Bachelor of Science (Hons) - User Experience Design
- 3 years
- Duration
- 16,950 GBP/year
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Farnham / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
With a BA (Hons) in User Experience Design from UCA, you can become an authority in this rapidly expanding sector by combining your creative practice with advanced technical knowledge.
Designing interactions between people and objects requires the blending of broad expertise with research approaches, or user experience. This covers apps, wearable technologies, websites, digital goods and services, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality.
Your comprehensive academic and theoretical knowledge of the value and potential of user experience design will be supported by this course. The core ideas and tenets of the field, including as user research, experience design, interaction design, visual design, and information architecture, will be the focus of your studies.
Along the process, you'll gain a diverse set of skills, design services and products both independently and collaboratively, create an industry-ready portfolio, and prepare for a career in a sector of business with expanding job prospects.
You can enroll in an Integrated International Foundation Year, which was created especially to give international students English language and creative skills before they start their first year of study.
You'll get experience through a professional placement—or a Professional Practice Year, if you select that pathway—and develop skills that are applicable to the workplace so that you can graduate prepared for the workforce.
Program structure
Year 1
Your first year focuses on the principles of graphic design practice with a variety of workshops, lectures and live briefs. Indicative content: introduction to UX design, user research, analysis techniques, structure and navigation.
- Launch and Opportunity weeks
- Design Concepts
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Typographic Studios 01
- Design Thinking
- Design Creativity & Innovation
- Proclamation
- ATOM Activities
Year 2
Your second year deepens your investigation into the creative, personal and business aspects of user experience design. Indicative content: interactions, design principles, design patterns, mobile UX, workflows, prototyping and wireframing.
- Launch and Opportunity weeks
- Multimodal Approaches to Design
- The Conscious Practitioner
- Typographic Studies 02
- Design for Screen
- Building an Identity
- ATOM Activities
Year 3
In your final year, you'll focus on your career aspirations by defining a research topic, presenting your findings in the form of a viva, then prototyping your concept with a view to taking the product to market.
- Launch and Opportunity weeks
- Industry-led competitions
- Contextual Research
- Final Major Project
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 16,950 GBP for international students
We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.
Requirements for applicants
If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.
In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.
For our Bachelor's courses, we usually require that you have:
- High school leaving certificate or equivalent.
- A transcript showing successful completion of one year of a Bachelor's degree from a recognised university with CGPA 3.8.
English Language requirements for BA/BSc courses:
- IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.0
- Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 80
- Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
- Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 169
- Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Merit, Reading Merit, Speaking Merit, Writing Merit, Total ISE III
- LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 33, Reading 33, Speaking 33, Writing 33, Total B2 Communicator High Pass
Portfolio requirements
For these course, you must perform an individual piece as an audition. This piece can be up to two minutes long and can be one of the following: a brief modern text (play or screenplay); a short piece of Shakespeare; or an original work you have composed.
About the university
The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.
Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.
We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.
So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.
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