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BA (Hons) Graphic Communication-Professional Placement Year
BA (Hons) Graphic Communication-Professional Placement Year

BA (Hons) Graphic Communication-Professional Placement Year

  • ID:BSU440018
  • Level:3-Year Bachelor's Degree
  • Duration:
  • Intake:

Fees (GBP)

Estimated Total/program:
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60
Accept letter
100
Visa
20
Fly
1

Admission Requirements

Entry Requirement

English Reqirement

  • IELTS Academic 6.0 overall, This must include a minimum of 5.5 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

  • TOEFL iBT, A total of 72, to include a minimum 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking, and 17 in Writing.

  • PTE Level B2, This must include a minimum of 51 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

  • LanguageCert Intenational ESOL, We accept the LanguageCert International ESOL with an overall B2 Communicator Pass.

  • IELTS, Please note, IELTS tests are valid for two years only for immigration purposes.

  • Undergraduate entry: IELTS 6.0. For visa nationals this must include a minimum of 5.5 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

 

 

Course Information

This year provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for, and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment.

By completing the module, you'll be entitled to the addition of 'with Professional Placement Year' to your degree title.

Before your Professional Placement Year, you'll work to secure your placement, constructing a development plan with your module leader and your placement coordinator from our Careers and Employability team.

On your return to University for your final year, you'll submit your Placement Portfolio, detailing your development on your placement, for assessment.

We teach you the critical, technical and aesthetic skills necessary to become a professional graphic communicator: designer, typographer, illustrator, or image­maker. You’ll discover the varied and complex nature of design practice.

Our aim is that you’ll graduate as a strategic thinker, innovator and maker, having produced creative and challenging outcomes across a range of media or within your chosen specialist area.

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Course modules

Year one (Level 4) modules

  • Design Principles — type and image

  • Designing With Time — type and image

  • Professional Development 1

  • Introduction to Visual and Material Culture: Design

Year two (Level 5) modules

  • Interactivity with type and image

  • Professional Development 2

  • Graphic Communication — social good

  • Graphic Communication — culture

  • Graphic Communication — commerce

  • Graphic Communication: Contemporary Issues and Practice

  • Professional Placement Year

Year three (Level 6) modules

  • Independent Practice 1

  • Professional Development 3

  • Visual and Material Culture: Final Study

  • Independent Practice 2

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Pre Courses

The Pre-sessional English Language

Due to the worldwide Covid-19 situation, we are offering a 10-week online Pre-Sessional English course in 2020. This course will be suitable for you if your current level of English language is a minimum of IELTS 4.5 in each component. 

10-week ONLINE programme: fees £1,580

  • For September 2020 intake: 29 June - 4 September 2020 

6/5 week programme: fees £1,550 - cancelled

  • For September 2020 intake: 3 August - 11 September 2020 

12/11 week programme: fees £3,100 - cancelled

  • For September 2020 intake: 22 June - 11 September 2020

16/15 week programme: fees £4,100 - cancelled

  • Due to the Coronavirus outbreak around the world, this course is not running in 2020.

Fees include:

  • All tuition

  • Course materials

  • Individual support via tutorials

Fees don't include:

  • Accommodation.

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Pathway Courses

 

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

Our graduates become graphic designers, art directors, illustrators, animators, and interactive media designers. They work across the full range of the creative media industry including advertising, motion graphics, photography, and digital and print publishing.

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year

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