CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
BSc (HONS) ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
YOUR PLACE AT CSAD
BA (HONS) ILLUSTRATION UCAS code: W220 Entry requirements: Minimum Tariff: 300 points
Accredited by:
The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) UCAS code: W290 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 280 points Career potential: You can expect to follow a rewarding career as an architectural technologist in a range of organisations. Most graduates find employment with architectural practices, although opportunities exist with building contractors or any large corporate company that has its own in-house design team. Careers can also be pursued in more specialist areas such as project management or architectural conservation. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/hndbscarchitecture
BA (HONS) CERAMICS UCAS code: W232 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points Career potential: Graduates follow a wide range of careers related to ceramics and visual arts with many establishing their own practice, while others have gained employment working in education, community arts, art therapy and the design industry. A significant number of graduates progress onto the school’s prestigious MA Ceramics course and can subsequently pursue Doctoral studies in ceramic research. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/baceramics
BA (HONS) FINE ART UCAS code: W100 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points Career potential: Our graduates go on to develop their careers as independent artists, or to enter art-related occupations. CSAD graduates are employed as teachers and lecturers or work in journalism. Other career options include curation, exhibition organisers and researchers for publishing houses. Some of our graduates have gone on to work in television production, film or digital media. Graduates can undertake advanced study with us through an MA or an MFA. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/bafineart
BA (HONS) GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION UCAS code: W210 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points Career potential: Graphic Communication is an exciting discipline that brings together creative thinking skills with a very broad range of practical media. Graduates pursue high level design and research careers in print, digital screen-based media and moving image. We have strong links with influential design companies such as The Brand Union and Elmwood London, as well as more locally with Hoffi, Stills, Departures and BWA Design. The course is a member of D&AD University Network and also has links to the Young Creative Network. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/bagraphics
Meeting applicants is important to us. Career potential: Graduates may choose to follow careers in the illustration and design professions, including opportunities in the expanding world of animation, books and magazines, web and game design, conceptual design for film and television, advertising, scientific and product visualization.
We like to show you around, answer your questions and talk to you about your work and aspirations. No doubt you would like to look at our facilities and the Llandaff campus and find out more about accommodation, transport in the city and finances.
cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/baillustration
BA (HONS) ARTIST DESIGNER: MAKER UCAS code: W291 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points Career potential: Graduates will become makers in their own right, working either in a self-employed capacity or as part of a specialist company. Their skills will situate them for working in a variety of settings including the theatre, film and television. They will also go on to be teachers and lecturers. Graduates can undertake advanced study with us through an MA or an MFA. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/bamaker
This year we will be holding three BIG INTERVIEW EVENTS in our new building. The aims are to welcome candidates applying for places, give you the information you need, and to conduct interviews. We will have a lot to show you and will be able to answer all the nitty gritty questions about studying with us and living in Cardiff. Although, we will be conducting interviews at various times throughout the year, our BIG INTERVIEW EVENTS will be held on the following dates :
12TH AND 13TH DECEMBER 2013 29TH, 30TH, 31ST JANUARY 2014 19TH, 20TH, 21ST FEBRUARY 2014 21ST MARCH 2014 Watch this space...
BA/BSc (HONS) PRODUCT DESIGN Accredited by:
The Institute of Engineering Designers UCAS code: BA: W240 BSc: W2H1 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 280 points Career potential: Graduates are capable of working in a design role, management role, running their own company, involved in research, design education, marketing, sales, model making, commercialisation of their undergraduate design work and much more. They also have the option of continuing their studies on the MSc Advanced Product Design course. Our graduates work at Kinneir Dufort Design, Seymour Powell, Alloy Total Product Design, Dyson, Sony, BBC, Panasonic, Puma, Ford, Aston Martin and Jaguar. Some have also set up their own businesses such as Tonic Studios, asbri, Spin Dogs and PRO Medical Innovations Ltd. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/babscproductdesign
BA (HONS) TEXTILES UCAS code: W231 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points Career potential: This degree provides you with the skills to enter the textile, fashion or interiors industries. Graduates can progress to postgraduate study, work as designer/makers, create businesses based on traditional and social entrepreneurship, work for non government organisations or within a wide range of manufacturing and retail industries, marketing or cultural agencies. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/batextiles
BA (HONS) PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE UCAS code: W640 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 240 points Career potential: Our photography students have had many successes in recent years; winning national competitions, being selected for national exhibitions and having work published in magazines and books. Many are already working in a freelance capacity, taking on commissions for a wide variety of client types. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/baphotopractice/
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN
WHY CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN? BECAUSE YOU WANT TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PASSION FOR ART & DESIGN
BECAUSE YOU WANT TO STUDY WITH LEADING ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS
BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BUILD A LONG AND REWARDING ART & DESIGN CAREER
Your studies are built around three fundamental aspects of what it is to be an Artist, Maker, or Designer: your unique skills; your creative ideas; and your ability to contextualise these in a professional situation.
You need to be among people who can help you to develop. Our entrance expectations (UCAS 300pts) and rigorous, but friendly, interview processes create an expert community of students who are serious about their studies in art and design. If you are lucky enough to win a place with us, you will join other imaginative, curious and astute student artists, makers and designers in our studios. Each studies a programme designed to put them at the centre of their experience, with opportunities to travel and explore ideas in real depth.
