120-128, BBB-ABB, DDM-DDM
Access course: Diploma with 45 level 3 credits at merit.
Portfolio: Presentation of an acceptable portfolio of artwork.
IB requirements: 120-128 UCAS points from a minimum of two HL subjects at H4 or above to include Visual Arts at SL or HL (with the remaining points to come from a combination of HL, SL and Core).
IELTS: All students from non-majority English speaking countries require proof of English language proficiency, equivalent to an overall IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each band.
This course empowers you to satisfy the requirements of a brief and re-energise our environment. You’ll learn the technical knowledge to inspire your professional portfolio. We’ll teach you how to analyse, develop, test and communicate your ideas. You’ll be working on drawings and models for domestic, public and commercial projects, such as houses, museums and cityscapes. Be creative. Spend time in our fantastic studios and workshops. We have woodworking, metalworking and casting workshops to help you develop real-world skills. Try your hand at ceramics (for building facades), printmaking and life-drawing classes to enhance your sketching skills. Use our specialist computer software suites and even download software onto your personal laptop. With 3D printers, laser cutters, a welding booth and studio space at your fingertips, we’ll help you bring your idea to life.
Discover the history that has influenced architecture. From garden cities, new towns built after WW2, to today’s contemporary cities. How do the needs of society motivate design? You’ll learn to be an innovative and responsible architect. To evaluate a building’s purpose, the impact of materials and the cultural factors which underpin design. You’ll gain insights in the international and national perspectives of the built environment. We’ll encourage you to question the role of technology, gender, politics and economics in design. You’ll debate the issues confronting architects, including sustainability, urban sprawl and gentrification. By analysing theory and practice you’ll become confident in the founding principles of design philosophy.
Every step of the way, you’ll be inspired by our expert teaching team including researchers, authors and acclaimed architects. You can benefit from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Future Architects network and the Student Mentoring Scheme. We have excellent links to industry, the RIBA and the Hertfordshire Association of Architects, these will allow your to start building you own network and finding exciting work placements opportunities.
UCAS code: K100
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Level 4
Design Skills 1, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Architectural Design Studio 1, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Introduction to Technology, 30 Credits, Compulsory
C&CS L4 History and Theory - Introduction, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Level 5
C&CS L5 History and Theory - People, Buildings and Cities, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Advanced Technology, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Architectural Design Studio 2, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Architectural Design Skills 2, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Year Abroad, 0 Credits, Optional
Level 6
C&CS L6 Degree Essay: Dissertation, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Advanced Design Skills, 30 Credits, Compulsory
Final Project (Architecture), 60 Credits, Compulsory
Year Abroad, 0 Credits, Optional
Sandwich Year (Creative Arts), 0 Credits, Optional
Graduate with invaluable work experience alongside your degree and stand out from the crowd.
This course offers you the opportunity to enhance your study and CV with a work placement sandwich year. It’s a chance to explore career possibilities, make valuable contacts and gain sought after professional skills.
Our dedicated Careers and Employment team are here to help guide you through the process.
The programme supports the student in opportunities to undertake live projects which may arise through their own endeavour and works to build such opportunities into the student’s learning and assessment through negotiation of briefs and presentable outcomes. The term ‘live projects’ refers here to a range of activities that extends well beyond those that are primarily commercial and includes social enterprise projects undertaken in connection with community groups, arts organisations and other agencies. Where a student wishes to undertake a live project, it is a requirement that before it commences there is in place a learning contract that specifies clearly how it enables the student to fulfill the module Learning Outcomes, the materials to be submitted for assessment, the date of submission for that material, what the work means in terms of the student’s attendance and workload and an appropriate strategy for supervision by a tutor. That contract has to be agreed by both the module tutor and the Programme Leader.
If you take up a work placement between your second and third year of study, at the University of Hertfordshire you’ll pay no tuition fee for this year. We’ll ask you to make your decision in your second year, so there is plenty of time to think about it.
OSHC - $ 624 GBP / per year
