Design (R63) - BDes (Hons)
Open University
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Bachelor of Design (with Honours) - BDes (Hon)

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Bachelor of Design (with Honours) - BDes (Hon)

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6 Years

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Our Bachelor of Design (BDes) enhances your design skills, empowering you to apply them creatively to today’s diverse social, ecological, and technological challenges and opportunities. It explores a diversity of creative thinking and practice used in design, cultivating professional design competencies while nurturing your unique design identity. It portrays design as a catalyst for change, showcasing its potential to tackle societal issues across various domains. You’ll participate in ...Read more

Our Bachelor of Design (BDes) enhances your design skills, empowering you to apply them creatively to today’s diverse social, ecological, and technological challenges and opportunities. It explores a diversity of creative thinking and practice used in design, cultivating professional design competencies while nurturing your unique design identity. It portrays design as a catalyst for change, showcasing its potential to tackle societal issues across various domains. You’ll participate in activities and projects that refine your skills and integrate knowledge from a spectrum of disciplines, and gain valuable collaborative experience. Moreover, you’ll craft design projects aligned with your interests, compiling your design work into a comprehensive portfolio.


Key features

- Cultivate your design identity, values and field of practice- Develop confidence and ability to work with diverse groups across different disciplines- Deepen your scholarship on design history, theory and practice- Learn how you can use design to enhance our capabilities to live sustainably- Build your social and professional networks to address real-world challenges and opportunities

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£23,352 overall

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£23,352 overall

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Students from England

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£7,632 overall

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Students from Scotland

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£7,872 overall

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Students from Wales

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£7,440 overall

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Students from Northern Ireland

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£24,552 overall

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Students from Channel Islands

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£24,552 overall

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£24,552 overall

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