Level 3 Art and Design Practice Extended Diploma

The Level 3 Art and Design Practice Extended Diploma course offers you multiple opportunities to experiment with a variety of different media and styles of art and design to complete exciting projects, including work experience in the creative industries. You will study the history and context of art and design to inspire your practical work.

Modules covered:

In Year 1, learners will complete 2 extensive coursework-based units:

A1: Skills Development

Learners will explore key fundamentals of art and design practice, learning how skills are integrated and connect to generate developed outcomes

A2: Creative Project

Learners will apply the skills they have been developing throughout the programme to a creative project that demonstrates their ability to self-direct a response to a brief, from inception to communication of outcomes.

On successful completion of these units, learners will progress onto Year 2 to complete 2 further units:

B1: Personal Progression

Learners should explore a range of career opportunities, produce valuable materials and demonstrate specialist skills relating to your goals for personal progression.

B2: Creative Industry Response

Learners will focus on advancing their practical, critical and reflective skills to produce work in response to an industry brief. They will use the knowledge, understanding and experience they have gained to plan, prepare and develop a proposal for a project and apply advanced skills to carry it out from concept to resolution.

Facilities:

All students studying our Creative subjects have access to:

• Large spacious classrooms
• Fine art facilities including use of the studios where you can work on sculpting, print-making, casting, batik and many more.
• Access to the Adobe Suite programmes within dedicated state-of-the-art digital media facilities with Macs and also full, free access from home.
• A wide range of professional grade Photography facilities, including lighting rig, studio lights and dark room traditional printing facilities, including access to a broad range of film and digital cameras
• Dedicated Exhibition spaces
• Heat press, sewing machines, screen printing, print making
• Library of art and design books, magazines and online resources
• FabLab – industry-based design and maker facility with state-of-the-art equipment
• All subject-based resources provided