The BA (Hons) International Graphic Design top-up will support you to think innovatively and respond to global trends in design. The course will expand your critical and conceptual thinking and encourage an understanding of wider global and creative professional design practice, whilst enabling you to develop an individual positioning for your professional design practice. Collaboration is at the heart of the course - you will undertake design practice units with current final year students, work on projects with external industry and academic research partners, and exhibit your final projects as part of our annual Degree Shows events. The one year programmes offer direct entry into the final year of a Bachelors degree to students who have successfully completed a relevant HND (or equivalent), or who have completed the second year of a relevant undergraduate degree, who wish to further develop their knowledge and skills in design.

Career prospects

Graduates have gone on to be designers in design consultancies and in-house teams for industry and public authorities magazine and publication designers art directors and creative teams in advertising agencies digital media designers and filmmakers for creative online content.