Cardiff School of Art & Design Undergraduate Prospectus 2015/16

CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY BSc (HONS)/HND The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) UCAS code: W290 (BSc) 12KW (HND) Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 280 points (BSc) 220 points (HND)

GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BA (HONS) UCAS code: W210 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points

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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-anddesign.org/hndbscarchitecture

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

ILLUSTRATION BA (HONS) UCAS code: W220 Entry requirements: Minimum Tariff: 300 points

ARTIST DESIGNER: MAKER BA (HONS) 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

CERAMICS BA (HONS) 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

FINE ART BA (HONS) 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.

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 visualisation. cardiff-school-of-art-and-design.org/baillustration

YOUR PLACE AT CSAD Meeting applicants is important to us.

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.

This year we will be holding seven ‘Big Interview Events’ in our new building. The aims are to welcome candidates applying for places, give you the information you need, and conduct interviews. We will have a lot to show you and will be able to answer all your questions about studying with us and living in Cardiff. The dates of our ‘Big Interview Events’ are as follows, but we will be conducting interviews throughout the year for people who miss these or who are unable to attend on these dates.

The Interview Days for 2015 entry are:

10 DECEMBER 2014 28 & 30 JANUARY 2015 4 & 6 FEBRUARY 2015

PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE BA (HONS)

11 & 13 FEBRUARY 2015

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/

PRODUCT DESIGN BA/BSc (HONS) The Institute of Engineering Designers UCAS code: BA: W240 BSc: W2H1 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 280 points Accredited by:

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

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TEXTILES BA (HONS) 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

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

commitment, you will be encouraged throughout to establish a greater sense of what makes your creative identity both valuable and unique.

Your studies are built around three fundamental aspects of what it is to be an artist, maker, or designer: unique skills; creative ideas; and an ability to contextualise these in a professional situation.

These essential qualities – which are dependent upon one another – will form the basis for each of your briefs and assignments, throughout your three years at CSAD. They will be the markers of your progress towards being a well-rounded graduate; an individual who possess not only the talent, but also the confidence, experience, and insight, to thrive as a creative professional in today’s world. Your core skills will be a consistent focus, as you explore both new and established mediums and identify those practices that you’d like to pursue further.

In terms of your ideas, your tutors will be encouraging you to constantly reflect, question, and asses; to explore how and why the world came to be as it is and how it might be re-thought or re-imagined.

Contextualizing your skills and ideas is about gaining practical and professional experience. You will have a choice of projects to undertake, where you will collaborate with students from across the school’s other disciplines.

You will also have the chance to take up placements with an employer or voluntary organization. You may elect to join a research group or exhibit your work. You also have the chance to travel and study in Europe, India, Korea, Australia, Morocco or America. You can even begin to build your own business or creative professional practice.

With at least half of your studies delivered through teaching and the other half through your own

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO STUDY WITH LEADING ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS You need to be among people who will share in your passion and help you reach your potential. Our entrance expectations (300 UCAS points) and rigorous, but friendly, interview process create an expert community of students who are serious about their studies in art and design.

You will be joining other imaginative, curious and astute students artists, makers and designers in our studios.

People who are at the top of their game will teach you.

CSAD staff, academic and technical, as well as some of our administrative staff, are practitioners in their own right.

Our academic staff are engaged in front-line research and in business projects which ensure that we teach from a real position.

BECAUSE YOU WANT EXCELLENT ART AND DESIGN STUDIOS AND TECHNOLOGIES Professional artists and designers need excellent studios and workshops – and that’s what we provide. Our new facility on the Llandaff Campus is an ideas and creative factory, with extensive workshops and resources. Almost everything and anything we have available is for our students to use, from digital stitch and plaster moulding to our metal foundry and our rapid prototyping workshops.

We are also home to the only MIT accredited FabLab in a UK university.

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BUILD A LONG AND REWARDING ART AND DESIGN CAREER You will study three modules each year and, at the end of each year, you’ll have just one single formal assessment.

You will be developing your work and improving it throughout the year, following the example of professional artists and designers; this is how they work, so it’s how we work too. You learn by thinking, enquiring and practice.

We work closely with design companies, arts and maker organizations, as well as the professional art and design community. There are tangible opportunities for you to gain work experience, bring your skills to a community project, and make professional contacts of the sort that have proven invaluable to countless graduates before you.

In your final year, you can elect to produce a detailed business plan instead of a research dissertation. Indeed you can navigate your three years with either a business or an academic focus. It’s up to you. We even have an incubation facility to support our best graduates in the establishment of their companies.

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 achieving a 2:1 or above are guaranteed a place on one of our Masters programmes.

BECAUSE CARDIFF IS AMAZING Cardiff has such great provision for the arts, entertainment and sport. The mountains and sea are within such easy reach. What’s not to like?

FOUNDATION

UNDERGRADUATE

TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE

RESEARCH DEGREES

• Cardiff Diploma in Foundation Studies

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HNC Building Technology and Management (Ystrad Mynach)

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HND Architectural Design & Technology

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Master of Fine Art (MFA) Master of Design (MDes) Master of Design (MDes) SADI

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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)

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MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design) Specialist Pathways only • Art & Science • Philosophy • Ecologies • Death and Visual Culture

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Postgraduate Certificate in Research Skills: Art & Design

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MA Ceramics MSc Advanced Product Design

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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)

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MPhil PhD Professional Doctorate in Art Professional Doctorate in Design

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