Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Urban Landscape Architecture

at Ravensbourne University London United Kingdom

This year zero course is a preparatory year as part of a four-year BA (Hons) Games Development course. Aimed at students who want more time before year one to develop their skills, this is an ideal entry-level course for aspiring game makers who wish to create imaginative games through a variety of mediums. An entertaining career in games design and computer gaming starts here. 

Why study this games development degree?

• Get prepared for progression to year one of BA (Hons) Games Development
• Gain a command of the essential, practical, intellectual and transferable skills needed to enter into the world of games development
• Develop hardware and software knowledge suitable for games development 
• Learn the broad cultural contexts of the creative industries
• Gain visual awareness and experience with a range of media 
• Enhance your technical ability related to games development

Year 0 in games development encourages creativity, imagination and new ways of making, thinking and documenting. 

The course focuses on giving students a solid understanding of games development, the creative process, and the technical knowledge to realise it. The course explores the contemporary gaming industry across a broad range of experiences – from the latest console blockbusters to virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

Year zero is an excellent entry point into our BA (Hons) Games Development course, which may suit you if:

• You feel you will benefit from developing your skillset prior to entering an undergraduate degree course
• You will struggle to fulfil the entry requirements

Students of our award-winning Graphic Design degree will develop a critical eye for design and a knowledge of different design approaches and creative problem solving techniques. You will develop both the vision and the resilience to succeed in the creative industries.

Why study this Graphic Design degree?

• Award winning and internationally recognised 
• Taught by staff who are current design professionals
• Innovative, forward-thinking and industry-focused
• Excellent employability rates and highly successful alumni 
• Great career prospects with graphic designers in high demand

This degree in Graphic Design allows you to work cross-media and explore the subject from a number of critical perspectives, challenging the different roles graphic designers can take. We value individualism and encourage concept-driven work, showing a clear understanding of design problems as well as the production of visual languages.

During this BA Hons Graphic Design degree in London, UK, you will explore novel ways of design thinking, including format, context, materials and medium. You will sharpen your creative skills and reimagine methods of communication through numerous visual platforms and environments, such as typography, editorial design, data visualisation and much more. 

With access to cutting-edge facilities, you’ll work with industry practitioners to explore creative design thinking across a range of briefs. In dedicated studio spaces, you will study a blend of practice and theory-based learning strategies, including lectures, workshops, tutorials and live projects. Senior lecturers and visiting professionals will offer invaluable industry insight, as well as support your future career choices. 

Our MDes Service Design postgraduate course will enable you to design new services at the point where they intersect with the needs and experiences of end users, consumers and stakeholders. Translate how services can interact cohesively with emerging technology and propel your career in the creative industries.

Why study this MDes Service Design master's degree?

• Learn practice-based insights to become a service design expert
• Boost employability in a growing sector
• Design and test powerful service prototypes
• Tap into exceptional industry connections
• Develop and facilitate immersive workshops
• Map user experiences through storyworlds   
• Explore how new technology platforms can boost revenue streams
• Boost business-to-business, social and community interaction 
• Study in a stunning new building in London's Design District
• Be a legacy-maker for The Institute of Creativity and Technology

Inspire change that truly matters

In our exciting Master of Design (MDes) Service Design course in London, you will?design new services at the point where they interface with the needs and experiences of end users, consumers and stakeholders.? 

Service designers are in increasing demand to?translate?how services can interact with innovation ecosystems, emerging technology, new business-to-business and organisational communications solutions.? 

Do you wish?to become a leading specialist in big bold ideas in the form of services? Build transformative capabilities and propel your career as a service designer in the creative economy and beyond?? This master's in Service Design could be a personal game-changer. 

This fashion degree in London, UK, has a glowing international reputation for creating highly-employable graduates with distinctive design identities. One of the top student-accredited fashion design courses in the country, with 93% student satisfaction*, you will graduate with an industry-ready fashion toolkit.

Why study this photography degree course?

• Exceptional academic team, including couture designers, Saville Row cutters and experienced fashion brand manager
• Access the latest camera equipment and video editing software
• Establish and nurture your design signature and identity from the get go
• Unrivalled industry connections will make you industry ready
• Get involved in live project briefs from the outset
• Opportunities for internships in the world’s fashion capitals
• Work with and be inspired by some of fashion's greatest labels
• Collaborative working opportunities across the institution
• Option to take the digital technology for fashion pathway in second year
• Access The Institute for Creativity and Technology in London’s design district

Discover your fashion design identity

This flagship fashion course in London, UK, offers budding fashion designers the opportunity to study both traditional and innovative practices in fashion design, development, pattern cutting, sampling and digital design. You will explore how computer-aided design and emerging digital technologies are helping to innovate the fashion creation process – from idea through to production.

