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From Fine Art to Photography, and Drawing to Printmaking, we have a wealth of visual art focused degrees which are situated in fully equipped, purpose built studios run by practicing artists.

Fine Art, Drawing and Painting

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With space to create using both traditional and contemporary techniques and facilities, our Crafts courses are housed in our £8m Craft, Design and Fabrication workshops, including our Fab Lab, our Glass-blowing house, our open plan Ceramics space, our Metals workshop, and our Plaster room.

Crafts & Making

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Working with industry experts and world-renowned brands, our fashion, costume and textiles courses cover everything from designing and creating fabrics, to whole fashion collections or costumes for film and performance, through to styling, shooting and promoting brands. We create independently-minded thinkers and makers who are looking to influence change within the fashion industry.

Fashion & Textiles

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From studying photography as a contemporary art practice, to making films, soundscapes and animations, you will explore the craft and aesthetics of these subjects guided by industry professionals in fully equipped studios and workshops.

Photography & Film

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To produce meaningful design, whether it be an environment, product, service, or performance, requires a designer to balance and creatively reinvent the social interface between maker and end-user. Whilst good design shows how form solves problems or conveys complexity in beautiful ways, it simultaneously fosters a way of thinking about our world as a shared experience.

Visual Communication & Design

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Explore our state-of-the-art multimedia studio environment and learn skills across all aspects of this expansive technological sector, from using sound as a creative medium, to designing games and creating animations.

Games & Media

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Our January Start BA (Hons) degrees offer an accelerated year one, allowing students to study flexibly at home through our online distance learning programme for their first year. Students will finish their course in the Summer, and progress into their second year in-person at Arts University Plymouth in September.

January Starts & Distance Learning

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Not quite ready for a degree? Our Foundation Diploma and our Extended BA programme are two different options that give you the chance to spend a year exploring various creative practices, preparing you for entry into Undergraduate study.

Foundation & Extended Degrees

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Undergraduate

3D Design

Animation

Ceramics

Costume

Communication

Content Creation

Curation

Craft

Education

Technologies

Design

Digital Media

Drawing

Fashion

Film

Fine Art

Game Arts

Glass

Graphic Design

Illustration

Interior Design

Jewellery

Marketing

Media

Painting

Photography

Printmaking

Publishing

Production

Styling

Sound

Technical

Textiles

Extended BA (Hons) Degree

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BA (Hons) Illustration

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BA (Hons) Fine Art

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BA (Hons) Craft & Material Practices

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BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking

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BA (Hons) Illustration (Jan 2024 Start)

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Our Courses

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<title>Undergraduate | Arts University Plymouth</title>

Creativity doesn’t just happen in the studio, workshop or darkroom. It’s a way of life. A lot has changed here since we started out over 160 years ago, but this simple equation of making and living still shapes everything we do.

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Our postgraduate programmes invite you to explore and refine your creative practice by critically engaging with the cultural, technological and economic changes that are shaping our world.

Postgraduate

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Our specialist post-16 study programmes offer ambitious creatives a dedicated pre-degree campus to develop their unique perspective, meet like minded people and gain the sought-after skills necessary to progress onto degree-level study or industry.

Pre-Degree

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Short Courses and Masterclasses

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Arts University Plymouth’s Young Arts programme was established in 1988. Young Arts feature the university's renowned Saturday Arts Clubs and for over 30 years has worked to bridge the gap in arts provision for young people created by increasingly limited access to creative activity in schools.

Young Arts