Start date:September
Institutional code:O10
UCAS code:WW21
Duration:3 years
Course type:Full Time
Fees per year 2025/26 entry:£8,000 Full Time
Additional costs per year:May include equipment such as a computer, portable storage, art and design materials, sketchbooks and cost of colour and specialist printing. Non-residential trips and gallery visits may require travel costs and entrance fees.
Delivery Method:Face-to-face via Lectures, Seminars and Tutorials
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, franchised via the University of Central Lancashire.
Open the door to a creative career in areas such as branding, editorial, motion graphics, illustration, printmaking, advertising, typography and retail design.
Our course and expert tutors will help you develop creative problem-solving skills using practical processes and specialist design software – including the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite.
You will produce dynamic solutions to problems through creative thinking and a flexible approach to a diverse range of assignment briefs, competitions and live assignments.
Our final year provides opportunities to write and structure your own project briefs, respond to industry-set briefs and to enter national and international competitions.
Creative Thinking
Introduction to Graphic Communication
Design Context 1
Communication Craft Skills
Applied Graphic Design
Graphic Communication in Context
Design Context 2
Professional Practice
Graphic Design Set Project
Graphic Design External Project
Graphic Design Self-Initiated Project
Design Context 3
Opportunities for external visits and industry professionals and alumni are regularly invited into the studios as guest practitioners to deliver lectures and workshops.
Students are encouraged to seek out placements and work experience and are supported with this as part of their studies. Live and competition briefs are a key element of course content throughout all levels.
Creative students are recognised as having highly transferable skills, and could expect to find employment in a wide range of sectors.
As a graphic designer you could find a career in advertising, illustration, typography, branding, web design, app design, copywriting, editorial design, packaging/retail design and information graphics. You might also specialise in 3D or animation.
Upon completion of the course, students may choose to further their education and progress to a PGCE or MA.
Skills acquisition will be developed throughout the programme using practical briefs as a vehicle for both delivery and assessment. Basic skills development will be the focus of level 4 modules and you will be encouraged to develop and enhance these skills further at level 5.
You will be required to listen to and take part in individual and group critiques and to complete evaluations of the work you have done for each brief.
Lectures and seminars will introduce you to historical and contemporary theory and contextual themes. You will be expected to apply this learning to your own work maintaining a continuous link between theory and practice. Our Virtual Learning Environment will support your learning at all levels with information, resources and online discussion forums.
At level 6 a more independent ethos is fostered; you will be expected to plan your own learning with support from module tutors culminating in final work being exhibited in a Graduate Show.
A vibrant creative environment, including studios equipped with industry standard software and hardware, will help you to effectively communicate information and ideas appropriate for the modern digital and creative workplace. Graphic Design students have access to Apple Mac and PC suites, printmaking facilities and photographic equipment.
112 UCAS points.
Entry onto the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course will be via a successful interview, relevant design qualifications either AS and A2 level, BTEC National Diploma, or GNVQ (level 3) or an equivalent qualification in relevant areas.
Students are also accepted who have appropriate non-standard entry qualifications and/or relevant experience. Please contact the Admissions Tutor for more information.