Product Design

Description

This course has a world-wide reputation for producing top-class designers, offering them the opportunity to innovate, create, explore and develop in an exciting atmosphere supported by experienced, professional staff.

WHY CHOOSE THIS COURSE?

Product Design offers a range of skills that can be applied to all areas of creating products for people to use. Our specialist areas include consumer product design, industrial product design, and design for sports products and toys. Our graduates work at the cutting edge of product design generating new concepts and innovations for home and professional items.
If you choose this course you will benefit from:

• strong associations with leading employers;
• studying within an award-winning department; receiving a Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education 2007, the UKs only Transport and Product Design Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning by the Higher Education Funding Council in 2005;
• visiting professionals from industry who take an active part in your education and offer a visiting speaker programme;
• placement opportunities in established design companies: recent examples include Design Works, and 1HQ;
• use of substantial workshops and equipment for 3D model making which develops your practical skills and expertise to prototype your designs.

How will this course enhance my career prospects?

We have a long record of producing graduates who are influential designers in a wide range of fields. By the time you graduate you will be used to working pro-actively, working in teams, and meeting deadlines and targets by contributing your own ideas and developing the ideas of others.

With the academic knowledge you will acquire on the course, and a year out in an industry setting, you will be well prepared to start a career in product design.

WORK PLACEMENTS

Students on the four year course have the option of undertaking a professional work placement.

NO HIDDEN EXTRAS

The financial considerations of University study are of course, important, and it would be natural to worry about the possibility of having to face unexpected hidden extras. At Coventry University there is an absolute commitment to ensuring everything is clearly communicated in advance.

In each course description you will find what is included in the fees, what is not, and if there are any possible additional extras, a projection of what the possible costs would be.

ADD+VANTAGE

The focus on preparing students for successful futures sets Coventry apart as a university. The key: developing and enhancing students' employabilityand delivering a serious competitive advantage in the jobs market. At Coventry, that starts right from the beginning.

The Add+vantage modules teach a range of work experience and extra-curricular activities that are taken each year, and which broaden students knowledge and skills within a work focused environment. There is a very broad range of Add+vantage free-choice subject areas, and they are arranged in themes.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Students have the opportunity to apply for placements in industry with the benefit of the departments well established associations and contacts. Those taking the four year course, which includes the Professional Enhancement Year, have the opportunity to apply for longer placements lasting for varying periods of time that may be in the UK or overseas.

Through exchange and commercial partners, we have placed and supported students in international design internships. For example, students who have specialised in the toy industry have obtained design experience in Hong Kong and China. The department has a wide network of former students who are active in expanding our international design associations.

GLOBAL LEADERS PROGRAMME

To prepare students for the challenges of the global employment market and to strengthen and develop their broader personal and professional skills Coventry University has developed a unique Global Leaders Programme.

The objectives of the programme, in which postgraduate and eligible undergraduate students can participate, is to provide practical career workshops and enable participants to experience different business cultures

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 9700 Year (EEA)
• EUR 12200 Year (Non-EEA)

EU £8280; Overseas £10560;

• English

Course Content

This course offers the options of a three year BA (Hons) degree or four year MDes or BA (Hons) degree that include the third year `Professional Enhancement´.
On the first year of the course you will learn 2D and 3D techniques for generating, developing and communicating innovative product design ideas using manual and digital media supported by historical, environmental and technological contextual studies.

During the second year you will focus on your own particular strengths and interests. Learning will involve branding and design for different market places, and you will learn how to evaluate your work in relation to identified objectives.

The final year of the three year BA (Hons) degree involves your entering a national competition, followed by your major project. Students are expected to exhibit in our prestigious Degree Show.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

5 GCSEs at grade A*-C including English Language and Mathematics, or specified equivalents.

A-Levels: CCC to include at least one Art or Design subject

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: MMM in an Art and Design subject

The Access Diploma: 60 credits to include 45 credits at level 3. Access applicants can meet the GCSE requirements through their current studies and do not need to have these qualifications separately.

International Baccalaureate: 27 points in the IB Diploma to include Art and Design at Higher level.

English as a Foreign Language: IELTS 6.0.

Applicants will be required to attend an interview and portfolio review.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Coventry University.