Program Overview

International Foundation Year in Arts and Media

Our International Foundation Year in Arts and Media is designed to equip you with the essential creative and English language skills needed to excel in an undergraduate degree related to creative arts or media at Teesside University.

Why Study Arts and Media at Teesside University?

Benefits include:

• Practical creative skills. Gain hands-on experience in drawing, digital art, and media production, alongside essential academic English skills.
• Dynamic learning environment. Foster your creativity in a collaborative, artistic setting with opportunities to engage in cultural and artistic activities.
• Industry connections. Learn from professionals featured in world-renowned institutions like the Tate and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, while joining a vibrant, inclusive community.
• Exclusive access to Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). Enhance your creativity with access to MIMA, our on-campus art gallery, preparing you to graduate as industry-ready talent.
• The MIMA Great Create. Showcase your talents in this competition by submitting original art or media for a chance to be featured in a pop-up exhibition at MIMA and win exciting prizes.
• State-of-the-art facilities. Upon progressing to Teesside University, access cutting-edge film and audio studios, broadcast TV systems, and fully equipped workshops in wood, metal, print, photography, and fabric, with expert support to bring your creative visions to life.

Leading to: Interior Design BA (Hons)

You work in a dedicated design studio environment with access to high quality Computer Aided Design and superb workshop facilities. The course has an outstanding track record for innovative teaching and of supporting students to achieve high grades, You are encouraged to get involved in a wide range of extra curricula activities. These include guest lectures and workshops from both professionals in practice and our successful graduates and alumni now working throughout the world.

We not only prepare our students to become excellent design graduates but also successful design professionals. Interior Design is an exciting, creative industry involved in the design of stimulating environments for living, working, shopping, commerce, health, education, hospitality and almost every possible human activity. Often based around the conversion of existing buildings, the Interior Designer considers many design matters and factors including; the needs of the building’s end user, creating interior spatial layouts, improving circulation and function, interpreting buildings, space and use. The Interior Designer’s role also embraces the specification of materials, designing bespoke textiles, fittings and furniture and selecting colour palettes and lighting schemes.

We aim for our students to become creative design professionals and on our course you learn a wide range of skills including; design process and practice, interior decorative arts, trends, fashions and textiles, architectural drawing techniques, 2D and 3D industry standard Computer Aided Design, history of design and architecture plus the essentials of professional practice. These are all applied into your core creative design studio projects.

Projects are designed to replicate professional practice ensuring you are ready for the design profession. As a design student you will have the opportunity to work on live projects with real clients and enter prestigious competitions such as those offered by the Royal Society of Arts.

Some recent live briefs have included: working with a national chain to redesign a public house, proposals for a jewellery gallery for Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, residential apartment design, specialist hospital provision working to create enabling environments for those with visual impairment, train stations and the experience of travel, and office concepts in collaboration with a major furniture manufacturer.