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UCAS CODE: CO19

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

  • Location

    Wrexham

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    23-SEP-24

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary

Why choose this course?Our comics degree will help you develop both your own style and flair for creative sequential storytelling. The course covers the practical, professional, and artistic sides of working as a comic artist with an individual artistic voice, equipping you for a successful career in the creative industries.You will:- Learn how to create compelling images, work to professional standards, and understand how your work fits into the industry.- Be introduced to a broad range of creative skills, from the generation of ideas to their technical production through printmaking, bookbinding, 3D materials, life drawing, traditional and digital media, with an emphasis on drawing and the development of a unique personal style.- Be introduced to professional creative processes and encouraged to expand your abilities through workshops and practical projects.- Learn how to interpret a brief, identify, and solve problems, develop creative individuality, and produce a professional portfolio.- Gain personal, professional, and entrepreneurial skills including working as a freelance artist: from marketing and self-promotion to contracts, invoices and working with clients.- Be encouraged to work on live briefs and competitions.You can also choose to study this course as a foundation year Comics (with Foundation Year) (four years including foundation year) UCAS code: CO1FYKey course features:- You will be part of a vibrant and creative community of commercial artists including illustrators, animators and graphic designers.- You will be taught by a teaching team with a broad range of experience working professionally in the creative industries.- We encourage our students to self-publish and learn how to produce high-quality production prototypes to pitch to the publishing industry through the use of our in-house Bindery.- Be part of an end of year degree show exhibition - view the 2022 Degree Show e-magazine, Unjammed.- Our students have won awards such as the prestigious Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards award as well nominations for the Silver Reuben Awards. Students have also been awarded for illustration prizes and awards such as the Oxford University Press Illustration competition, the Macmillan Children’s Book competition, the Caldecott Society and D&AD awards.

Application deadline

31 January

Tuition fees

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11,750per year

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University information

Wrexham University

  • University League Table

    130th

  • Campus address

    Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Plas Coch, Mold Road, Wrexham, Wrexham, LL11 2AW, Wales

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