Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts
UCAS Code: W221 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
About this course
Our Integrated Foundation Year course is the ideal choice for a student looking to pursue an undergraduate degree in the creative arts. It will give you the grounding, tools, practical skills and confidence to succeed in the BA(Hons) Illustration degree at CSVPA with an enhanced knowledge and understanding of specialist techniques and materials.
You will take this one year course before progressing onto our BA(Hons) Illustration course at CSVPA. This initial year is designed to allow you to explore a broad range of media, approaches and concepts in arts and design, and to develop your own distinctive voice and direction for future success.
**BA(Hons) Illustration**
Our BA (Hons) Illustration course gives students the freedom to explore personal expression through illustration. With the guidance of our expert teaching faculty, students are shown how to use illustration to entertain, communicate, influence, inform and educate. Bring ideas to life using various mediums such as pencils, paint, ink, moving image, animation, digital tools and more. Students will explore image making as a dynamic artistic practice, utilising clarity, vision and their own unique style.
Our small class sizes ensure that you will receive frequent one-to-one guidance from our highly-skilled lecturers, allowing for a more tailored learning experience. Teaching comprises of studio-based design projects, set and live project briefs, self-initiated work, workshops and lectures. By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the tools to help define your future and find an individual voice within the field of illustration.
Please click the following link to find out more about the Integrated Foundation Year: https://www.csvpa.com/course/ba-hons-with-integrated-foundation-year/
To find out more about our BA(Hons) Graphic Design degree, click this link: https://www.csvpa.com/course/ba-hons-illustration/
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Students from England & the EU (who are able to benefit from citizens’ rights agreements e.g. with pre-settled or settled status) are able to claim tuition fees loan up to £6,185. Students from England can also claim maintenance loans. Please note that it is not possible for students from Wales to get a loan from Student Finance Wales to study on an undergraduate course at CSVPA. Like other small providers, CSVPA elected not to apply for designation with HEFCW. Be assured CSVPA continue to maintain good standing with the OfS and will return to designation HEFCW when the requirements for designation with Student Finance Wales and Student Finance England are more aligned.
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Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts
Art and Design
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