ll challenge perceptions and push boundaries, to make imagery at the forefront of contemporary photographic practice.

BA (Hons) Costume

Dive deep into the world of costume design and supervision. Developing the skills to source, procure, create and manage costumes for shows, theatre, film and TV productions in all areas of performance - from historical cutting and draping to period tailoring and couture.

BA (Hons) Fashion

The fashion industry is a fast-moving and dynamic place to work, and our course responds quickly to these demands and opportunities. Merge traditional skills and craftsmanship with contemporary cutting-edge technology and ethical practice, essential in today’s ever-changing fashion world.

BA (Hons) Fashion Branding and Communication

Behind every successful fashion brand or publication is a team of top communicators, working tirelessly across diverse areas of marketing, branding, PR, styling, social media, and trend prediction - gain practical skills and explore the thinking behind fashion branding and communication.

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Be part of an exciting, multi-discipline fine art course, set within our dynamic culture of making in our purpose-built studios. Exhibit your work with an emphasis on site-specific locations thanks to our unique partnerships with local museums, councils and research centres.

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

As a graphic designer, you’ll have to make decisions in complex and unpredictable situations. You’ll have to react quickly to new information, evolving briefs and advances in technology – collaborate, experiment and ask critical questions while working on a wide range of projects.

BA (Hons) Illustration

Through a variety of image-making techniques, you’ll discover how to work on live briefs, explore creativity and produce work that connects with people. Learn to experiment, test, and develop your work through the diverse world of illustrative practices.

BA (Hons) Make-up for Media and Performance

Spectacular make-up and dramatic special effects can transform a production. You’ll develop skills that are a real asset to a wide range of performance industries, from theatre to TV, and from the music business to the world of fashion and film.

BA (Hons) Performance Design and Film Costume

Gain hands-on experience in historical, contemporary and experimental costume design for Film and TV, and performance design for Film, TV, Theatre and site-specific performance, allowing you to become an innovative and adaptable designer.

BA (Hons) Photography

Engage with contemporary photography in an individually creative and experimental manner. Visually led, the course offers an opportunity to define your practice against a historical background and position it within a contemporary context.

BA (Hons) Textiles

Learn the practical, professional and entrepreneurial skills to work as part of a team, or even set up your own business in Textiles. You’ll study textiles in its widest sense and cover a wide range of skills, from print and stitch embellishment to dyeing and mixed media construction.

Looks

BA (Hons) Communication Design and Strategy

Combine graphic communication and business strategy, to bring powerful messages to life through strategic design thinking. The skills you’ll gain will open career opportunities in roles such as marketing strategists, graphic designers, brand strategists and creative directors.

BA (Hons) Curation, Exhibition and Experience Design

Gain the knowledge to conceptualise, curate, and design exhibitions and experiences across both cultural and creative industry contexts. Explore the fields of creative design, curatorial practice, marketing, and project management, to develop skills in the field of exhibition and experience design.

BA (Hons) Games Art and Design

Create and develop innovative gaming perspectives through conceptualisation, research, development and generating original concept art. You’ll experiment with gameplay, learn character animation techniques and gain valuable knowledge of the gaming industry.

BA (Hons) Animation Production

We’ll introduce you to the fundamental skills of drawing and painting, along with training in industry-standard software. Apply your skills to hand-drawn, stop-motion, and CGI work, as we prepare you for a career that could see you work in film, commercials or even video game production.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing

Stories are at the heart of how we communicate and understand the world. Gain the skills to join the next generation of creative storytellers, and develop your own voice. Through a range of exciting projects, you’ll explore the whole writing process – from idea generation and research to editing.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online)

Creative writing is becoming more and more important. It's just as integral to arts and entertainment as it is to business and commerce. A career in creative writing could see you working in publishing, a literary agency or in education.

Behind every successful fashion brand or publication is a team of top communicators, working tirelessly across diverse areas of marketing, branding, PR, styling, social media, and trend prediction – gain practical skills and explore the thinking behind fashion branding and communication.

Talks

BA (Hons) Acting

Discover what it takes to turn natural talent into a career. You’ll try your hand at everything from classical acting to contemporary performance. Guided by practical insight and artistic guidance, build the self-discipline, stamina and ambition to succeed in a notoriously demanding acting industry.

BA (Hons) Events Management

We’ll provide you with the skills that you need to become not only the experienced manager at the heart of every event but an experienced architect, and a designer of time. Alongside your studies, you’ll also gain further opportunities to add to that portfolio, including a formal work placement.

BA (Hons) Film Production

Gain a solid grounding in fundamental, traditional practices, such as shooting on film, as well as exploring the complex creativities of digital production and modern filmmaking protocols, and develop your understanding of the creative and commercial realities of film production.

BA (Hons) Visual Effects (VFX) for Film and Television

With our top-of-the-range, industry-level VFX labs, develop a foundation in traditional artistic techniques, such as drawing, colour theory, perspective, photography and composition, and learn what it takes to create your own feature film-quality visual effects.

Moves

BA (Hons) Creative Technologies

Bridge the gap between creativity and technology, and develop your practical knowledge of CreaTech through emerging technologies such as AI, projection mapping, digital scanning, VR, AR, responsive animatronics, and physical interactive engagement.

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design for Health and Wellbeing

Place human-centred design at the heart of everything you do as you transform the environmental experience from debilitation to invigoration. Learn to design spaces and environments that don’t expose people to situations that might be dangerous to their health.

BA (Hons) Architecture (Part 1 ARB/RIBA)

Architecture is an expression of society and can be read in the way we plan, use, demolish and preserve our city. During your studies, you’ll learn to address your architectural proposals in relation to the city, the
environment, and people – through interrelated needs and desires.

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design

Understand the three-dimensional potential, the atmosphere, and the identity of the spaces in which we live, work, rest, and play. You’ll develop skills through the adaptive reuse, rebranding, remodelling, recycling and recommunication of existing spaces, structures and environments.

BA (Hons) Modelmaking

With access to the latest technology and traditional resources, you’ll learn to make things using extensive materials, tools, and techniques. Develop the making skills needed for rewarding careers in film,
architecture, exhibition, design, and take imaginative leaps in creative design and making.

Works

Place human-centred design at the heart of everything you do as you transform the environmental
experience from debilitation to invigoration. Learn to design spaces and environments that don’t expose people to situations that might be dangerous to their health.

Be part of an exciting, multi-discipline fine art course, set within our dynamic culture of making in our purpose-built studios. Exhibit your work with an emphasis on site-specific locations thanks to our unique
partnerships with local museums, councils and research centres.

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