Program Overview

International Foundation Year in Art, Media & Architecture
The International Foundation Year in Art, Media & Architecture will prepare you for an undergraduate degree in a range of fields such as media, design journalism and fashion design.

You will study core modules, which are general skills subjects, and optional modules such as media campaigns tailored to your chosen area of study, all of which are important for your academic development.

Why study Art, Media & Architecture?

• Build your portfolio of creative work ready for your undergraduate degree
• Start preparing for your future work placement with the International Study Centre’s CareerAhead activities
• Choose from career-focused, professional degrees with a high graduate employment rate
• Progress to a degree which incorporates cutting edge practices, ensuring you graduate with an up-to-date knowledge on your chosen industry
• Benefit from top facilities on a modern campus, such as the new £30 million Barbara Hepworth building – the home of all things art, design and architecture at the University.

Once you have succesfully completed International Foundation Year in Art, Media & Architecture, and achieving the required grades, you will join the first year of your undergraduate degree at the University of Huddersfield.

Leading to: Product Design BA (Hons)

If you’re creative and you’d like to explore how your ideas could have real impact in the world, our Product Design BA/BSc(Hons) courses give you the chance to develop the skills to become an enterprising professional designer. So much goes into the creation of an innovative product: identifying new product opportunities defined through applied research, ideation and initial sketching, hands-on physical model making, prototyping, digital visualisation and animation, and final details such as manufacturing and commercialisation.

While you’re working on the practical side, we’ll also encourage you to:

• Think about the new product development process and what goes into the products that help designers shape the future.
• Consider what underpins the concepts of human-centred design and responsible design, which help designers to create inclusive and more sustainable products and business models.
• Use our industry links and wide expertise in the field to help you get started on your design career. Our focus on commercial product design will give you the chance to experience real design challenges set by businesses or design organisations. This can offer opportunities to win prestigious design awards and even for your design solutions to be licensed. For example, a major high street company bought two innovative product ideas from our second year students.
• Become a creative problem solver by identifying gaps in the market, understanding people's frustrations with everyday tasks and existing products and develop ideas to solve them.

We believe design can create a better future through world-leading products that not only change lives but break new ground, build businesses, jobs, and help the world become a better place. Whether you’re designing solutions physically or digitally, in sketch form or 3D, we’ll focus on end results that are capable of being mass-produced.