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BA (Hons) Communication Design and Strategy

  • Duration: 3–5 years full-time
  • Placement: Optional 1 year
  • Course code: W213 (UCAS)
  • Institution code: A66 (UCAS)

Overview

BA (Hons) Communication Design and Strategy students deliver powerful messages with maximum meaning. On this course, you’ll learn how to bring stories to life through innovative creative practice and strategic design thinking.

Font examples and development that look like household furniture, like chairs

Explore key facets of impactful communication design.

You'll understand the world of creative strategy, covering topics like marketing strategies, consumer behaviour, and business operations.

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Refine your abilities to examine complex issues.

You'll learn to scrutinise markets, recognise target audiences, and comprehend user behaviour to enhance your design process.

The Visual Communication stand at the London summer show (D&AD New Blood Exhibition) in June 2023 – there's a person standing in the stand looking at the art work on display

We're professionally accredited.

This course is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). In addition to your BA (Hons) degree, you'll also graduate with a CMI Level 5 qualification and Foundation Chartered Manager (fCMgr) status.

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Flat lay of a magazine piece with the headline 'What's going on – the sound of young America from the mind of Marvin Gaye'
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Mock-ups of ad placements for OCD sleep app. One ad is on a bus shelter, the other is an instagram ad shown in situ on a phone.
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Open book with words that read: it cracked
open page from a book by student Charlotte Boland, the page features images of a building set in a stylised layout with words like 'Bizarre', 'elaborate', 'strange' and 'crazy' written around it
work from the BA (Hons) Visual Communication course's summer show
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