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Year 1
You’ll spend the first year developing essential visual language skills, exploring a range of practical media, techniques and processes in an experimental manner.
You'll study the five key specialisms of:- Fine art
- Fashion and textiles
- 3D design
- Lens-based media (photography and film)
- Visual communication.
This will enable you to build a fundamental skill set for a future in art, including drawing, photography, construction and making, typography, animation, interactive design and moving imagery with sound.
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Year 2
As you enter the second year, you’ll work alongside students from the Diploma in Art & Design – Foundation Studies and Access to Higher Education Diploma – Art & Design courses, and continue one of the specialisms as a pathway to focus on for the rest of the course.
Once you’ve picked a pathway from the five specialisms, you’ll develop specific skills in this area of study and prepare a portfolio to support an application to an undergraduate degree or, in some cases, direct employment.Towards the end of the course, you’ll undertake a final major project and prepare for your diploma exhibition.The second year of the Extended Diploma is fully integrated into the Foundation Diploma and the Access to Higher Education Diploma, so students share studios and lectures. -
Fees and additional course costs
Tuition fees
Currently, if you are an UK or EU student under 19 years old on the 31 August before your course starts, you don’t have to pay any tuition fees.Additionally, you don't have to pay tuition fees if you are an UK or EU student aged between 19-23 on the 31 August before your course starts, and you are studying for your first full level 3 qualification.
The fees for 2020 entry are:
- UK and EU students - £4,290
- International students - £12,700 (standard fee)
- International students - £12,190 (full early payment fee)
The fees for 2021 entry have not been confirmed yet but once we have the details we will publish them here.
Additional course costs
In addition to the tuition fees please see the additional course costs for 2020 entry.Further information
Find out more about our course fees and any financial support you may be entitled to:These fees are correct for the stated academic year only. Costs may increase each year during a student’s period of continued registration on course in line with inflation (subject to any maximum regulated tuition fee limit). Any adjustment for continuing students will be at or below the RPI-X forecast rate.
After completing this course, most of our students progress to a degree course at UCA.
View all of our undergraduate degree courses