**Reasons to study Lighting Design**
• Experiment and test your skills in our fully-equipped lighting laboratories.
• Learn how to create original designs through collaboration and experimentation. You will learn through practice, by designing your own work across all three years of study.
• Enhance your design and technical skills through realised creative projects and industry work placements, in London, across the UK and abroad.
• Create lighting designs from large-scale projects to small- scale experimental work, across a wide variety of fields, including theatre, live music, events and architecture.
• The programme has outstanding industry contacts and connects you with leading professional lighting designers, managers, venues and lighting companies.
• Share classes and projects with students from other programmes to learn about the performance, arts and events industries and how to use experimentation, enquiry and creative research in your work, and prepare to build a successful career.
**Career opportunities**
Our graduates leave us as creative and resourceful lighting designers, able to connect art with technology and the conceptual with the practical.
They have gone on to work as lighting designers, technicians and programmers for theatre, dance, opera, architecture, concert and corporate events, as well as in the lighting services sector.
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**“I’ve worked at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight Festival, O2 and Wembley Arena. Gaining experience and preparing myself for the real world.”** Samuel Woolass Lighting Design, 2017 Graduate
Course Details - Modules
Year 1 (Level 4):
Introduction to lighting design
Light and culture - lighting design in its wider cultural and artistic context
Lighting design practice - light as part of time-based art forms, visual perception and communication, story boarding, CAD, production paperwork
Light and performance - light and narrative, lighting as an integral part of a performance, working with directors, performers and other designers
Research and analysis of performance and the industry
Year 2 (Level 5):
Production practice - Lighting Designer, Lighting Manager, Assistant Lighting Designer or Industry study/placement
Production processes and techniques
Creative practice and research - light as a pure art-form
Research and context
Year 3 (Level 6):
Lighting practice - one or more roles as Lighting Designer or Head of Lighting
With other lighting design students, researching an aspect of lighting through a live experiment
Professional preparation
Independent research project
Graduate exhibition
Please visit our website to view the programme and module specifications in detail:
https://www.bruford.ac.uk/courses/lighting-design-ba-hons/
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
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:
W4W2
Institution code:
R51
Campus Name:
Main Site
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Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
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
This is equivalent to two C’s at ‘A’ level or one Merit and two Passes at BTEC (QCF) National Diploma or equivalent.
We offer places based upon your future potential. We may offer you a place based on lower UCAS points than shown here, or an offer that is not linked to UCAS points if we have evidence of your potential from your application or portfolio review.
Widening Access and Contextual Admissions: Rose Bruford College is committed to widening access. We encourage applications from all students with the potential to succeed, regardless of your background, and ensure that no groups are disadvantaged during the application process.
We welcome students from all educational backgrounds. For instance, we look at your age, whether you declare a disability, whether you have spent time in care, the area in which you live and, if appropriate, the relative performance of the school you attend. We offer places based upon your future potential. We may offer you a place based on lower UCAS points than shown here, or an offer that is not linked to UCAS points, if we have evidence of your potential from your application or interview.
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
You must achieve a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component or a Secure English Language Test (SELT) equivalent to this score. We accept all Secure English Language Tests (SELTs) as approved by the UKVI.
Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
64%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
71%
Go onto work and study:
80%
Fees and funding
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Channel Islands
9250.0
Year 1
Republic of Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
EU
18000.0
Year 1
International
18000.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Please note that the tuition fees quoted are for September 2021 entry. The tuition fees for September 2022 entry have not been published yet.
Provider information
Lamorbey Park
Burnt Oak Lane
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Bexley
DA15 9DF
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