Our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will give you a wide range of skills, techniques, and initiative, allowing you to make a big impact in a broad range of industry areas. Your passion for graphics will help you to flourish during the degree helping you to develop your own communicative style in a variety of contexts and environments. You will develop a solid understanding of graphic design principles, while having the freedom to express your creative talents across a wide range of technologies and industries including, design for print and screen, moving image, packaging, publishing, brand identity, and typography and persuasive visual messaging. You will be able work in your own dedicated space in our new University Centre, with access to the latest PC and Mac computer software. You will be able to develop your skills in a range of industry standard programmes including Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, as well as Cinema 4D. Our thought-provoking lectures will give you the confidence to create strong visual messaging, helping you to achieve the aims and objectives of client briefs. You will be able to raise your profile as a graphic designer during a number of activities throughout the year, including work experience placements in the industry, entering your work into local and national competitions, and exhibiting your work at our end of year degree show. Hastings is a ‘creative hub’ meaning that you will have plenty of opportunity to work on live projects, visits to graphic design agencies and studios and gain valuable knowledge and experience. You will have the advantage of being part of smaller class sizes giving you increased contact time with your tutors, providing you with real value for money. In the first year we will introduce you to the core elements of communication and design, helping you to gain a solid understanding of visual language, visual identity, visual voice, and typography and letterform. You will also be able to contextualise your work, helping you to develop your own style and approach to meeting design briefs. During the second year you will develop more critical and analytical skills as you begin to develop the principles and fundamentals from the first year. You will be free to experiment with visual language and make your communication clear and concise. You will be given further context to graphic design, understand publishing design and begin to evaluate your work on a personal and professional level, all helping to prepare you for your final year. Core modules In your final year you will be able to fine-tune your innovative approaches to client briefs and reflect upon past practice. You will undertake your dissertation project and have a thorough understanding of visual language and communication, preparing you for a long and successful career in the industry. Core modules We believe that our degree will give you an abundance of transferable skills, reinforcing the vocational aspects of the course, providing you with intellectual flexibility and sustainability to take into your future career. Once you have graduated, you will have a diverse range of transferable skills that will enable you to start you career in this exciting industry. You will be fully equipped to seek out roles and apply your knowledge as a freelance designer, or equally equipped to work in graphic design agencies around the world. Other options could include further study onto MA programmes or complete a Post Graduate Certificate of Education. Our past students have won over 60 national and international student design awards during their time with us. Awards include YCN, D&AD and RSA.

Core Modules Year 1 101 - Visual Voice 102 - Typography & Letterform 103 - Exploring Visual Language 104 - Visual Identity 105 - Contextual Studies 1 106 - Professional Development Core Modules Year 2 201 - Developing Visual Language 202 - Experimental Visual Language 203 - Publishing Design 204 - Contextual Studies 2 205 - Professional Practice Core Modules Year 3 301 - Realising Visual Language 302 – Dissertation 303 - Professional Development and Progression 304 - Major Project

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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.

Course code: W210

Institution code: S83

Campus Name: Hastings (Station Plaza)

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The following entry points are available for this course:

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Year 3

Year 2 - 120 CATS points from degree-level study (e.g. HNC, one year of full-time FdA or BA) Year 3 - 240 CATS points from degree-level study (e.g. HND, FdA two years of full-time BA) Content of completed modules from previous study will be reviewed to ensure they map across to learning aims/outcomes of the new course. Please contact us for further information.

We welcome applications from mature students without formal qualifications. We can accept mature students based on relevant work experience, and / or a portfolio. Please contact us for further information.

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Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.5	International students require a 6.5 overall with a 6 in writing.

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Channel Islands	7995.0	Year 1
EU	9000.0	Year 1
England	7995.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	7995.0	Year 1
Scotland	7995.0	Year 1
Wales	7995.0	Year 1
International	9000.0	Year 1
Republic of Ireland	7995.0	Year 1

Studying with us will give you excellent value for money. Our lower fees, compared to many other universities, help you to save money, while getting the very best from our expert tutors.

Station Plaza
Station Approach
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Hastings, East Sussex
TN34 1BA