Your foundation year will:
- Welcome you to an engaging, experiential learning environment with a focus on active exploration, experimentation and discovery across a wide range of material, methods and media.
- Help develop your practical, technical and creative skills through studio and workshop based projects.
- Provide training in key learning skills for further undergraduate study and build an awareness of practise, context and theory.
- Introduce you to the accessible community of experienced academics, practitioners and technical staff that will support you on your studies.
- Give you access to a wide range of enviable specialist workshops, laboratories and facilities across the campus and become part of our vibrant student community through the various opportunities available within the School of Art, Design and Architecture.
- Enable you to explore and develop your personal interests and strengths as a creative practitioner.
This course is an integrated part of the
BA (Hons) Illustration degree at the University of Plymouth. Successful completion of your foundation year (Year 0) will not lead to a separate award or qualification in its own right but provides progression onto Year 1 of
Or one of the following related degree programmes:
When you complete your foundation year and elect to join BA (Hons) Illustration, you will:
Explore the excellent resources that are on offer to you, including digital software (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects and Animate), 3D software and Virtual Reality immersive media, and traditional life drawing, printmaking in silkscreen, lino, woodcut, etching, risograph, bookbinding, ceramics and letterpress.
Get insight into the industry from visiting speakers across the breadth of illustration. We have a special annual illustration event – PIE – inviting speakers from around the world; recent keynotes have been Fantagraphics and Flying Eye Books.
Get noticed. Develop your own visual voice and get noticed in the professional world by taking part in external events, commissions and competitions.
Go global. Engage with UN Sustainability projects with real world impact. We have options to study abroad on a three-month placement including Japan, Europe, Scandinavia and North America.
National and overseas study trips inspire and inform with wider cultural contexts.