BSc (HONS) ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN & TECHNOLOGYAccredited by: The Chartered Institute of

Architectural Technologists(CIAT)

UCAS code: W290 Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 280 points

Career potential: You can expect to follow a rewardingcareer as an architectural technologist in a range oforganisations. Most graduates find employment witharchitectural practices, although opportunities exist withbuilding contractors or any large corporate company thathas its own in-house design team. Careers can also bepursued in more specialist areas such as projectmanagement or architectural conservation.

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BA (HONS) CERAMICSUCAS code: W232Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points

Career potential: Graduates follow a wide range ofcareers related to ceramics and visual arts with manyestablishing their own practice, while others have gainedemployment working in education, community arts, arttherapy and the design industry. A significant number ofgraduates progress onto the school’s prestigious MACeramics course and can subsequently pursue Doctoralstudies in ceramic research.

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BA (HONS) FINE ARTUCAS code: W100Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points

Career potential: Our graduates go on to develop theircareers as independent artists, or to enter art-relatedoccupations. CSAD graduates are employed as teachersand lecturers or work in journalism. Other career optionsinclude curation, exhibition organisers and researchersfor publishing houses. Some of our graduates have goneon to work in television production, film or digital media.Graduates can undertake advanced study with usthrough an MA or an MFA.

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BA (HONS) GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONUCAS code: W210Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points

Career potential: Graphic Communication is an excitingdiscipline that brings together creative thinking skills witha very broad range of practical media. Graduates pursuehigh level design and research careers in print, digitalscreen-based media and moving image. We have stronglinks with influential design companies such as The BrandUnion and Elmwood London, as well as more locally withHoffi, Stills, Departures and BWA Design. The course is amember of D&AD University Network and also has linksto the Young Creative Network.

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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

YOUR PLACE AT CSAD

Meeting applicants is important to us.

We like to show you around, answer your questions andtalk to you about your work and aspirations.

No doubt you would like to look at our facilities and theLlandaff campus and find out more aboutaccommodation, transport in the city and finances.

This year we will be holding three BIG INTERVIEWEVENTS in our new building. The aims are to welcomecandidates applying for places, give you the informationyou need, and to conduct interviews. We will have a lotto show you and will be able to answer all the nitty grittyquestions about studying with us and living in Cardiff.Although, we will be conducting interviews at varioustimes throughout the year, our BIG INTERVIEW EVENTSwill be held on the following dates :

12TH AND 13TH DECEMBER 201329TH, 30TH, 31ST JANUARY 201419TH, 20TH, 21ST FEBRUARY 201421ST MARCH 2014Watch this space...

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

BA (HONS) ILLUSTRATIONUCAS code: W220Entry requirements: Minimum Tariff: 300 points

Career potential: Graduates may choose to followcareers in the illustration and design professions,including opportunities in the expanding world ofanimation, books and magazines, web and game design,conceptual design for film and television, advertising,scientific and product visualization.

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BA (HONS) ARTIST DESIGNER: MAKERUCAS code: W291Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points

Career potential: Graduates will become makers intheir own right, working either in a self-employedcapacity or as part of a specialist company. Their skills willsituate them for working in a variety of settings includingthe theatre, film and television. They will also go on to beteachers and lecturers. Graduates can undertakeadvanced study with us through an MA or an MFA.

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BA/BSc (HONS) PRODUCT DESIGNAccredited by: The Institute of Engineering

DesignersUCAS code: BA: W240 BSc: W2H1Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 280 points

Career potential: Graduates are capable of working in adesign role, management role, running their owncompany, involved in research, design education,marketing, sales, model making, commercialisation oftheir undergraduate design work and much more. Theyalso have the option of continuing their studies on theMSc Advanced Product Design course. Our graduateswork at Kinneir Dufort Design, Seymour Powell, AlloyTotal Product Design, Dyson, Sony, BBC, Panasonic,Puma, Ford, Aston Martin and Jaguar. Some have also setup their own businesses such as Tonic Studios, asbri, SpinDogs and PRO Medical Innovations Ltd.

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BA (HONS) TEXTILES UCAS code: W231Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 300 points

Career potential: This degree provides you with theskills to enter the textile, fashion or interiors industries.Graduates can progress to postgraduate study, work asdesigner/makers, create businesses based on traditionaland social entrepreneurship, work for non governmentorganisations or within a wide range of manufacturingand retail industries, marketing or cultural agencies.

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BA (HONS) PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE UCAS code: W640Entry requirements: Minimum tariff: 240 points

Career potential: Our photography students have hadmany successes in recent years; winning nationalcompetitions, being selected for national exhibitions andhaving work published in magazines and books. Manyare already working in a freelance capacity, taking oncommissions for a wide variety of client types.

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BECAUSE YOU WANT TO STUDY WITH LEADING ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

You need to be among people who can help you todevelop. Our entrance expectations (UCAS 300pts) andrigorous, but friendly, interview processes create anexpert community of students who are serious about theirstudies in art and design. If you are lucky enough to win aplace with us, you will join other imaginative, curious andastute student artists, makers and designers in ourstudios. Each studies a programme designed to put themat the centre of their experience, with opportunities totravel and explore ideas in real depth.

Aside from being highly qualified and expert lecturers,our staff are leading researchers and practicing artists anddesigners. Cardiff School of Art & Design is the home of anumber of international standard research departments.You will have the opportunity to work on many of theseresearch projects and even to publish your own researchbefore you graduate.

