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Art and Design Foundation Year

Southampton, Solent University

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Southampton, Solent University

Course options

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  • Qualification

    Access to Higher Education

  • Location

    Main Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    13-OCT-25

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Why study an art and design foundation year?

Explore your creativity on a design foundation year at Solent University. Develop your technical, creative and study skills before your starting design-related degree.

Course overview

The Art and Design Foundation Year begins with a five-week group project, enabling you to mix with like-minded peers and helping you to settle in quickly. The project also helps you decide which area you might like to follow at a later stage.

The following ten weeks are spent introducing you to the world of art, design, and fashion. This includes design history, vocabulary, methods, and academic foundation. This ten-week block also gives you the opportunity to learn and apply two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualisation techniques, giving you the tools required to conduct your final project.

The final project takes place in the last fifteen weeks of the course and is based around the specific discipline you will go on to study. The project is supported by tuition in visual presentation techniques, enabling you to communicate concepts, development processes, and final proposals. Youll also receive instruction in verbal communication and presentation techniques, increasing your confidence in pitching design ideas.

Who this course is for

Solents Art and Design Foundation Year is perfectly suited to students who may not be from an art-, design- or fashion-related background, or whose qualifications do not meet the admissions requirements of their chosen undergraduate course.

Our foundation years are designed to offer a broad range of academic skills alongside a taste of the wider industry before you start your chosen specialist undergraduate degree. Some degrees also include a year in industry, meaning you can gain valuable first-hand work experience with a year-long full-time work placement between the second and third years of your degree.

Tuition fees

Students living in Hong Kong
(International fees)

£ 17,750per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

Southampton, Solent University

Southampton, Solent University

  • University League Table

    102nd

  • Campus address

    Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton, Southampton, SO14 0YN, England

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Art & Design

    80th out of 84 1

  • Entry standards

    / Max 239
    106 45%

    79th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    54.0 54%

    76th

    11

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.12 78%

    53rd

    2

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