StudyQA — Bachelor: Graphic Design — University of Edinburgh

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Description Contents Requirements

Graphic Design has a continuously expanding visual vocabulary. It sorts and differentiates, it informs and promotes, the process is purposeful and offers huge potential for a variety of creative endeavours. Balancing pre-determined project parameters alongside personal expression is the exciting mix of this subject as is the interchange of traditional and contemporary technologies.

Graphic design must challenge the status quo, cross boundaries, think backwards from the future and develop powerful and novel solutions. Designers should be observant and culturally and historically aware to show openness, understanding and receptivity.

At ECA we encourage bold, lateral thinking and understanding of process, technique and business, to produce innovative, emotive, enduring and aesthetic design through intense, sustained involvement with the design process.

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September

COMPULSORY COURSES
This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).

Code	Course Name	Period	Credits
DESI07039	Design Studio 1 - Graphic Design	Full Year	40

DESI07029	Design Research 1 - Graphic Design	Full Year	40

DESI07019	Design Collaboration 1 - Graphic Design	Full Year	20

DESI07012	Design Context 1	Full Year	20

COURSE OPTIONS
This DPT has 0 set(s) of course options with the following rules.

Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

COMPULSORY COURSES
This DPT has 3 compulsory course(s).

Code	Course Name	Period	Credits
DESI08046	Design Studio 2 - Graphic Design	Full Year	40

DESI08037	Design Research 2 - Graphic Design	Full Year	40

DESI08027	Design Collaboration 2 - Graphic Design	Full Year	20

COURSE OPTIONS
This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.

Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, during Full Year

Code	Course Name	Credits
DESI08051	Design Context 2: Visual Narratives	20
DESI08052	Design Context 2: Design and Society	20
DESI08053	Design Context 2: Modernism & After	20
DESI08054	Design Context 2: Issues in Contemporary Cinema	20

Year 3, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

COMPULSORY COURSES
This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).

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Course Name

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Credits

COURSE OPTIONS
This DPT has 14 set(s) of course options with the following rules.

Overarching rule collection group: A
Select exactly 60 credits from these collections:

Select exactly 40 credits course level 09, during Semester 1
DESI09078 Design Externality 3 Major (Semester 1) - Graphic Design (40 credits)
AND

Select exactly 20 credits course level 09, during Semester 1
DESI09026 Design Research and Context 3 (Semester 1) (20 credits)

Select exactly 40 credits course level 09, during Semester 1
DESI09058 Design Externality 3 Work-Based Placement (Semester 1) - Graphic Design (40 credits)

Notes:This combination of courses are for those going on Work-Based Placement

AND

Select exactly 20 credits course level 09, during Semester 1
DESI09027 Design Research and Context Placement 3 (Semester 1) (20 credits)

Notes:This combination of courses are for those going on Work-Based Placement

Select exactly 20 credits course level 09, during Semester 1
DESI09064 Design Externality 3 Minor (Semester 1) - Graphic Design (20 credits)
AND

Select exactly 20 credits course level 09, during Semester 1
DESI09026 Design Research and Context 3 (Semester 1) (20 credits)
AND

Select exactly 20 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, during Semester 1
Overarching rule collection group: B

Select exactly 60 credits from these collections:

Select exactly 40 credits course level 09, during Semester 2
DESI09082 Design Externality 3 Major (Semester 2) - Graphic Design (40 credits)
AND

Select exactly 20 credits course level 09, during Semester 2
DESI09030 Design Research and Context 3 (Semester 2) (20 credits)

Select exactly 40 credits course level 09, during Semester 2
DESI09094 Design Externality 3 Work-Based Placement (Semester 2) - Graphic Design (40 credits)
AND

Select exactly 20 credits course level 09, during Semester 2
DESI09031 Design Research and Context Placement 3 (Semester 2) (20 credits)
OR

Select exactly 20 credits course level 09, during Semester 2
DESI09042 Design Externality 3 Minor (Semester 2) - Graphic Design (20 credits)
AND

Select exactly 20 credits course level 09, during Semester 2
DESI09030 Design Research and Context 3 (Semester 2) (20 credits)

AND

Select exactly 20 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, during Semester 2

Year 4, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

Notes: In discussion with the Course Organiser there is an option to take DESI10018 and DESI1007 in place of DESI10038 and DESI10006

COMPULSORY COURSES
This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).

Code	Course Name	Period	Credits
DESI10048	Design Studio 4 (Graphic Design)	Full Year	40

DESI10038	Design Research 4 (Graphic Design)	Full Year	40

DESI10032	Professional Design Practice 4 (Graphic Design)	Full Year	20

DESI10006	Design Context 4	Full Year	20

COURSE OPTIONS
This DPT has 0 set(s) of course options with the following rules.

Attestat plus completion of a recognised foundation programme Or At least one year of the Bakalavr or Specialist degree with an average grade of 'good' (4.0/5.0)
IELTS Academic module overall 6.5 with 5.5 in each component
TOEFL-iBT 92 or above with 20 in each section
Cambridge English: Advanced & Proficiency overall 176 with 162 in each component
Pearson Test of English (Academic): Total 61 with at least 51 in each "Communicative Skills" section
Trinity ISE: ISE II with a distinction in all four components

Mini-portfolio

Applicants will be asked to submit a digital mini-portfolio to provide evidence of artistic aptitude and potential, this will form an important part of the selection process. The deadline for mini-portfolio submission is 12:00 noon GMT on Tuesday 31 January 2017 and late mini-portfolio submissions will not be accepted. Applicants applying to enter Year 2 of our programmes, who pass the first stage of selection, will be invited to bring a full portfolio to an Applicant Day.

Important dates

Early November 2016: Mini-portfolio submissions site opens
15 January 2017: UCAS deadline for Home/EU applicants
31 January 2017 (12:00 non GMT): Mini-portfolio submission deadline
13-17 March 2017: Applicant Days for applicants applying to enter Year 2
30 June 2017: Final deadline for UCAS applications from applicants from outside the EU.

BTECs

Applicants studying the Pearson BTEC Diploma in Art and Design will be considered for entry with the following:

Pearson BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Art and Design with Merit.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Art and Design with Merit plus one A Level at Grade B.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Art and Design with Merit plus two A Levels at Grade B.

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