Graphic Design (Professional Placement Year) BA (Hons)

**Combine the key areas of graphic design and illustration practice in this broad-based Graphic Design course.**<br/>- Understand design conventions to challenge them, working across print, screen and interactive media.<br/><br/><br/>- Learn through carefully structured modules taught by supportive, experienced staff.<br/><br/><br/>- Experience working with clients and solve real production problems through Live Briefs.<br/><br/><br/>- This is a four-year course which includes a Professional Placement Year.<br/><br/><br/>Graphic Design at the Bath School of Design is a well-established course with an excellent reputation and employment record. You’ll learn through a comprehensive making-based experience, designed to equip you with the full range of skills you’ll need to thrive in the dynamic and interconnected creative industries.<br/><br/>You’ll develop works across print, screen and interactive media, and be taught by a team of full-time and visiting tutors, who are design specialists, illustrators or graphic design practitioners.<br/><br/>You’ll be supported through excellent workshop facilities in specialist areas such as letterpress, photography, screen printing, etching, lithography and digital design, and through our course-specific lecture series, delivered by highly-regarded national and international designers and illustrators.<br/><br/>**More about the Professional Placement Year**<br/>A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where you undertake a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between your second and final years of undergraduate study. You can engage in multiple placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) yourself, with support from the Careers team. The PPY Bursary can make work experience more accessible, with students undertaking a PPY able to receive between £500 and £1,500 to be used towards placement costs such as travel, food, workwear or accommodation.