Undergraduate study
Art and Design 2020/21
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What’s inside Our courses 04 Animation BA(Hons) 05 Contemporary Art BA(Hons) 06 Contemporary Art & Illustration BA(Hons) 07 Illustration BA(Hons) 08 Graphic Design BA(Hons) 09 Graphic Design and Animation BA(Hons) 10 Interior Design BA(Hons) 11 Product Design BA/BSc(Hons) 12 Photography BA(Hons) 15 Apply to us
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Animation BA(Hons)
Animation
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120
BA(Hons)
Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio Accreditation: During this course you can benefit from the opportunity to gain the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) accreditation in addition to your degree.
Your course Developing interesting characters and giving them their own distinctive movements, putting together a compelling narrative, creating storyboards and illustration, so much goes into even the simplest animation. We’ll give you the chance to experience every aspect, to help you develop powerful, visually smart and creative ideas for your animation. Along the way we’ll look at idents, stings and short animations, giving you the opportunity to develop your own unique visual language and gain the technical skills to help your ideas take shape. You’ll be working in our specialist studios, where there are plenty of students from other disciplines too, so you can collaborate and spark ideas. We’ll also give you the chance to take part in workshops, live briefs and international design competitions. It’s all designed to get you ready for placements, internships and future employment once you’ve graduated.
Placement opportunities Students within this subject area have previously taken up placement opportunities with companies including: Tilt, Amsterdam; Studio Distract, Manchester; Shine Studios, York; LoveLove Film, Bournemouth and Finger Industries, Sheffield.
Your future Students who have studied in the field on Animation have gone on to work for companies such as CPL Online, Greystone Studios, Minted Mellon Designs, Tilt Amsterdam as well as going into freelance professional practice.* *
Graduate Employment Market Statistics (GEMS).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art BA(Hons)
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120
BA(Hons)
Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio
Your course From painting and sculpture through to performance and the moving image, there are many ways you can express yourself creatively. Our Contemporary Art course gives you the opportunity to learn about current fine art techniques and practices in a stimulating environment.
Accreditation: During this course you can benefit from the opportunity to gain the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) accreditation in addition to your degree.
Our studios are inspiring places, where you’ll meet a range of practicing artists who will support your professional development. No matter how complex or ambitious your ideas, we’ll give you the support and expertise to help you realise them. Visiting artist talks, trips to galleries, externally-facing projects, specialist workshops and competitions, all help to foster our lively studio atmosphere. You will be encouraged to situate your practice in a lively contemporary context to help you secure a great career.
Placement opportunities Students within the area of Contemporary Art and Illustration have previously taken up placement opportunities with companies including: East Street Arts – Leeds, Venture Arts – Manchester, Mini Me Card Company – Skipton and Plum Pudding Publishing – Surrey.
Your future Our graduates have won awards and prizes such as the Northern Graduates Prize, The Alternative Turner Prize, and New Sensations (a joint venture between the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4). They’ve also gone on to work for companies such as East Street Arts, Leicestershire Craft Centre, Pyramid of Arts, and Studio 116 Design.* *
Graduate Employment Market Statistics (GEMS).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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Contemporary Art & Illustration BA(Hons)
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120
Contemporary Art & Illustration BA(Hons)
Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio Accreditation: During this course you can benefit from the opportunity to gain the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) accreditation in addition to your degree.
Your course Do you enjoy expressing yourself creatively? Are you an artist and creative thinker? We’ll offer you the chance to explore different media in a range of workshops including painting, drawing, image making, sculpture, installation, moving-image, digital processes and photography to build up your artistic skills so that you can select the approaches that are right for you. Working in a lively and dynamic studio environment you’ll be encouraged to develop your creative and conceptual thinking. On your way you’ll be able to call on the support of our widely experienced specialist tutors, engage with a range of inspiring guest speakers and have live sessions from professionals within your chosen field. Our links with industry and professional practitioners means you’ll have the opportunity to take part in live projects, national competitions, awards and exhibitions.
Placement opportunities Students within the area of Contemporary Art and Illustration have previously taken up placement opportunities with companies including: House of Illustration – London, Venture Arts – Manchester, Mini Me Card Company – Skipton and Plum Pudding Publishing – Surrey.
Your future Following the course you may opt for further study, or could consider a career as an artist, curator, or a role in community arts, the media or design for example. Our graduates have won awards and prizes such as the Northern Graduates Prize, The Alternative Turner Prize, and New Sensations (a joint venture between the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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Illustration
Illustration BA(Hons)
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120
BA(Hons)
Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio
Your course Within this course, we take a wide-ranging approach, letting you experiment and focus on your individual creativity. You’ll have the chance to develop your unique style across a wide range of media, and get to know more about the current trends and practices in illustration.
Accreditation: During this course you can benefit from the opportunity to gain the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) accreditation in addition to your degree.
We like to keep the course as open as possible, to help you find your own areas of interest. In the first year you’ll have the chance to experiment with a range of materials and concepts, which will enable you to develop your practical skills and your individual strengths. In the second year we’ll also take a look at what’s going on in the wider field of illustration, exploring cultural contexts and professional practice. You’ll also have the opportunity to go on a placement year so you can experience what it’s like to work in a range of illustrative practices and develop your professional skills.
