Program Overview

Why study this pathway programme?

• Industry-standard facilities at the historic School of Art include print, wood, metal, ceramics, and glass workshops, a specialist arts library, and a public exhibition space.
• Benefit from industry links with a range of prestigious institutions, including Tate Liverpool, Ikon Gallery, and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
• Birmingham has one of the UK's biggest media and creative arts communities outside of London, with many based in the same district as the campus, so you'll have access to a network of local creative agencies and studios.

Leading to: BA (Hons) Art and Design

Many innovative creative studios now define themselves as interdisciplinary, a word which we define as the fluid movement across the fields of art, design and technology. Rather than specialising in a particular creative discipline, our cutting-edge course reflects how these studios practice by exploring the intersection between art and design, with the implementation of new creative digital technologies.

What's covered in this course?

• Our course will prepare you to be ready for employment within the creative industries by providing you with long-term creative skills to map out your creative future. With you at the centre, we will explore the intersections of art and design, providing a space where you can understand, develop and create a career in the evolving creative industries. You will develop the necessary self-awareness to question, make, play and create with others.
• The versatility of our experimental studio environment will enable you to explore the necessary collisions that innovative ideas creation now requires, while enhancing a range of core skills including design thinking, creative problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and making.
• Whether you choose to combine creative coding with foraging for natural materials, photography with artificial intelligence, or welding with audio performance, you will respond to live briefs set by real-life clients.
• The flexible, student-centred approach to the curriculum, informed by professional practitioners, will enable you to be imaginative, confident and convincing in designing and shaping your role in tomorrow’s free flowing, boundary free creative industries.