You’ll develop an enviable skillset across the fashion design spectrum. This degree in fashion is geared towards developing fashion designers with industry-ready skills who have a firm grasp of research and concept development methodologies. You’ll add an academic backbone to your natural design flair, discover and develop your distinctive creative identity, and hone the techniques and knowledge you’ll need to stand out from the crowd.

You’ll have constant industry engagement, be involved in live project briefs, and receive help to secure an accredited work placement for one term of the course. Students typically secure work placements in London, Antwerp, Paris, Milan and New York. They’ve been given a taste of life at some of the world’s most prestigious fashion brands, including Givenchy, Viktor & Rolf, AF Vandevorst, Haider Ackermann and Calvin Klein. 

These opportunities will broaden your horizons in fashion and beyond

During the fashion design degree, you will also work on industry-led design briefs and competitions, including VF Corporation, which encompass Timberland, Wrangler, Lee and North Face and Kingpins denim. 

Excuse the name drops, but the name on the label is pretty important in this business, and why shouldn’t you learn from – and aspire to be – the best? 

When you study the BA Hons Fashion degree, you will work collaboratively across disciplines to learn how the latest 3D and design technology is helping to transform processes and innovate fashion creation. You will consider your design signature from the get go. Our course leaders will oversee your growth as a fashion designer and be ably supported by other staff and visiting professionals.

On this fashion marketing degree in London, UK, you will learn to build, promote and maintain dynamic fashion brands. With strong industry links and cutting-edge facilities, you will tell unique fashion brand stories through different mediums to a range of audiences. It’s all about standing out from the crowd.

Why study this fashion promotion degree?

• Multi-award-winning fashion promotion and communication course
• Build up a diverse knowledge base in an industry-facing course 
• Expert teaching with direct contact to industry professionals
• Gain an accredited three-month work placement unit at fashion giants
• Gain access to a host of industry-leading guest speakers 
• A nurturing environment with high recruitment rates into industry
• Learn to effectively communicate and market fashion brands
• Develop your unique voice and add theory to natural creativity
• Recent work placements include Urban Outfitters, Ralph Lauren and Vogue

Become a fashion brand storyteller

The BA Hons Fashion Promotion degree can be tailored to your interests. You will explore fashion media production, fashion marketing and visual communication, including digital imaging and new media. You will learn the skills and techniques needed to effectively communicate and market fashion brands in this dynamic, fast-moving and exciting sector.

Fashion Promotion includes a fully-accredited work placement where you can showcase your learning in a professional environment. Supported by the Ravensbourne Employability Team, recent work placements include industry giants Urban Outfitters, Jimmy Choo, Stella McCartney, Vogue, Wonderland Magazine, Ralph Lauren, Ralph & Russo, Paul Smith, LK Bennett, Karen Millen, Harvey Nichols, Fashion Scout, Exposure, PR, All Saints and Black Diamond Films.

Delivered through a combination of practice and theory-based learning, you will develop your own unique voice across a number of channels, including: film, magazines, fashion photography, website design, journalism, brand communication and social media. Competitions and live briefs will provide real work scenarios to help you develop and integrate your skillset, whilst building key industry contacts.

Skilled digital photographers are in demand across various industries to capture a moment in time and bring messages and products to life. With access to gold-standard equipment, this photography degree works with your creative talent, exploring lighting and art direction to create evocative and powerful images.

Why study this photography degree course?

• Accredited by the Association of Photographers (AOP) and the Royal Photographic Society (RPS)
• Nurture a diverse skillset across a range of digital photography sub-disciplines
• Industry-focused and exception industry connections 
• Placement opportunities within prestigious organisations
• Mix of practice and theory-based learning modules
• Supported by expert teaching staff and visiting professionals

Nothing tells a story like a powerful image. Digital photography is one of the most dynamic mediums within the creative industries; it is a dominant force in shaping and defining contemporary society. 

This digital photography course in London, UK, is the destination for budding contemporary photographers who wish to push the boundaries of a powerful medium. Accredited by the Association of Photographers (AOP) and the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), you will learn to decipher creative briefs, develop your own photographic style and prepare collections for exhibitions and competitions.