BECAUSE YOU WANT EXCELLENT ART & DESIGN STUDIOS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Professional artists and designers need excellent studiosand workshops and that’s what we provide. We havedesigned a proper place to do art and design. Come toone of our visit days and see what we mean when we sayour new building is an ideas and creative factory, withextensive workshops and resources. You can use almosteverything and anything we have available from digitalstitch and plaster moulding to our metal foundry or ourrapid prototyping workshops. We are also home to theonly MIT FabLab in a UK University. Come to one of ouropen days and see what we mean.

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PASSIONFOR ART & DESIGN

Your studies are built around three fundamental aspectsof what it is to be an Artist, Maker, or Designer: yourunique skills; your creative ideas; and your ability tocontextualise these in a professional situation.

A third of your studies are about developing core skillsand techniques and about identifying what makes yourpersonal creative identity valuable, unique and different.At least 50% of your studies will be delivered throughteaching. We believe it is important that you are taught instudios and workshops by academic and technicalexperts who will give you the individual attention youneed to build a sustainable career.

A third of your studies are about exploring how and whyand if the world came to be as it is and how it might be re-thought or re-imagined. At Cardiff School of Art & Designyou can choose to develop a way of thinking that suitsyou best, by choosing your history and theory seminargroup. Each of these is lead by brilliant historiansphilosophers and theoreticians.

The other third of your studies are about collaborationand exploration. You have the chance to explore outsideof the University, to form life-long collaborations or evenbusiness partnerships. We also offer opportunities towork with our research groups, to work with an employeror a voluntary organisation, to travel and study in Europe,India, Korea, Australia or America or even to build yourown business or creative professional practice.

WHY CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN?

CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE• Postgraduate Certificate in Professional &

Research Skills: Art & Design• Master of Fine Art (MFA)• Master of Design (MDes)• Master of Design (MDes) SADI• MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design)

• Fine Art• Communication• Illustration• Artist Designer Maker• Product Design• Textiles• Photographic Practice• Art & Science• Philosophy• Ecologies

• MA Ceramics• MSc Advanced Product Design• MSc Environmental Change and Practice

UNDERGRADUATE• HNC Building Technology and

Management (Ystrad Mynach)

• HND Architectural Design & Technology

• BSc (Hons) Architectural Design &Technology

• BA (Hons) Artist Designer: Maker• BA (Hons) Fine Art• BA (Hons) Ceramics• BA (Hons) Textiles• BA (Hons) Graphic Communication• BA (Hons) Illustration• BA (Hons) Product Design• BSc (Hons) Product Design• BA (Hons) Photographic Practice

(Bridgend)

RESEARCH DEGREES• MPhil• PhD• Professional Doctorate in Art• Professional Doctorate in Design• Professional Doctorate in Ecological

Building Practices

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CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, HOWARD GARDENS CAMPUS, CARDIFF, CF24 0SP

Tel: +44 (0)29 2041 6154 Fax: +44 (0)29 2041 6944 email: csad@cardiffmet.ac.uk

CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, LLANDAFF CAMPUS, WESTERN AVENUE, CARDIFF, CF5 2YB

Tel: +44 (0)29 2041 6070 Fax: +44 (0)29 2041 6640 email: csad@cardiffmet.ac.uk

FOUNDATION• Cardiff Diploma in Foundation Studies

(Art & Design) (Bridgend) - allied programme only

• Foundation Degree in Applied Art &Design (Bridgend)

• Foundation Degree in Ceramics (Cardiffand The Vale College)

• Foundation Degree in ContemporaryTextiles Practice (Cardiff and The Vale College)

• Foundation Degree in GraphicCommunication (Cardiff and The Vale College)

• Foundation Degree in SustainableBuilding Practice (Bridgend, Pembrokeshire, LlandrilloCollege, & Coleg Powys)

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BUILD A LONG AND REWARDING ART & DESIGN CAREER

You will study three modules a year and you will onlyhave a single formal assessment for each at the end ofeach year of study. You can keep developing your workand keep improving it throughout the year. This is whatprofessional artists and designers do, so it’s what we dotoo. Our University is rated in the top ten foremployability in the UK and it is no surprise. We workclosely with design companies and arts and makerorganisations and with the professional art and designcommunity. We have options for you to develop abusiness, to gain work experience or even to bring yourskills to a community project.You can choose to deliver adetailed business plan, rather than a researchdissertation, in your third year of study.

All of our Undergraduate programmes can be extendedto study up to Masters level as an MDes or MFA(Professional Masters), MA (Academic and CreativeMasters) or MPhil (Research Masters). All students whoget a 2.1 degree or above are guaranteed a place on oneof our Masters programmes.

BECAUSE YOU WANT A LIFE BEYOND ART & DESIGN TOO

We are in Cardiff, one of the best student cities in Europewith great value accommodation and enough malls, smallshops, arcades, restaurants, pubs and clubs to last alifetime. Cardiff is close enough to make a day trip toLondon possible and within reach of the Brecon Beaconmountains and the surf beaches of the Gower. Cardiff ishome to design and architecture companies and has thestudios of artists and crafts people. Our University hasexcellent sports facilities. In Cardiff School of Art &Design, we have a thriving social life of our own withsubject societies and clubs and of course, frequentexhibitions and evening seminars in the bar.