Placement opportunities Students within the area of Contemporary Art and Illustration have previously taken up placement opportunities with companies including: The House of Illustration – London, The Association of Illustrators – London, Plum Pudding Publishing – Surrey, Advocate Art – Worthing and Derma Décor – Rotherham.
Your future Following the course you may opt for further study, or could consider a career as an artist, curator, or a role in community arts, the media or design for example. Our graduates have won awards and prizes such as the Northern Graduates Prize, The Alternative Turner Prize, and New Sensations (a joint venture between the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4). They’ve also gone on to work for companies such as Banana Moon, Grain Creative, Marks and Spencer, Leeds Teaching NHS and Route 1 Games.* *
Graduate Employment Market Statistics (GEMS).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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Graphic Design BA(Hons)
Graphic Design
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120
BA(Hons)
Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio Accreditation: During this course you can benefit from the opportunity to gain the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) accreditation in addition to your degree.
Your course From designing billboard advertising to magazine layouts, from packaging to motion design, typography to user-experience (UX), graphic design can lead to so many exciting career paths. This course focuses on the needs of the creative industry to help you build the skills to become a professional graphic designer. We’ll look at typography, layout, packaging, branding, advertising, motion and userexperience design to get you thinking and creating. You’ll also be able to use industrystandard software and build up your knowledge of professional design packages. It’s vital that you understand how graphic design works in the wider world, so we work with a range of theories and guest speakers, giving you the chance to understand the factors that are shaping the future of graphic design. You’ll be encouraged to take part in workshops, live briefs and international design competitions.
Placement opportunities Students within the area of Graphic Design and Animation have previously taken up placement opportunities with companies including: Nestlé PTC, Lee Borthwick – London, The Artworks – Halifax, Media21a – Leeds, Creative Spark – Manchester and Singen, Germany.
Your future This course aims to help you develop the visual communication skills necessary for the fast-paced graphic design industry. We’ll enable you to take up roles in new media design, brand awareness, digital strategy, user interaction, typography, illustration and concept art for roles such as design director, digital producer, art director, social media and content developer, social strategist, digital designer, interaction designer, editor or production co-ordinator. Some graduates have gone on to work with SEA, Thompson Brand Partners, the BBC and Google.* *
Graduate Employment Market Statistics (GEMS).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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Graphic Design & Animation
Graphic Design & Animation BA(Hons)
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120
BA(Hons)
Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio
Your course In the digital era, animation and graphic design go hand in hand. From film and advertising to websites and social media, the two disciplines are all around us. We’ll give you the chance to understand the techniques and build your skills in order to go on to a career in the creative industries. We’ll look at typography, layout, packaging, branding, advertising, motion and user-experience design to get you thinking and creating.
Accreditation: During this course you can benefit from the opportunity to gain the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) accreditation in addition to your degree.
We’ll also give you the opportunity to develop your cultural awareness and your own visual language. Experimentation is key to understanding just what’s possible, so we’ll encourage you to try new things and take risks. You’ll also be able to use industry-standard software and build up your knowledge of professional design packages. You’ll be encouraged to take part in workshops, live briefs and international design competitions. It’s all designed to get you ready for employment once you’ve graduated.
Placement opportunities Students on the course have previously taken up placement opportunities with companies including: Territory Studio – London, Fantastic Media – Leeds, UYR Group – Pontefract and Banter Media – Ashton under Lyne.
Your future This course aims to help you develop the skills needed in the growing convergence of graphic design and animation. This could enable you to take up roles in new media design, motion graphics, visual effects, brand awareness, digital strategy, user interaction and concept art, for roles such as design director, digital producer, art director, storyboard artist, social strategist, motion designer, digital designer, interaction designer, interface developer, editor or production co-ordinator. Some graduates have gone on to work with SEA, Thompson Brand Partners, the BBC and Google.* *
Graduate Employment Market Statistics (GEMS).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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Interior Design BA(Hons)
Interior Design
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120
BA(Hons)
Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio
Your course Interior Design transforms ideas into experiences. And we’ll give you the opportunity to be able to create entirely new experiences and relationships between people and the places they spend time in. The emphasis is on creativity, as we explore current design thinking and push the boundaries to come up with new ways of looking at things and transforming our environments. We also focus on the practical side of things, with the aim of helping you to prepare for a career in interior design. So we’ll give you the chance to get involved in a range of projects set by some of the country’s leading interior and architectural practices. It’s going to be challenging, but it will be engaging and inspiring too. To give you the best chance to succeed, we’ll aim to give you a thorough grounding in all the technical demands of construction detailing and specification.
