Extended BA (Hons) Degree
Our four-year Extended BA (Hons) Degrees allow students who may be returning to education after a break or perhaps without formal qualifications, or students who want an exploratory year before committing to a discipline, to gain the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to succeed on an undergraduate course.
Our four-year Extended BA will provide you with a preparatory year that will support your creative development, through a broad range of art, design and media skills, as the basis for continued study in your chosen specialist degree. Learning through experimentation, exploration and discovery, successfully completing this year allows automatic progression to your chosen degree at Arts University Plymouth.
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Route: Extended BA (Year 1 of a 4-year degree)</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Availability: All 3-year undergraduate degrees are offered as a 4-year Extended BA (see course page for UCAS code)</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">UCAS code: See individual course page</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">UCAS points: 104–120</p></li></ul>
<p dir="ltr">The Extended BA experience offers an exploratory year, where you’ll develop a broad understanding of art, design, and media skills and approaches. The environment is dynamic and supportive, helping you discover your own particular passions and strengths within the creative arts, while building academic confidence, purpose and direction.</p>
<p dir="ltr">During this year, you will produce a body of work that will start to reveal your personal identity and approach to your chosen programme of study.<br /></p>
I started the course wanting to be an artist. I left the course as an artist. This has been the most amazing formative year of my creative journey so far, I wish I had done it sooner.
Joanne Nudd, Extended BA Textile Design graduate
<p dir="ltr">Our Extended Degree is intensive and challenging, taught through lectures, workshops and practical studio sessions, seminars and tutorials.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You will have the freedom to take creative risks, generate ideas, experiment and develop a breadth of approaches to problem-solving. You will experiment with materials, processes, methodologies and practices.<br /></p>
The year I spent on the Extended BA is one that I wish I could repeat again and again. To say that the year was transformative is a considerable understatement. I came onto the course feeling slightly imposter-like and I left the course an artist, excited for my future.
- Michele Azzopardi, Extended BA (Hons) Degree
<p dir="ltr">You’ll develop a range of critical skills relevant to degree-level study, while broadening your use of drawing, visual research, contextual studies, digital imaging and art and design methods.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This year primes you to become a confident, independent and creative artist, designer or maker, setting you on the path to excel in higher-level degree studies.<br /></p>
<p>The course attracts a diverse age range, from school leavers to creative and experienced mature individuals. Some are returning to education after a break, while others are looking for a career change.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Immerse yourself in experimental and intense learning experiences that open up new avenues of exploration and discovery. This is done through research, making practical work, lively discussion and self-reflection.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You will embark on a challenging, creative, academic and practical journey giving you the freedom to take risks, generate ideas and experiment with a variety of analogue and digital methods and materials.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A transformative and exploratory year that increases knowledge, curiosity and confidence and is fantastic preparation for the following three years of degree-level study.<br /></p>
“The Extended Degree is an excellent chance to experiment with everything the university has to offer. The support from staff and use of the facilities helped me to determine the direction in which I wanted to take my career, as well as giving me a broad knowledge of art across a wide range of practices.”
Taylor Harford, Extended BA (Hons) Commercial Photography for Fashion, Advertising & Editorial
Max Wilson, Extended BA
<p>It’s a foIt’s a four-year Extended BA that includes a preparatory year supporting your creative development through a broad range of art, design and media skills, as the basis for continued study in your chosen specialist degree.ur-year Extended BA that includes a preparatory year supporting your creative development through a broad range of art, design and media skills, as the basis for continued study in your chosen specialist degree.</p>
<p>It is for students who may be returning to education after a break or perhaps without formal qualifications, or for students who want an exploratory year before committing to a discipline.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes. All 3-year undergraduate degrees are offered as a 4-year Extended BA, and you should see the individual course page for the UCAS code.<br /></p>
<p>You’ll develop a broad understanding of art, design and media skills and approaches, and produce a body of work that starts to reveal your personal identity and approach to your chosen programme of study.</p>
<p>The Extended Degree is intensive and challenging, taught through lectures, workshops and practical studio sessions, seminars and tutorials.</p>
<p>You’ll develop critical skills relevant to degree-level study while broadening your use of drawing, visual research, contextual studies, digital imaging and art and design methods.</p>
<p>Yes. Successfully completing the preparatory year allows automatic progression to your chosen degree at Arts University Plymouth.</p>
Extended BA students exhibit their work in the annual end of year Summer Show.
Every single person you rub shoulders with is a creative, whether it's students, staff, housekeeping, front of house, everyone is here for one reason and one reason only, to make Arts University Plymouth a family community where you can truly be yourself, find your artistic voice, and become the artist that you had only dreamed about before. Arts University Plymouth genuinely makes dreams come true, it has for me!
Michele Azzopardi, Extended BA, BA (Hons) Craft & Material Practices student
<p>If you're applying to study an Extended BA with us, please visit UCAS and refer to the codes below. For more information or support with your application please contact <strong><a href="mailto:admissions@aup.ac.uk?subject=Ext%20BA%20enquiry">admissions@aup.ac.uk</a>.</strong> <br /></p>
COURSE | UCAS CODE |
| BA (Hons) Content Creation (Extended Degree) | 7PW5 |
BA (Hons) Costume Production (Extended Degree) | W451 |
BA (Hons) Craft & Material Practices (Extended Degree) | 69K5 |
BA (Hons) Fashion Design (Extended Degree) | W234 |
BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Marketing (Extended Degree) | 7BD5 |
BA (Hons) Film & Screen Arts (Extended Degree) | P311 |
BA (Hons) Fine Art (Extended Degree) | W103 |
BA (Hons) Game Arts & Animation (Extended Degree) | W618 |
BA (Hons) Graphic Design (Extended Degree) | W211 |
BA (Hons) Illustration (Extended Degree) | W221 |
BA (Hons) Interior Design & Styling (Extended Degree) | B68G |
BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking (Extended Degree) | W102 |
BA (Hons) Photography (Extended Degree) | W600 |
BA (Hons) Textile Design (Extended Degree) | J400 |
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