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Sustainable Product Design Top-up at Buckinghamshire New University - UCAS

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Completed a foundation-level degree, HND, or equivalent qualifications in a relevant Art and Design subject? Top-up your studies to gain a full bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Product Design. If you want to socially and responsibly, create and make innovative and forward thinking designs, then this degree can help you level-up your skills and knowledge to lean towards an environmentally aware and technologically innovative approach, which is supported by a sound understanding of cultural and critical insight and user behaviour. Why study BSc (Hons) Sustainable Product Design at BNU? A degree for you A sustainable product design course is essential to all walks of life, whatever industry you work in having the skillset to problem-solve and ensure the user-experience is as efficient as possible. The products and designs you create can change the future by answering ethical, environmental and social issues with tangible objects and well-considered concepts as we respond to global sustainability challenges. A top-up degree is the equivalent of the final year of an undergraduate degree, and offers a chance to deepen your knowledge, skills and understanding of your subject, while also getting an internationally-recognised qualification. If you have completed a foundation-level degree, HND, or equivalent qualifications in a relevant Art and Design subject, you can choose to top-up your studies to gain a full bachelor’s degree. State-of-the-art facilities We’ve invested in workshops that replicate those you’ll find in industry. We keep on top of the best equipment, using professional facilities and software for your designing needs. You’ll get hands-on with our industry standard 3D CAD systems, and benefit from our workshop facilities to produce 3D models, fully working prototypes, and computer models to demonstrate your design solutions. In these workshops you’ll be able to experiment with a range of different materials including wood, metal, ceramics and mixed media, developing traditional hand skills and working with new technologies such as our MetraSCAN 3D and utilising the latest CNC machining and techniques. You’ll explore different solutions for several areas, engaging with live industry briefs as you use your expertise to create products with a purpose. Location Our Product Design degree is situated at our High Wycombe campus, a town with a rich history within furniture making and manufacturing. With London only a short journey away, and access to a range of business and organisations relevant to product design, there are ample opportunities for visits to sites of historical and contemporary interest. As well as this we are only around the corner from Oxford and Reading - other cities full of inspiration. What will I study? During your top-up year you’ll delve into how design must be structured, analysed, controlled and assessed in order that functions can be achieved by manufacturing in an efficient and economical way. You’ll explore design methods that allow products to be manufactured, assembled and disassembled more efficiently, thus producing designs that are higher quality, easier to maintain, and are more efficient in the use of resources over their entire life cycle. Whole life costings, life cycle analysis techniques and cradle to cradle thinking will help to ensure that the environmental consequences of design choices are carefully considered. You’ll gain key understanding of the roles, relationships, and responsibilities that can play a major part in progressing and sustaining your professional practice. This includes undertaking commissions and other work-related learning opportunities such as engaging with industry briefs and/or competitions, and to devise or engage in creative initiatives and collaborative projects relevant to your work. Live briefs set by clients may be featured, allowing you to gain experience with real world, industry challenges.

Modules

Year One Core Modules Final Major Project Professional Practice Dissertation Design for Manufacture

Assessment method

To achieve the full BSc (Hons) in Sustainable Product Design you’ll need to complete the modules listed, as well as a major project and a dissertation. These Projects are designed to present new challenges to you as you progress through the course. They involve working with varied briefs, clients and requirements. By the end of your time with BNU, you’ll benefit from a full portfolio of work to go to employers with. The major project and dissertation will allow you to investigate a topic important to you within interior and spatial design. You will cover the whole research process, undertaking empirical investigation and analysis. You will be allocated a dissertation supervisor, who will offer support and advice. The Professional Practice module gives you the chance to undertake work-based learning or answer live industry briefs, gaining the practical and transferable skills you need for your career in the creative industries.


How to apply

Application codes

Course code:
PD99
Institution code:
B94
Campus name:
Buckinghamshire New University
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Additional entry requirements

Interview


Student Outcomes

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1
Channel Islands £9250 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9250 Year 1
EU £15000* Year 1
International £15000* Year 1

*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Most courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. You could benefit from financial support through a bursary or scholarship during your time as a student. For more details visit our financial support, bursaries and scholarships section.
Sustainable Product Design Top-up at Buckinghamshire New University - UCAS