Design Degrees Online

Course structure

The course comprises 19 modules, including compulsory components in
Design
Historical and Contextual Studies
Professional Practice

Modules
Enamelling
Engraving
Jewellery
Silversmithing

Optional modules include
Casting
Chasing and Repoussé
Jewellery in Alternative Materials
Gem Setting
A Major Practical Project in the final semester

IT training
Your course will include the opportunity for IT training and CAD classes.

Course structure
The course includes real-life work-based learning such as live project work, site visits, competitions, exhibitions and work placement.

Level 1 includes an introduction to learning and assessment in Higher Education.

Modules include
Contemporary Jewellery in Fashion
Design Methods
Practical Experimentation
Contemporary Jewellery Manufacturing
Design for Collections
Related Practical Skills

Level 2 increasingly addresses issues related to employability and professional practice.

Modules include
Fashion Jewellery: Concepts and Applications
Jewellery Skills: Design Models
Brand Identity
Major Project
Business Practice (optional)
Theorising Design (optional)

Course structure

Level 1
Introduces you to learning and assessment in Higher Education. You study eight modules at each of two levels.

Modules
Drawing and Visual Research
Furniture Craft Skills in Wood and Metal
Wood Machining
CAD
Design

Level 2
Increasingly addresses employability and professional practice

Modules
Design, Prototyping and Model-Making
Portfolio Presentation
Business / Context of Design Studies
Major Project

Digital Manufacturing
In the last semester skills learned throughout the course fuse together in the Major Project module where students research, propose and produce their own design solutions. The resulting work will be presented at the well-attended end of year show (as featured in the design press) and selected pieces will be shown at the New Designers’ Exhibition. Students are also encouraged to enter national and international design competitions to display work in a wider design arena..

Course structure

Year 1
The first semester provides a foundation in drawing and presentation — the basic skills of the designer. You will also be given an introduction to the history of design and expected to write a short essay.

Modules
Visual Studies (relating to drawing in the built environment, galleries, museums and studio work)
History of Design and IT Communication
Architectural Drawing
Perspective Drawing and Presentation Techniques

In the second semester you will be working on design projects of increasing complexity to introduce design skills and build upon your drawing abilities.

Modules
Professional and Material Studies
Digital Manipulation
Project-based Interior Design Brief alongside Model Making
CAD

Year 2
Your understanding and confidence in the design of interior spaces is developed through a number of minor design projects leading to two major pieces of work. These form the basis of your end-of-year show. These design projects are supported by a dissertation, professional practice skills and computer-aided design.

Course structure
The Foundation is taught in parallel with the Access into Architecture and Interior Design and International Foundation Programme pathways (see factfile).

These courses share four core modules
Drawing and Model-making Skills for Design — this introduces you to a range of visualisation skills and to basic understandings of materials and construction. A series of drawing, making and computer-based workshops encourage an understanding of communicating and measuring 3-dimensional space; and the crafting, assembly and production of 3-dimensional objects
Study and Communication Skills — this explores the relationship between culture and building, both historical and contemporary, to help you develop an understanding of some of the ideas and issues involved in interior design and architecture, and the relevant research, writing and presentation skills to communicate these to others
Learning to Design — this develops the tools required to interpret different spatial and social contexts, from small to large scale, and to envisage and test appropriate design responses
Design Project — this brings together the skills and knowledge in the other three modules by asking you to take a specific design proposition from exploration and analysis, through development, to an appropriate and creative design resolution and its effective presentation

You also study four other modules
Contemporary Design Cultures — an intensive introduction to contemporary debates, personalities and events around architecture and interiors
Communication Techniques — Knowing London — this explores the city and social identity through a variety of media
Exhibition/Installation — this involves practice in designing exhibitions, including the end-of-year show
Option from a choice of modules aimed at exploring specific skills in greater depth through projects, in areas such as visual representation, construction and study skills.

Course structure
You will take 4 core modules in the first semester. In the second semester you will take two core modules and select two further modules from a menu.

Year 0 modules:
Autumn
Studies in 2D
Studies in 3D
Sound and Vision
Critical Practice 1

Spring
Notebook
Critical Practice 2

And two from:
Film & Video
Fine Art
Design
Music Technology
Material Science

Level 1, 2 and 3 Modules will be taken from the Undergraduate degree selected at the end of the Foundation Year.

Course structure
The course comprises 19 modules, including compulsory components in
Design
Historical and Contextual Studies
Professional Practice

Modules
Enamelling
Engraving
Jewellery
Silversmithing

Optional modules include
Casting
Chasing and Repoussé
Jewellery in Alternative Materials
Gem Setting
A Major Practical Project in the final semester

IT training
Your course will include the opportunity for IT training and CAD classes.

Teaching, learning and assessment
A range of assessment methods are used that will allow you to demonstrate your achievements, skills and knowledge.

Course structure
You will take 4 core modules in the first semester. In the second semester you will take two core modules and select two further modules from a menu.

Year 0 modules - Autumn
Studies in 2D
Studies in 3D
Sound and Vision
Critical Practice 1

Year 0 modules - Spring
Notebook
Critical Practice 2

And two from:
Film & Video
Fine Art
Design
Music Technology
Material Science

Level 1, 2 and 3 Modules will be taken from the Undergraduate degree selected at the end of the Foundation Year.

Course structure
Three levels, each of 120 credits.

Level 1 modules include
Art, Media, Design in Context
Introductory Practice
Introduction to Digital Communications
Software

Level 2 modules include
Professional Practice
Theorising Art, Media and Design
Level 3 modules include
Final Major Project
Work Placement

Course structure
Two levels, each of 120 credits.

Level 1 modules include
Contemporary Jewellery in Fashion
Design Methods
Practical Experimentation
Contemporary Jewellery Manufacturing
Design for Collections
Related Practical Skills

Level 2 modules include
Fashion Jewellery: Concepts and Applications
Jewellery Skills: Design Models
Brand Identity
Major Project
Business Practice (optional)
Theorising Design (optional)