You will study three modules a year and you will only have a single formal assessment for each at the end of each year of study. You can keep developing your work and keep improving it throughout the year. This is what professional artists and designers do, so it’s what we do too. Our University is rated in the top ten for employability in the UK and it is no surprise. We work closely with design companies and arts and maker organisations and with the professional art and design community. We have options for you to develop a business, to gain work experience or even to bring your skills to a community project.You can choose to deliver a detailed business plan, rather than a research dissertation, in your third year of study.
A third of your studies are about developing core skills and techniques and about identifying what makes your personal creative identity valuable, unique and different. At least 50% of your studies will be delivered through teaching. We believe it is important that you are taught in studios and workshops by academic and technical experts who will give you the individual attention you need to build a sustainable career. A third of your studies are about exploring how and why and if the world came to be as it is and how it might be rethought or re-imagined. At Cardiff School of Art & Design you can choose to develop a way of thinking that suits you best, by choosing your history and theory seminar group. Each of these is lead by brilliant historians philosophers and theoreticians. The other third of your studies are about collaboration and exploration. You have the chance to explore outside of the University, to form life-long collaborations or even business partnerships. We also offer opportunities to work with our research groups, to work with an employer or a voluntary organisation, to travel and study in Europe, India, Korea, Australia or America or even to build your own business or creative professional practice.
Aside from being highly qualified and expert lecturers, our staff are leading researchers and practicing artists and designers. Cardiff School of Art & Design is the home of a number of international standard research departments. You will have the opportunity to work on many of these research projects and even to publish your own research before you graduate. BECAUSE YOU WANT EXCELLENT ART & DESIGN STUDIOS AND TECHNOLOGIES Professional artists and designers need excellent studios and workshops and that’s what we provide. We have designed a proper place to do art and design. Come to one of our visit days and see what we mean when we say our new building is an ideas and creative factory, with extensive workshops and resources. You can use almost everything and anything we have available from digital stitch and plaster moulding to our metal foundry or our rapid prototyping workshops. We are also home to the only MIT FabLab in a UK University. Come to one of our open days and see what we mean.
All of our Undergraduate programmes can be extended to study up to Masters level as an MDes or MFA (Professional Masters), MA (Academic and Creative Masters) or MPhil (Research Masters). All students who get a 2.1 degree or above are guaranteed a place on one of our Masters programmes. BECAUSE YOU WANT A LIFE BEYOND ART & DESIGN TOO We are in Cardiff, one of the best student cities in Europe with great value accommodation and enough malls, small shops, arcades, restaurants, pubs and clubs to last a lifetime. Cardiff is close enough to make a day trip to London possible and within reach of the Brecon Beacon mountains and the surf beaches of the Gower. Cardiff is home to design and architecture companies and has the studios of artists and crafts people. Our University has excellent sports facilities. In Cardiff School of Art & Design, we have a thriving social life of our own with subject societies and clubs and of course, frequent exhibitions and evening seminars in the bar.
FOUNDATION
UNDERGRADUATE
TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE
RESEARCH DEGREES
• Cardiff Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design) (Bridgend) allied programme only
• HNC Building Technology and Management (Ystrad Mynach)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Professional & Research Skills: Art & Design • Master of Fine Art (MFA) • Master of Design (MDes) • Master of Design (MDes) SADI • MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design) • Fine Art • Communication • Illustration • Artist Designer Maker • Product Design • Textiles • Photographic Practice • Art & Science • Philosophy • Ecologies • MA Ceramics • MSc Advanced Product Design • MSc Environmental Change and Practice
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• Foundation Degree in Applied Art & Design (Bridgend) • Foundation Degree in Ceramics (Cardiff and The Vale College) • Foundation Degree in Contemporary Textiles Practice (Cardiff and The Vale College) • Foundation Degree in Graphic Communication (Cardiff and The Vale College) • Foundation Degree in Sustainable Building Practice (Bridgend, Pembrokeshire, Llandrillo College, & Coleg Powys)
• HND Architectural Design & Technology • BSc (Hons) Architectural Design & Technology • BA (Hons) Artist Designer: Maker • BA (Hons) Fine Art • BA (Hons) Ceramics • BA (Hons) Textiles • BA (Hons) Graphic Communication • BA (Hons) Illustration • BA (Hons) Product Design • BSc (Hons) Product Design • BA (Hons) Photographic Practice (Bridgend)
MPhil PhD Professional Doctorate in Art Professional Doctorate in Design Professional Doctorate in Ecological Building Practices
www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/csad www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/studywithus CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, HOWARD GARDENS CAMPUS, CARDIFF, CF24 0SP Tel: +44 (0)29 2041 6154 Fax: +44 (0)29 2041 6944 email: csad@cardiffmet.ac.uk CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, LLANDAFF CAMPUS, WESTERN AVENUE, CARDIFF, CF5 2YB Tel: +44 (0)29 2041 6070 Fax: +44 (0)29 2041 6640 email: csad@cardiffmet.ac.uk