Art and Design with Integrated Foundation Year at Bath Spa University

Explore art and design through an integrated Foundation year before you progress onto your chosen BA (Hons) degree.

• Evolve. Build your confidence, skills and knowledge in preparation for your undergraduate course.
• Develop. Challenge perceptions, make, explore and investigate new territory through active projects.
• Realise. Pursue your undergraduate specialism and benefit from scholarships at each level of your BA studies.

Undergraduate degrees at Bath School of Art and Design are available as three-year or four-year programmes. Four-year degrees include either an integrated Foundation year or a professional placement year.

We want to ensure that you reach your full potential. That's why we've devised an intensive and experimental Foundation course that develops your art and design abilities in relation to contemporary practice, and introduces you to our exceptional facilities and staff.

You'll enhance your drawing skills, and explore the many materials and processes encountered in art and design practice. As the year progresses, you'll begin to specialise in your chosen discipline, acquiring advanced skills and knowledge in preparation for continued study.

Develop your ideas, skills and confidence during this Foundation course, in readiness for your chosen degree course.

Begin with a fast-paced introduction to experimentation and play as forms of investigation through active drawing, observation, making and recording.

You'll continue your enquiries into materials, processes and concepts, and select media, materials and technologies to create personal solutions in response to course briefs.

Finally, you'll specialise in your chosen discipline. You'll prepare and define objectives for a major personal project, assess your own work in relation to that of others, visually investigate and improve your preliminary ideas, and successfully
oversee your major personal project from beginning to end.