Level: Undergraduate
Study Mode: Full-time / Part Time
Duration: 2 years (full time) 4 years (part time)
Application: To UCAS (full time) Direct to College (part time)
Application Deadline: Route A 15 Jan 09 Route B 24 Mar 09
UCAS Course Code: Route A W280
Route B E280
Institution Code: H18
Validated By: Subject to Validation

Website design companies need designers with innovative and original ideas, who also have an understanding of the specialist knowledge needed to design and produce websites which capture and maintain the viewers attention whilst responding to the demand for usability.

Website design is now firmly established as a specialist area within the Media Arts department, and within the communication industries as a whole. This course has clear links with graphic design, but provides students with the additional specialist skills and knowledge necessary in order to effectively design for the internet.

This course provides an ideal platform for students who wish to develop the specialist skills required to gain employment within this exciting industry, this may include applicants who already have some experience of undergraduate education, and who recognise how their skills can be developed further, and applied directly to website design and production.

Year one equips students with the fundamental skills and understanding necessary to effectively communicate using the internet. This will include inductions into relevant software, and modules in ‘Creative Thinking’, ‘Type & Image’, and introductions to ‘Interactivity’ and ‘Narrative Sequence’.

In Year 2 students will combine these skills whilst also developing an understanding of website construction, and gain experience of professional practice by responding to a range of ‘live’ project briefs set by real clients, and visits to website design production companies.

Students who successfully complete this course will be appropriately qualified to gain employment within the digital media and creative industries.

Students who wish to continue their studies may progress on to the one year BA(hons) Graphic & Media Design (top-up)

Minimum age 18
Successful portfolio interview
160 - 200 UCAS Tariff Points
Mature Students with related experience

English as a second language: IELTS score 5.0 at point of interview on achieving 6.0 (writing 5.0) by June of the subsequent year

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