Study Abroad and Exchange : Study abroad at AUB

Explore architecture through making, investigating and designing within the creative environment of an arts university. Develop your understanding of how buildings respond to people, place, materials and environmental challenges.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• On the Edge (Survey 2) – 40 UK credits
• Life Plus (Project 2) – 40 UK credits
• Sensorium (Realisation 2) – 40 UK credits

Level 5 explores the theme of “edges”, from suburbia and countryside to commercial and industrial landscapes, and asks you to speculate on alternative futures. You'll survey and research place before developing a hybrid architectural project, considering experience, structure, materials, environmental systems and sustainable design principles.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Discover how costume brings characters and stories to life across performance and screen. Develop advanced creative, technical and professional skills in an environment that connects costume making, interpretation and supervision with live production practice.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Historical Costume – 40 UK credits
• Critical Contexts – 20 UK credits
• Tailoring – 40 UK credits
• Experimental Costume – 20 UK credits

At Level 5, you'll develop advanced skills in areas including historical pattern cutting, construction, fitting, surface decoration and tailoring. Experimental Costume then allows you to begin focusing on your preferred professional direction, whether developing your practice as a costume maker or gaining experience of costume supervision and live production.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Develop your individual design identity within a fashion course that combines creative experimentation, craftsmanship, digital innovation and industry practice. Explore new approaches to fashion while considering the changing social, ethical and environmental contexts of the industry.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Fashion Engineering – 40 UK credits
• 3D Innovation and Image – 40 UK credits
• Industry Practice – 40 UK credits

Level 5 is centred on innovation and individual design identity. You'll develop more advanced design and technical manufacturing skills, explore creative cutting and new approaches to making and presentation, and build awareness of markets and consumers. Industry Practice can include either work experience or participation in an AUB live project with a brand or design company.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Immerse yourself in the collaborative world of filmmaking at Bournemouth Film School. Develop your specialist creative and technical practice while working as part of the teams that bring film productions from concept to screen.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Specialist Practice – 40 UK credits
• Contextual and Theoretical Studies – 20 UK credits
• Production in Practice – 40 UK credits
• Professional Development – 20 UK credits

At Level 5, you'll deepen your specialist filmmaking skills while developing the teamwork that is fundamental to film production. You'll enhance your practical and critical abilities, reflect on your own creative practice and develop greater understanding of professional production processes. Specialist skills training is also embedded within the curriculum.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Develop your individual artistic practice within AUB's vibrant community of artists, makers and thinkers. Experiment with materials, processes and ideas while developing your work within a supportive studio culture.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Studio Practice: Development in Action – 40 UK credits
• Studio Practice: Making Public – 40 UK credits
• Studio Practice: Critical Reflection 1 – 40 UK credits

At Level 5, you'll work within one of three studio zones – painting, sculpture, or media and performance – while retaining the freedom to move between areas as your practice evolves. You'll test materials and ideas, participate in critiques across disciplines and have the opportunity to take your work into a professional public context through a substantial off-campus exhibition project.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Create, experiment and explore the possibilities of contemporary games. Develop your creative and technical practice while considering how games can engage with subjects including identity, ethics, culture and social change.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Gender/Identity/Values – 40 UK credits
• Launchpad – 40 UK credits
• Self-Initiated Project – 40 UK credits

At Level 5, you'll consolidate your skills, work collaboratively in different games-industry roles and identify your own creative strengths. You'll explore how gender, identity and values can influence game design, while taking on creative challenges that can include competition briefs, developing a self-initiated project and exploring how to launch a games business.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Bring ideas to life through experimentation, critical thinking and collaborative design practice. Study within a studio culture that encourages you to explore how graphic design can communicate, challenge and respond to the world around us.

Typical Level 5 study includes:

• Visual Systems – 40 UK credits
• Narrative, Sequence and Interaction – 40 UK credits
• Defining and Refining Themes and Issues – 20 UK credits
• Innovate – 20 UK credits

At Level 5, you'll investigate graphic design from different perspectives: exploring systematic and typographic thinking through visual systems, storytelling and digital media through narrative, sequence and interaction, and user-centred approaches through Innovate. You'll also develop your critical interests and make connections with professional practice and industry.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Experiment, explore and develop your individual illustration practice within AUB's dynamic studio environment. Discover an expansive approach to image-making while considering how illustration communicates across different audiences, media and contexts.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Interpretation of Text – 40 UK credits
• Narrative – 40 UK credits
• Convergence/Divergence – 40 UK credits

At Level 5, the emphasis moves towards experimentation, exploration and increasingly independent practice. You'll expand your visual language, explore new and emerging forms of illustration and consider your work in relation to audience, media and professional practice. Collaborative and cross-course opportunities are also embedded within the year.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Challenge your understanding of what an interior can be through increasingly complex and ambitious design projects. Explore how people experience spaces while considering materials, technology, atmosphere, identity and contemporary ways of living.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Place Production – 40 UK credits
• Contemporary Environments – 40 UK credits
• Plus one of the following:
  • Collaborative Practice – 40 UK credits
  • Learning in the Workplace – 40 UK credits*

At Level 5, you'll investigate new methods of visualising and realising interior spaces and move from designing for the personal towards wider ideas of community, scale and spatial complexity. You'll explore concepts including narrative, identity, workplace and domesticity while developing your understanding of materials, finishes and detailed design.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Develop advanced creative and technical skills across makeup, hair, prosthetics and character transformation while working within AUB's collaborative production environment. Explore professional practice across film, performance and other creative industries.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Dramatic Contexts – 40 UK credits
• Professional Practice and Productions – 40 UK credits
• Make-up Exploration – 40 UK credits

At Level 5, you'll develop your knowledge of prosthetics and special makeup effects alongside professional and collaborative practice. You'll encounter digital technologies including facial scanning, 3D printing and ZBrush, explore specialist makeup contexts and have opportunities to assist on Bournemouth Film School productions and other collaborative projects.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer

Develop an individual photographic practice while exploring the expanding possibilities of contemporary image-making. Combine creative experimentation with critical thinking, technical development and an understanding of where your work sits within contemporary visual culture.

Level 5 (Year 2) study includes:

• Realism and Representation – 20 UK credits
• Image and the Page – 20 UK credits
• Research Project – 20 UK credits
• Developing Practice – 40 UK credits
• Professional Enquiry – 20 UK credits

At Level 5, you'll engage with increasingly complex ideas through both creative and theoretical work while beginning to define your own individual practice. Professional studies help you consider the audiences and contexts for your photographic work as you develop towards increasingly independent practice.

• Study level: Typically Level 5 (Year 2), subject to portfolio review and confirmation by the course team
• Study Abroad entry: September and January entry available across the Study Abroad programme; exact course and unit availability to be confirmed
• Portfolio: Required as part of the current Study Abroad application process
• Academic credit: Your final study plan and credit load will be confirmed as part of your Study Abroad offer