UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design | Brighton MET

• An IELTS score of 5 or higher
• Five GCSEs or equivalent at grade 9-4 including maths, English and a creative subject
• A digital portfolio
• To have completed secondary education in a creative arts subject
• At least one A-Level at grade A*-C or equivalent in a creative subject
• A school reference letter
• Personal Statement - to demonstrate commitment and passion for the creative arts.

You will be required to have an interview, either in person or online.

Throughout this course you will work with specialist IFAD staff to explore all five pathway areas through exciting and challenging projects, before choosing your specialist pathway.

You will then study alongside our current Art Foundation students with additional specialist support from the IFAD staff team.

You will take part in projects to expand your creative, expressive, and technical skills. Working in a range of different scales and mediums, sometimes independently, collaboratively or as part of a small creative team. This reflects real-life creative practices in the Creative Arts Industry.

You will be guided through the process of completing a UCAS application, given advice and support in making decisions about your UAL degree choices, and provided with English and study-skills tutorials to assist you with writing your personal statement. After completing Unit 1, you will choose a Pathway specialism.

The available pathways are:

• Fine Art
• Graphic Design & Communication
• Illustration & Animation
• Fashion and Textiles
• 3D

During December, staff will support you to apply for your chosen UAL degree.

Throughout the course, you will have access to spacious artists’ studios, a well-equipped 3D workshop, a hand-tools workshop, a ceramics studio, a photographic darkroom, photographic studios, a printmaking studio, Mac suites, and a pattern cutting room.

Unit 1: Diagnostic Investigation into Creative Practice

This unit welcomes students to their UK course of study and begins with an introduction to the heart of the college, showcasing our spacious studios, and workshop facilities and the opportunity to meet and work with their peers. The Unit helps students to orientate themselves, deepen their knowledge and subject skills and begin to experience what it’s like to study on a UK art course.

Where possible in Units 1 and 2 Industry facing and live projects with external clients are incorporated into the curriculum. These provide students with important experience and specialist skills and help develop knowledge and understanding of what it is like to work as a professional, creative practitioner.

Unit 2: Developing Specialist Practice

This unit is designed to build on the knowledge skills and practices developed in Unit 1.

Students deepen their subject-specific skills and knowledge with projects and opportunities which encourage the use of the college’s studios, pattern cutting room, printmaking studio, well-equipped 3D workshop, hand-tools workshop, ceramics and plaster studio, photographic darkroom, photographic studios, and computer suites.

Unit 4: Consolidating Practice

Unit 4 is the final major project (FMP). It is a sustained, exciting, and intensely creative period within the course.  It provides students with the opportunity to take control of their own learning and demonstrate their achievement by defining and describing what they propose to study and how they will research and develop a body of independent work. The 10-week project provides students with the time to build upon previous experiences, skills, and knowledge developed in the course and the opportunity to showcase these in a final presentation of their work.

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