Athlone Institute of Technology, Irlande.
This honours degree will enhance and develop your creativity, knowledge and skills in graphic, typographic and information design in order to prepare you for a successful and rewarding career in the area of visual communications. The primary focus of the programme is typography and the dissemination of information.
Situation analysis, problem-solving and decision-making skills are critical to success in the design industry and this degree will give you the ability to comprehend logical, systematic, conceptual and creative approaches to each of these areas in visual communications. You will also develop the capacity to think laterally so that the most appropriate solution(s) can be identified and implemented.
This degree will prepare you for high-level responsibilities within the visual communications industry and as such you will gain the ability to communicate in a clear, effective, self-confident manner through a range of media to a variety of audiences with highly diverse and specific requirements. You will be able to recognise the factors which contribute to effective teamwork and draw from that knowledge. Liaison with external bodies in years 3 and 4 of the degree will allow you become further aware of commercial realities, while retaining an individual approach to the work created.
Technology has revolutionised the design industry and you will acquire a high level of proficiency in the latest technology appropriate to visual communications. You will also develop a critical understanding of the social and historical contexts of art and design, and their influence on contemporary thinking and practice.
BA (Hons) in Design in Visual Communications
* Both Level 8 honours degrees in design are recognised by the Teaching Council as fulfilling the degree requirement for the purpose of teaching Art at post-primary level.
* Design students at AIT have a track record of winning awards in national and international competitions.
* Graduates enjoy excellent employment prospects in Ireland and overseas, and are employed in the film industry, advertising agencies, graphic design companies, publishing, printing, the arts, manufacturing companies, as well as in teaching roles.
* AIT is one of only two higher education institutions which retain the ladder route to achieve an honours degree, as well as offering on honours degree by the ab initio route.
* The institute offers an art and design portfolio preparation course on a part-time basis by night, through the Department of Adult and Continuing Education.