Example modules • Design Process and Communication • Material Innovations • Design Exploration • Personal and Professional Development
Your future The course aims to help you to develop the skills needed to work within interior architecture and design firms as well as focused retail, workplace, leisure and hotel design companies around the world. Practices that have employed our talented graduates in recent years include I-am – London, Chameleon Visual – London, BO Concept, Philip Watts Design and Grigoriou Interiors – London.* *
Graduate Employment Market Statistics (GEMS).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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Product Design BA/BSc(Hons)
Product Design BA/BSc(Hons)
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120 Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio
Your course If you’re creative and you’d like to explore how your ideas could have real impact in the world, our Product Design BA/BSc(Hons) course gives you the chance to develop the skills to become an enterprising professional designer. While you’re working on the practical side, we’ll also encourage you to think about how to research a product, and what goes into product development and manufacturing. You’ll acquire listening skills to identify gaps in the market, people’s frustrations with everyday tasks and existing products and develop ideas to solve them. Whether you’re designing solutions physically or digitally, in sketch form or 3D, we’ll focus on end results that are capable of being mass-produced. The BA(Hons) route is designed to help you gain the experience needed to work in large companies, where you’ll be working alongside technical staff and engineers and using your creative, visual and artistic skills to help develop products. The BSc(Hons) option aims to give you a wider skill set, including research, design and development skills in material and manufacturing technologies.
Example modules • Creative Thinking for Product Design • Digital and Visual Communication • Commercial Product Design • Innovation Detail Design and Specification Development
Your future The broad nature of the course, coupled with experience gained in industry, has resulted in a high graduate employment record within a wide range of organisations. Previous graduates of this course are now working in roles with well-known companies including Dyson, Pentland, Hozelock, Black and Decker, Chervon, Maltek, Electrolux and New Balance, as well as Lego.* *
Graduate Employment Market Statistics (GEMS).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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Photography BA(Hons)
Photography
Course length: 3yrs full-time 4yrs inc. placement yr Entry requirements: BBB/DMM/120
BA(Hons)
Additional criteria: Interview and portfolio Accreditation: This course is currently approved and accredited by the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP), giving you the opportunity to gain a BIPP professional qualification alongside your degree. Visit www.bipp.com for further information. The accreditation is renewed each year. During this course you can benefit from the opportunity to gain the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) accreditation in addition to your degree.
Your course Our Photography BA(Hons) course will give you the chance to understand the role of a photographer in today’s society, and the commercial paths that are available to you. You’ll also be able to explore the history of photography, the theory behind it and the different genres of photography too. You’ll be supported to develop your practical skills through individual project work. And we’ll let you mix it up and work with other people and perhaps put together a photographic exhibition, a publication, moving image or online. Course staff have a wide range of experience in the subject of photography, from international exhibitions, photobook publishers, to moving image production. And we’ve invested in the facilities and equipment on the course, which provides access to the very latest industry standard cameras, lighting and software.
Example modules • Breaking the Photograph • Screen and Time • Personal Practice Portfolio • Applied Critical Languages
Your future This course aims to help you develop the skills needed to go in to roles such as freelance photographer, or manipulator. Previous students have also gone on to work in curatorial scenarios in galleries or museums, as picture editors and archivists, or as part of social engagement programmes. Some companies our graduates have gone on to work for include JD Sports, Fisheye Studios, Next and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust in clinical photography.* *
Graduate Employment Market Statistics (GEMS).
For detailed course and employability information, including full entry requirements, please visit courses.hud.ac.uk
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From top left to bottom right – Alex Nicholson, Graphic Design BA(Hons), Faith Selley, Contemporary Art BA(Hons), Monika Bachta, Interior Design BA(Hons), Jonny Clementson, Animation BA(Hons), Dominika Bartmanska, Photography BA(Hons), Maisie Smith, Illustration BA(Hons).
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The legal bit This brochure was prepared in the Spring of 2019 for courses starting in September 2020 and is up to date as at the date of publication. Any subsequent changes to information will be published in the course information listings on our website www.courses.hud.ac.uk and you should check our website for the latest information before you apply. Changes to a course you have applied for If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment.
Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have a range of options to choose from and we will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.
Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but this may not always be the case. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will carry out suitable consultation with affected students. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you contact us in writing before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for future tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.
Major changes
Termination of course
We will only make major changes to the core curriculum of a course or to our services if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change in this context is a change that materially changes the services available to you; or the outcomes, or a significant part, of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), classes, type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum.
In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed and we will notify you as soon as possible about what your options are, which may include transferring to a suitable replacement course for which you are qualified, being provided with individual teaching to complete the award for which you were registered, or claiming an interim award and exiting the University. If you do not wish to take up any of the options that are made available to you, then you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the course without liability to the University for future tuition fees and you will be entitled to a refund of all course fees paid to date. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.
Changes to your course after you enrol as a student We will always try to deliver your course and other services as described. However, sometimes we may have to make changes as set out below: Changes to option modules
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For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators; to meet the latest requirements of a commissioning or accrediting body; to improve the quality of educational provision; in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback; and/or to reflect academic or professional changes within subject areas. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff leaving the University or being unable to teach, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to damage or interruption to buildings, facilities or equipment.
We hope you’ve found all the information you need to inspire you to become a student here at Huddersfield. Now all you need to do is apply.
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