This industry-focused photography degree provides an education in the broader areas of digital photographic practice and will instil an understanding of the rapidly changing principles and methods that underpin new and emerging creative commercial practice.

You will use practical skills, knowledge and critical application of digital photography, helping you to explore the creative potential of your camera. Through a mix of practice and theory-based learning, you will be taught to think like a photographer and explore how images are created, shared, distributed and sold. 

This future-focused BA Hons photography degree course from Ravensbourne University London is designed to combine practical skills with a knowledge of the critical application of digital photography. You will explore the creative potential of the camera and the theories and movements that drive change. 

You will be encouraged to develop your own distinctive portfolio to showcase a high level of technical skill, whilst understanding the theory of photography, as well as seek opportunities for placements at top London agencies and photographers. You will also be encouraged to work collaboratively with other students across the college and different disciplines.

Through this architecture degree course, you will take inspiration from art, philosophy and technology to explore the spaces and places we inhabit. With access to gold-standard facilities and the highest-calibre teaching, you will develop your own creative vision by exploring the role architecture plays in shaping our society.

Why study this architecture degree?

• Develop your own creative vision and refine your design skills
• Outstanding teaching from senior industry experts
• Tap into direct contacts to the architecture industry
• Cutting-edge facilities in an award-winning building
• Build a sophisticated, industry-quality portfolio
• Unparalleled opportunities in a design specialist institution
• Excellent post-graduation employment rate
• Contemporary, challenging and future-facing creative projects
• Develop a broad understanding of practical and theoretical themes

This Social Innovation master of design (MDes) course will empower you to create new services, organisational models and communications platforms that?better serve society.?

Why study an MDes Social Innovation master's degree?

• Address complex global issues like inequality, social cohesion and climate change 
• Develop a wealth of fundamental and transferable skills
• Hone leadership skills by?prototyping and piloting theories of change 
• Co-create and facilitate social action programmes
• Co-design new organisational models with powerful social missions 
• Create highly participatory services?using new tech and organisational models 
• Think more laterally and spot new patterns of social change
• Tap into exceptional industry connections
• Study in a stunning new building in London's Design District
• Be a legacy-maker for The Institute of Creativity and Technology

In our powerful new Social Innovation course in London, you will gain the skills and insights needed to make a true impact to bring about social and environmental change through partnership development with businesses, community groups and public bodies.? 

You will learn to think more laterally and spot new patterns of social change in order to engage with the most serious social and environmental issues of our time – problems which need lateral ‘joined up’ solutions.

Once you’ve studied our Social?Innovation master's course, which you can study full time for one year or part time for two, you’ll understand your own unique value and apply your skills to transform the way in which services, organisations and businesses are configured to meet local and global challenges.?

Why study this digital marketing degree?

• Flexible routes to suit your passion
• State-of-the-art Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) facilities
• Create engaging, interactive, multi-channel digital marketing campaigns
• Collaborate with fellow students from media and fashion
• Gain support setting up your own business and progressing ideas
• Set yourself up for agency, in-house or self-employment
• Design, deliver and evaluate strategies and campaigns from end to end
• Tap into exceptional industry connections

Our MDes Service Design postgraduate course will enable you to design new services at the point where they intersect with the needs and experiences of end users, consumers and stakeholders. Translate how services can interact cohesively with emerging technology and propel your career in the creative industries.

Why study this MDes Service?Design master's degree?

• Learn practice-based insights to become a service design expert
• Boost employability in a growing sector
• Design and test powerful service prototypes
• Tap into exceptional industry connections
• Develop and facilitate immersive workshops
• Map user experiences through storyworlds   
• Explore how new technology platforms can boost revenue streams
• Boost business-to-business, social and community interaction 
• Study in a stunning new building in London's Design District
• Be a legacy-maker for The Institute of Creativity and Technology

Inspire change that truly matters

In our exciting Master of Design (MDes) Service Design course in London, you will?design new services at the point where they interface with the needs and experiences of end users, consumers and stakeholders.? 

Service designers are in increasing demand to?translate?how services can interact with innovation ecosystems, emerging technology, new business-to-business and organisational communications solutions.? 

Do you wish?to become a leading specialist in big bold ideas in the form of services? Build transformative capabilities and propel your career as a service designer in the creative economy and beyond?? This master's in Service Design could be a personal game-changer.