Graphic Design

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9.24 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 10.4 k / Year(s)  
StudyQA ranking:3671 Duration:36 months

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Description

Graphic designers communicate a wide range of visual messages utilizing a diverse range of skills and media. This degree course has a strong professional and vocational approach, delivered in a supportive environment where students are set challenging projects to help develop creative individuality. At the same time the course integrates and encourages direct professional links through visits, workshops, collaborations, graduate scholarships and competitions. The course equips students with the broad technical and intellectual skills required to compete within the creative industry.

The curriculum is delivered in a professional environment using traditional and contemporary media. The course encourages students to develop their own interests within Graphic Design in order that they produce inventive, high quality, and vocationally relevant work. Lectures and demonstrations set the scene for practical activities and multi-disciplinary project work undertaken individually or in groups. Transferable knowledge and skills are embedded throughout the teaching and learning experience enabling students to become enterprising and employable graduates.

Applicants with qualifications in art, design and media related subjects are welcomed, these traditionally include A Level, National or Extended Diplomas, and Pre-Degree Foundation Studies. Non-traditional applicants and mature learners are welcomed with relevant life experience.
Graduate employment from the course sees students progress into a diverse range of local, national and international organisations. The majority gain employment within graphic design studios, or work as freelance illustrators. Recent graduate employers have included The Big Issue, National Theatre, British Museum, Cartoon Network and Random House Publishing. Students have also started their own successful design businesses, or have gone on to work in design related fields such as marketing. Some, however, choose to continue their studies at PGCE or MA level.

Student testimonials

The smaller class sizes allow for more contact with tutors, and you don't feel like a nameless person in a huge group. – Katherine Peskett
The enthusiasm and sincerity of the lecturers was what sold UCS to me. They cared much more about what the course could offer me as well as what skills I had that could be brought into the course group. – Matthew Davis
The tutors are very helpful and helped me change the way that I think about graphic design. They have shown me different ways of thinking and have encouraged us all to follow paths of our choosing. – Spyridon Proimakis

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline UK or any other EU country - 15 January ; International - 30 June Tuition fee
  • EUR 9240 Year (EEA)
  • EUR 10360 Year (Non-EEA)

UK/EU Fees Students starting at UCS from September 2012 will be charged £8000 for a full-time Bachelors degree or £7500 for a full-time Foundation degree. Tuition fees for full-time International Study: Classroom-based 10,500 GBP (£) Laboratory-based 12,600 GBP (£)

Start date September 2015 Credits (ECTS) 180 ECTS
Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Part-time, Full-time Intensity Flexible

Course Content

The course is delivered as a series of related modules that cover the technical, creative and contextual aspects of graphic design and enhance students' personal development and career ambitions. Throughout there is a strong emphasis on teaching transferable skills to equip the student with the broadest base from which to graduate. There are five single and one double modules taught in the first and second years, with three double modules making up the final year with considerable freedom to tune individual studies to follow special interests and abilities within the subject.

The first year focuses on providing students with digital and traditional skills while orienting them within the subject of graphic design. Modules include Ideas Generation, Type As Image, Graphic Media and Digital Studies. This is supported by units in Drawing, Professional Studies, History of Graphic Design, and Group Project work. The second year gives more scope for research and investigation while enhancing professional competence. Modules undertaken include Applied Ideas, Interactive Screen Design, Graphic Identity, Advanced Design Practice, and Negotiated Projects. Personal research into the theories and contexts of graphic design are developed through Critical & Creative Approaches to Design. There is also an option to take a Work Based Learning module in the second half of the year.

The third year brings these experiences together to provide a body of knowledge and a portfolio of work that will take students into future employment or further study. Modules studied include Portfolio Development, Collaborative Project and Dissertation & Critical Review. At all levels, seminars and discussions are underpinned by individual tutorials, regular visits and presentations by professional practitioners and external agencies.

The academic year consists of 24 taught weeks divided into two semesters, with the addition of assessment and tutorial weeks. A typical teaching week consists of 12 taught hours across a range of modules. Technical support is offered throughout, both embedded within modules as well as through enhancement workshops open to all students. Generous open access opportunities exist for students to complete work set in taught sessions.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6 TOEFL iBT® test : 87

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Requirements

All students are expected to be able to understand and express themselves fully in English in order to succeed on the course. Applicants whose first language is not English are welcome to apply but expected to undertake one of the Secure English Language Test (SELT) specified by the UKBA before joining the course. Non-EU applicants are required to submit SELT scores before a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) can be issued. Depending on your choice of course you are required to secure a minimum of CEFR B2 or C1 level.
Typically the following test scores are acceptable:

Undergraduate Courses:

  • IELTS (academic): 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components)
  • TOEFL: IBT (Internet Based Test) 87 overall
    (a minimum of 17 in listening 17 in writing; 18 in reading; and 20 in the speaking component) or equivalent Computer based/Paper based test
  • Pearson PTE: 51 overall
  • Diagnostic Radiography, Radiotherapy and Oncology, ODP and all Pre-Registration Nursing and Midwifery courses require IELTS 7.0 overall or CEFR C1 equivalent (minimum 5.5 in all components)
  • Cambridge ESOL at CEFR B2 level

Typical Offer:

280 UCAS tariff points (or equivalent)

Applicants will be expected to attend an interview and show a portfolio as part of the application process

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 University Campus Suffolk.

Funding

UCS Financial Support

UCS Bursary 2013 Entry

From September 2013, UCS is introducing a new bursary scheme for students living away from the parental home, to help with accommodation costs while studying.

Successful applicants will receive a £1,000 bursary in their first year of study and a £500 bursary in both their second and third years of study.

National Scholarship Programme

The National Scholarship Programme (NSP) has been created to offer support to students from lower income backgrounds. The Government has awarded a number of Scholarships to UCS for students starting an undergraduate degree in September 2013. UCS has committed to matching these Scholarships, providing fee waivers to a larger number of students.

Successful full-time applicants will receive a total fee waiver of £6,000; £3,000 in their first year of study and £3,000 in their second year of study.

Successful part-time applicants will receive a fee waiver on a pro rata basis for their first and second years of study. For example part-time students studying 50% of the full time equivalent course in their first year will receive a fee waiver of £1,500.

Suffolk Access Champion Scheme

The Suffolk Access Champion Scheme is open to students who have studied in Suffolk and are applying to study a full-time undergraduate degree programme at UCS in 2013/14.

Successful applicants will become Suffolk Access Champions and will work over two years mentoring Year 10 and 11 students to encourage progression on to higher education.

In return for their participation in the scheme, Access Champions will receive a total fee waiver of £8,000; £5,000 in their first year of study and £3,000 in their second year of study.

UCS Science Fee Waiver

UCS is introducing a new Science fee waiver for students starting one of the four year science programmes in 2013. This scheme entitles successful applicants to a fee waiver of up to £1,500 across years two and three of their degree.

Ipswich Borough Council and UCS Bursary

Ipswich Borough Council (IBC) is working in conjunction with UCS to offer a non-repayable bursary scheme to selected full and part-time students from lower income backgrounds to help with costs associated with their course of study.

A total of four IBC and UCS bursaries are available in 2013/14. Successful applicants will receive £1,000 in their first year of study. Awards are expected to continue into Year 2 of study on the condition that household income remains within the scheme threshold

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