Course summary

Explore your creativity and expand your professional skills by entering the creative industries on an Integrated Foundation Year degree. Taught over four years, these courses include an introductory year to build a solid foundation before you go on to specialise in your chosen subject at degree level. If you're interested in taking on a new subject, or have been out of education for a while, then our Integrated Foundation Year courses might just be for you. These four-year courses include an introductory year to help you build the core skills needed for degree-level study. This is a chance for you to let your imagination run wild and explore your creativity, expand your professional skills and develop enhanced subject knowledge. We'll help you nurture your expertise in problem solving, risk-taking, designing and making as you develop your abilities. Use your passion for photography and filmmaking to inspire audiences about nature and the environment. You’ll learn how to communicate scientific ideas and conservation stories through images and raise awareness of global issues including habitat loss, climate change and plastic pollution. The outdoors will be your studio; you’ll have fantastic locations on your doorstep and the opportunity to learn underwater photography. For your final major project, you can follow the lead of former students who’ve travelled the world and returned with powerful and thought- provoking stories. Throughout, you’ll be supported by staff who are global practitioners in photography, filmmaking, art and science. You will: Develop technical, design thinking and production skills in your chosen specialism Learn teamwork, leadership and project management skills through a variety of learning environments Develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills through the development of unique and innovative projects Go on to study your chosen course specialism at degree level ake part in regular local and UK-based field trips Have the option to learn professional underwater photography Take your skills to the industry through work placements, which form a key part of the second year Organise and complete a self-devised project in your third year, mirroring an industry brief, which could be based anywhere in the world Build technical expertise using our cutting-edge photographic equipment, as well as studios, post-production suites and dark rooms