Illustration
Birmingham City University
Illustration
Course Summary
Our BA (Hons) Illustration course aims to give those with a passion for image making and illustration the skills they need to capture and communicate ideas through pictures. We celebrate the challenge of finding your individual visual voice through experimenting, risk taking and critical reflection. You will also explore how your work can be applied across a wide range of contexts, from commercial work to personally-driven projects.
This course provides an opportunity to development a wide range of transferable skills and design process knowledge that is highly desirable to employers.
What's covered in the course?
Our challenging and exciting Illustration course will help you develop new skills and different ways of thinking, enabling you to find your own individual, visual voice and prepare you for the ever-changing creative industry. You will examine the new ideas, technologies and issues that affect today’s developing illustrators, as well as exploring more unfamiliar territories.
The course celebrates the synthesis between illustration and all the other visual communication subject disciplines, leading to the development of strong student collaborations that again aims to reflect industry practice.
We support a lively creative community, encouraging the value of peer learning. This learning is supplemented by an integrated workshop programme that provides the opportunity to work alongside, and be informed by, industry experts from a wide range of disciplines.
Why Choose Us?
You will engage with live project briefs, ranging from local to international, and your tutors are enthusiastic about their specialisms, fostering an invaluable knowledge transfer within the programme.
We run exciting trips to provide stimuli for your creative briefs, with cultural trips to a range of locations, including London, Venice, Berlin and New York, which will include visits to exhibitions, museums and studios.
There will be opportunities to exhibit at high-profile London graduate shows, including New Designers. You will receive industry insight from significant practitioners, with professional practice and core business skills workshops being delivered by outside agencies.
Course Details - Modules
In the first year you will initially be introduced to the diverse subject of visual communication and will start to gain confidence and knowledge in the discipline of illustration. You will develop creative and technical skills, underpinned by theories relating to creative practice. You will develop technical skills in illustration, and explore appropriate theories about illustration and creative practice. In your second year you contextualise your subject within specific aspects of contemporary practice. Live projects, industry links and competitions form a key part of the course at this stage. You will also get an opportunity to opt for a Collaborative Practice module, working with students from other subject disciplines within the School. The final study year moves to negotiated projects and involves greater autonomy and independence of study. You will develop a portfolio of work, and will have a greater depth of research and understanding of the subject.
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: W220
Institution code: B25
Campus Name: Parkside Building Campus
Campus code:
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
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Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
A maximum of 4 subjects are considered. These can be other A/S Levels (as long in a different subject) A-Levels or Level 3 equivalents.
Pass with 120 credits at Level 4
Must be in a related pathway
May be considered for advanced entry onto the second year of the degree. Subject to satisfactory comparability of modular content at level 4. A transcript and portfolio will be required (for specified courses).
Pass with 240 credits at Level 5
Must be in a related pathway
May be considered for advanced entry onto the third year of the degree. Subject to satisfactory comparability of modular content at level 4 and level 5. A transcript and portfolio will be required (for specified courses).
Contextualised reduced tariff offer: 96 tariff points or equivalent e.g. A-level CCC, BTEC Extended Diploma MMM, BTEC Diploma DD
Please visit: http://www.bcu.ac.uk/student-info/offer-making-strategy for more information about contextual offers.
Achieve a minimum of 112 tariff points achieved in either five Highers or from a combination of two Advanced Highers plus two Highers.
Where only Highers have been taken a minimum of grades BBCCC is required. Where a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers have been taken you must achieve grades of CD in two Advanced Highers plus grades of CC in two Highers.
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications (AS Levels must be in different subject to A-Levels) to obtain 112 pts
Pass with 60 credits overall. At least 45 credits at Level 3.
Arts, Media and Publishing subjects preferred but other subjects also considered.
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Achieve a minimum of 112 tariff points achieved in either three Advanced Highers or from a combination of two Advanced Highers plus two Highers.
Where three Advanced Highers have been taken achieve a minimum of grades CCD
Where a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers have been taken you must achieve (grades of CD in two Advanced Highers plus grades of CC in two Highers).
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
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Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
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• Must be in a topic related to the degree subject being applied for
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Obtain a minimum of 28 points overall
For students who do not already hold a GCSE in English Language at Grade C/4 or above Standard Level English Language (not literature) English A - Grade 4 or above or English B - Grade 5 from the IB Diploma will be accepted
For students who do not already hold a GCSE in Mathematics at Grade C/4 or above Standard Level Maths, grade 5 or above from the IB Diploma will be accepted
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Pass the Irish Leaving Certificate with a minimum of 112 tariff points, achieved in five Higher level subjects. This must include English Language and Maths taken at either Ordinary Level (minimum grade O1-O4 (or A-C/A1-C3)) or Higher level minimum grade H1/H7 (or A-D / A1-D3 up to and including 2016
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Considered with a maximum of 3 other Level 3 qualifications to obtain 112 pts
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | AdditionalDetails |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 6.0 | overall with no less than 5.5 in any level |
Unistats information
Student satisfaction : 85%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 58%
Go onto work and study: 82%
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
University House
15 Bartholomew Row
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Birmingham
B5 5JU
15 Bartholomew Row
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Birmingham
B5 5JU