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Design for Sustainable Futures at Arts University Bournemouth - UCAS

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Course summary

Sustainability should be at the heart of everything we do as designers and is certainly at the heart of this course. Research suggests that you, as designers and problem-solvers of the future, make choices every day based on ethical awareness and environmental sustainability: the clothes you wear, the food you buy, the transport you use, the courses you study and the careers you intend to follow. The decisions you make now, as the generation with the greatest potential to have a meaningful impact, will influence all our futures for years to come. Sustainability is often an over-used term that saturates the media, corporate and political culture resulting in a sense of overwhelming powerlessness for the individual; what can you possibly do, how can you be expected to make a difference? Answer, we need your ideas; the world needs your ideas, big ideas, small ideas, better ideas, now more than ever before. Often the very best solutions to a problem are the simplest, the most straightforward and the easiest to put into action. On this course we want to help you to develop and apply your thinking, creativity, ambition and imagination so that all our futures will be bright. BA (Hons) Design for Sustainable Futures is about understanding how design happens, and how it can be used responsibly to create a more sustainable future. This course challenges you to look at societal issues and problems that require change; to investigate what you can do that will encourage positive change; to develop and design proposals for change and to reflect what the world might look like after this change. Alongside gaining the knowledge and skills needed for design and innovation, you’ll study different ways in which sustainability can be defined, understood and realised as well as the social, economic, cultural and political context of sustainability. You’ll develop a way of thinking about design and problem solving that leads to a rewarding career in the creative industries. Your specialism will be in using your creativity, ambition and imagination to propose the innovative concepts that will lead to positive changes in the future, changes that might be big or small but definitely changes that will make the future more sustainable. BA (Hons) Design for Sustainable Futures makes full use of all of AUB’s purpose-made design studios, digital & traditional workshops and the Innovation Studio. Alongside academics with a wide variety of design experience, technical staff are available to enable students to access and use all of AUB’s industry-leading resources. Well-equipped design studios are provided for guided and self-directed study. Our workshops are a thriving shared space where prototypes and experiments can come to life. Digital technologies like VR, AR, rapid prototyping and digitisation can be experienced alongside traditional workshop tools, drawing spaces and shared studios. After developing a way of thinking that will help you to understand the importance of creative thinking to the design process, you’ll explore aspects of sustainable and responsible design through a series of real-world, problem-based briefs. Upon graduation you will be prepared to change the world with your creativity, ambition and imagination.

Modules

Year 1: Fundamental Ideas, Past, Present & Future, Design Practice in Context, Collaboration & Problem-solving Year 2: Design, Industry & Sustainability, Creative Teams & Portfolios, Ambitions in Sustainability Year 3: Design Context: A Passion for Sustainability, Leading the Way: Professional Project Feasibility, Sustainable Futures: Professional Project Realisation

Assessment method

Coursework and practical work


How to apply

Application codes

Course code:
W258
Institution code:
A66
Campus name:
Main Site - Arts University Bournemouth
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Please see AUB's website for a full list of our entry requirements, including tariff points where applicable. We are happy to accept a wide range of qualifications, including but not limited to: A Levels, BTEC Extended Diploma, OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma, BTEC Subsidiary Diploma(s), Access to HE courses, Scottish Highers, IB Diploma Programme, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. We can also accept many EU and International qualifications. See website for details. Email Admissions ([email protected]) with any queries about entry requirements. We welcome applicants who are currently studying or who have gained a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design and this qualification meets our level three entry requirements. This is a recommended qualification for many of our courses but it is not a compulsory qualification. Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 qualifications are considered on an individual basis and we are happy to accept applicants with a combination of Level 3 qualifications. Please check your qualifications using UCAS Tariff calculator and remember we are looking for the equivalent of 3 A levels if you are combining Level 3 qualifications. AUB tailors its offers to the qualifications an applicant is studying and looks for applicant to be studying a relevant creative subject. AUB makes offers based on up to three A Levels or equivalent Level 3 qualifications with the most UCAS Tariff points attached to them to give applicants the best chance possible at achieving our required tariff (120 UCAS Tariff points in most cases).

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://aub.ac.uk/apply/undergraduate/entry-requirements/

Additional entry requirements

Portfolio

Applicants will be asked to submit a digital portfolio for review by the course team.


English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6Academic IELTS or UKVI IELTS with 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each component (reading, writing, speaking and listening)
TOEFL (iBT)80With 80 overall and a minimum score of 18 in writing, listening, and reading and 19 in speaking. Please note the home version of this test is not accepted.
Cambridge English AdvancedCMinimum grade C
PTE Academic64With 64 overall and a minimum of 59 in each component
Cambridge English ProficiencyCCambridge C2 Proficiency English exam with a minimum grade of C.
Trinity ISEPassLevel III or level IV with a pass.

Student Outcomes

Operated by the Office for Students
82%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
88%
Go onto work and study

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £17950 Year 1
Channel Islands £9250 Year 1
England £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
International £17950 Year 1

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

All undergraduate courses at AUB offer an optional placement year, to be taken between your second and third years of study. If you’re unsure about this optional placement, you don’t need to decide now. Once you’re here and studying with us, the course team will discuss the placement options with you, so when the time comes, you can make a decision that’s right for you.
Design for Sustainable Futures at Arts University Bournemouth - UCAS