Foundation Degree - Illustration

UCAS code: W221
Campus code: H
Duration: 2 years full time / 3 years part time
Level: 4
Site: Station Plaza

About this course

Our Illustration Foundation course, based at Sussex Coast College Hastings, will provide you with an understanding of the function and scope of illustration. You will have the opportunity to approach the discipline in a way that is individual, questioning and innovative. Cultural and critical theory provides a basis for subject practice. Business awareness and vocational skills are raised through work-related learning and links with employers.

Syllabus

Year 1
Drawing
Ideas Generation and Development
Graphic Narration
Animation
Specialist Practice
Personal and Professional Development
Culture, Context and Meaning

Year 2
Concepts and Ideologies into Practice
Specialist Pathway
Presentation project
Professional Practice
Culture, Context and Meaning

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff: 120 points from a minimum of one 6-unit qualification in G/VCE Art and Design or BTEC National Awards in Art and Design. General Studies will not count towards the tariff score. International Baccalaureate: Individual assessment. GAA-approved access course: Acceptable, subject-specific units. GCSE (minimum grade C): A good profile. For non-native speakers of English: IELTS 6.0 overall, 6 in writing. Other: Art and Design Foundation Diploma. Interview and portfolio review. Accredited prior learning. Accredited prior experience.

Areas of study

You will explore how meaning is conveyed through all visual images. The use of media is wide-ranging, with the opportunity to specialise in year 2 in print-making, type and image, digital technology, animation, book arts and mixed media. For the most part, it is drawing in all its forms that will inform your experience on this course. It is the eclectic nature of the experience offered, together with an emphasis on the understanding of the critical and contextual dimensions of illustration, which will challenge you to develop your own personal style and working method. This, together with a strong emphasis on professional practice, will provide you with a sound basis on which you can draw throughout your career and in response to ever-changing professional environments. You will have access to research and information resources at the University of Brighton.

Career and progression opportunities

Opportunities for illustrators are generally on a freelance basis whether within editorial, book publishing or advertising. In addition, illustrators may exhibit their artwork and develop a range of creative ideas and applications from which they develop their own markets. Students have successfully undertaken work placements at Coley Porter Bell, London, understudied leading illustrators within the work-place in Hastings and Brighton, organised an illustration event entitled ‘Alternative Fashion’, using paper clothing and produced window displays for environmentally focused shops in Hastings as well as an exhibition at the Rye Gallery.

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