Illustration, BA (Hons), with industry placement

Transform your passion for art and creativity into a rewarding career in illustration through this professionally designed course, led by experienced illustrators, artists, and designers. It adopts an interdisciplinary, student-focused approach to nurture your personal drawing and storytelling interests, while expanding the limits of illustration. You'll engage in traditional and digital workshops to build transferable skills, develop a tailored portfolio for diverse career paths, and gain essential business and marketing knowledge to prepare for industry success.Key benefits include integrated professional practice from the outset, training in industry-standard software, and opportunities to work on real-world briefs in state-of-the-art facilities. The curriculum features a common first year for broad exposure, followed by modules in areas like narrative illustration and professional presentation, culminating in a placement year and final-year specialisms. Assessment primarily involves coursework, such as projects and presentations, to ensure authentic skill development.

This course has a common first year. The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn. If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements *Year One Modules*

• Inspiration

• Process

• Making

• Play

• Narrative

• Audiences

*Year Two* In year two you will continue to develop the skills and knowledge you’ve learnt. We do this by embedding the following four principles into the curriculum and developing your: Technical skills – digital fluency, backed with the right academic knowledge Study skills – to be an adaptive, independent and proactive learner Professional skills – to have the behaviour and abilities to succeed in your career Global awareness – the beliefs and abilities to be a resilient, confident and motivated global citizen In year two, you will develop more advanced knowledge and skills to do with: materials and style, contextual illustration, and narrative illustration, amongst others. *Modules* *Social Engaged Illustration *Materials and Style *Illustration Context *Illustration Play *Narrative Illustration *Professional Presentation *Placement Year* There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement can often be beneficial. Work placements* usually occur between your second and final year of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future. If you choose to do a work placement year, you will pay a reduced tuition fee* of £1250. For more information, please go to the fees and funding section. During this time you will receive guidance from your employer or partner institution, along with your assigned academic mentor who will ensure you have the support you need to complete your placement. For more information please go to the fees and funding section on our website. *Final Year* Your final year aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from year one and two. *Modules* *Entrepreneurial Illustrators *Illustration Specialism *Self-Promotion *Online Presence *Professional Portfolio We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content. For full module and all other course detail please check the course page on the Coventry University website.