Product and Furniture Design (with Foundation Year)
Bath Spa University
Product and Furniture Design (with Foundation Year)
Course Summary
This cutting edge design course focuses on making and innovation to address the future of production.
- Learn from design and industry experts to become a digitally-literate, creative and critical designer.
- Explore materials through new technologies and traditional processes in our excellent workshops.
- Develop the skills you need to flourish in the global workplace through strong industry experience.
Want a career in design? If you're motivated by making, this innovative product and furniture design course is for you.
Taught by industry professionals, BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design enables you to build a foundation of technical and manufacture processes in digital making, CAD and traditional materials. You'll develop your individual creative vision through purposeful briefs, materials and scales.
Essential professional skills and entrepreneurship are at the heart of the curriculum, providing you with new opportunities as a designer in a sustainable, digital and global economy. You’ll become a flexible problem-solver and expert collaborator who can respond to issues across disciplines.
**Integrated Foundation Year**
Explore art and design through an integrated Foundation year before you progress onto your chosen BA (Hons) degree.
Evolve. Build your confidence, skills and knowledge in preparation for your undergraduate course.
Develop. Challenge perceptions, make, explore and investigate new territory through active projects.
Realise. Pursue your undergraduate specialism.
We want to ensure that you reach your full potential. That's why we've devised an intensive and experimental Foundation course that develops your art and design abilities in relation to contemporary practice, and introduces you to our exceptional facilities and staff.
You'll enhance your drawing skills, and explore the many materials and processes encountered in art and design practice. As the year progresses, you'll begin to specialise in your chosen discipline, acquiring advanced skills and knowledge in preparation for continued study.
Course Details - Modules
In Year One you’ll develop a foundation of core making processes, material knowledge and experimentation, whilst acquiring skills in design communication, visualisation, research and prototyping.
In Year Two you’ll focus on external engagement with industry, deepen your understanding of the forms of design practice and opportunities available, and start to identify your personal direction in design. You’ll also gain valuable experience of collaboration and project management.
Finally, in Year Three you’ll practice, develop, challenge and explore design in preparation for establishing your career. You’ll deepen your understanding of your field of practice and also start developing professional networks, and produce product portfolios and promotional material.
For more information please refer to our website.
Course Details – Assessment Method
You're assessed at the end of each module via presentation of your work, be it experimental, developmental, journal-based, reflective analyses of talks and workshops, or documentation and analysis of exhibitions visited with the course.
Presented works may include journals / sketchbooks, material experiments / test samples, and digital files, in the form of USB, DVD and/or URLs.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
TT20
Institution code:
B20
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Foundation
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Grades CC with Grade C in Art, or other art/design related subject preferred.
Grade Merit is preferred.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.0
English Language Requirements for International and EU Applicants - IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.
Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
68%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
74%
Go onto work and study:
84%
Fees and funding
EU
9250.0
Year 1
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Additional Fee Information are not listed for this Course.
Provider information
Newton Park
Newton St Loe
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Bath
BA2 9BN
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