Guide to qualifications
We offer BA Honours degree, MA post graduate degree, foundation degree and short courses.
Foundation degrees
Foundation Degrees (Fd) are higher education qualifications designed to meet the needs of the modern workplace. Combining university study with work-based learning and practical work experience, they are equivalent to the first two years of an honours degree or a Higher National Diploma (HND). Students completing foundation degrees can progress on to an honours degree programme.
BA Honours degrees
The BA Honours degree is the internationally-recognised gold standard of university education. Normally consisting of three years' full-time study, this is the qualification to aim for if you wish to undertake further specialist training for the professions and the higher levels of business and commerce.
Professional Development by Work Related Learning
This is an undergraduate degree in which half of the learning is from modules which relate to your experiences from work and half from any other degree that we offer. It's designed for people who have work or occupational experience, and doesn't necessarily require traditional A-level or equivalent entry qualifications. It has the advantage of enabling you to study part-time while working and to gain a degree in stages — a Certificate in Higher Education in two years, a Diploma in Higher Education in a further and a BA or BSc Degree in a total of four and a half years.
Post Graduate degrees
Our MA in Community Arts offers post-graduate study for creative people working in any sphere of the arts who want to explore the theory and practice of community arts work, either with a view to developing their own practice or to bringing about a career change. Its key features include part-time over two years, with varied and highly flexible modes of study. It includes a major research project which may be based firmly in your own current practice, and you can use the vibrant creative activity around the Creative Quarter to use as case study material, or exploit the excellent links we have with working creatives in the locality. You could take advantage of our close relationships with a major, internationally-recognised regeneration project, or explore the extensive opportunities to explore new working environments (in prisons, health care centres, youth work, voluntary sector. Whatever you choose, the course is firmly based in proven research practice, most notably with the ground-breaking Sidney de Haan Research Centre housed in UCF.