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Visual Communication (Top Up) 2012 Entry 

Honours Degree 1 Year Top Up

The course offers a broad choice of practical studies in visual media enabling you to advance your knowledge, skills and individuality as a visual communicator.

The BA Single Honours (top-up) gives you the opportunity to top-up your existing qualification to a full BA honours degree through final year entry; it is aimed at international students currently studying on a Foundation Degree or a Higher Education Diploma overseas. International students will study in classes with home students pursuing their BA (Hons) degrees.

Delivery of this course will be via both theory and practical based concepts. Covering a broad spectrum of visual culture theories and skills from photography, graphic design, illustration and advertising the course provides a range of practical based options for working and studying across these important areas. Preparing you for career in the creative industries the course will encourage you to develop and demonstrate your creativity and individuality, it’s what makes you different to all the others and we recognize that it is your vision of your future that should shape your choice of modules but we have included some that we think you just can’t miss, this includes a module with professional practice, the business of the industry, and the option to take a work placement.

We think you will have great fun exploring new approaches, meeting professionals from the creative industries and preparing yourself for a career with a great portfolio of work. The course may be so good that you don’t want it to end, good news is that it also serves as an ideal progression route into our masters in visual communications.

Some of our modules

  • Creative Portfolio
  • Web Promotion and Interactive
  • Self Initiated Design/Portfolio
  • Professionalism and Creativity
  • Publishing: Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
  • Contemporary Digital Practice
  • Communications Theory
  • Advanced Narrative Illustration
  • Working in the Media
  • Dissertation

Benefits 

  • professional skills focus
  • practical hands-on learning
  • progression opportunities on to the masters course

Career paths

This course will support your progress towards a wide range of careers within the creative industries

Entry Requirements

  • Applicants should possess good grades and have a minimum of two years Higher education level experience such as a UK Foundation Degree or HND, or an international Higher education Diploma from overseas.
  • Applicants are required to have IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum 6.0 in writing) or equivalent.

When can you study?

Full time

Enquiries and Applications

International Development Centre
University of Gloucestershire
Jones Building, The Park
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire GL50 2RH
tel: +44 1242 714300
email: intoffice@glos.ac.uk

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