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This support will enable World Land Trust to protect 600m2 of critically threatened tropical forest Design Ark – designbyark.co.uk Photography NUA staff, graduates and students Additional photography Hannah Hutchins, Denisa Ilie, Owen Richards, Joanna Millington, Joakim Boren, Jonathan Casey, Sara Davey, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Visit Norwich, University of East Anglia, David Drake, Kev Foster, Jeanette Bolton Martin Video content NUA staff, graduates and students Additional video Copper Crayon Proofreading Joanna Peios at WORDetc Print Page Bros @norwichuniarts fb.com/@NUAnews @norwichuniarts www.nua.ac.uk UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR FOR STUDENT RETENTION – The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 TOP 10 UK UNIVERSITY FOR TEACHING QUALITY 4 – The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018 TOP 6 UK UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVE SCENE – Which? Student Survey 2019 TOP 5 UK UNIVERSITY FOR UNIVERSITY FACILITIES – WhatUni Student Choice Awards 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR OUTSTANDING SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS AND HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR MOST INNOVATIVE TEACHER – Times Higher Education Awards 2019 NUA We are NUA 8 Welcome 10 Learning through making 14 Specialist facilities. Expert technicians 18 Student voices 24 Preparing for a career 26 Industry-leading graduates 28 A curious campus 32 Love where you live 38 CAMPUS The city of stories 42 Schools of thought – our courses 48 Bonus content Year 0 option 50 for the Curious Art Step 1: Download the – Fine Art 100 Blippar app from Play Store or iOS App Store Design – Architecture 68 – Illustration 128 6 – Interior Design 134 CITY Fashion Step 2: Open the Blippar – Fashion 80 app and scan the page – Fashion Communication and Promotion 86 whenever you see the ‘Curious’ symbol (above). – Fashion Marketing and Business 92 Make sure the pages – Textile Design 146 are as flat as possible Games Step 3: Interact with – Games Art and Design 106 and enjoy the exclusive – Games Development 112 extra NUA content, including videos, student Graphics work and soundbites. – Design for Publishing 74 – Graphic Communication 116 Mobile data charges may apply – Graphic Design 122 COURSES – User Experience Design 152 Media – Animation 56 – Animation and Visual Effects 62 – Film and Moving Image Production 96 – Photography 140 Performance – Acting 52 How to apply 156 WHAT Your next move is closer than you think 158 NEXT Lorna Kelley BA (Hons) Photography NUA WE ARE CAMPUS THE CURIOUS. THE MAKERS 8 OF CREATORS. CITY A CAMPUS LIKE NO OTHER. 175 YEARS OLD COURSES YET STILL PIONEERING. WHAT WE ARE NUA. NEXT NUA Welcome to NUA. CAMPUS Embarking on a creative At NUA, you’ll add journey takes courage and resilience and confidence conviction whatever your to your creative courage chosen field: a budding and conviction. film-maker or photographer, You’ll find kindred spirits fashion designer, games — new friends and developer, actor or animator. collaborators — who share As you’ve chosen to read your love of creating and 10 this prospectus, there’s making, and who will lend CITY every chance that you encouragement and belief already feel a passion for in moments of self-doubt. committing your ideas to I’ve heard it said that paper, canvas, or screen, NUA is big enough for any or delight in performing for ambition, but close enough an audience. There’s an a community for everyone insistent inner voice that to know your name. I’m urges you, encourages you, excited for your possibilities to bring what you imagine to and hope to meet you life; to show and to share. on your journey. COURSES Creativity is not an easy path, but the most rewarding Amma Asante MBE journeys never are. Chancellor Amma Asante is a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and director, whose work includes direction for films Belle, A United Kingdom and international TV series The Handmaid’s Tale. WHAT NEXT NUA A COMMUNITY OF CAMPUS 12 CITY COURSES CREATIVES Big enough to be dynamic, small enough to know your name. WHAT NEXT NUA Learning through CAMPUS making. 14 You will explore your ideas, collaborate with fellow students, CITY and develop your own creative approach. Our specialist and supportive creative community is a place where everyone is encouraged to imagine, design and make. Practical and project-based If you are looking for an Our courses are practical, opportunity to explore your project-based and run creative horizons, think and through studios, media labs practise sustainability, and take a and workshops where you bold first step towards a creative career, NUA is the place for you. will experiment with different COURSES techniques and test different You will be assessed by the formats. Rather than choose quality of work you produce on between modules, our curriculum the course, not by sitting exams. is carefully-constructed so each You will need to hit deadlines unit builds on what you have just like in the workplace – and learned in the last. Every term we expect you to be passionate your portfolio will grow in quality, about your creative field. complexity and professionalism. We want to see you build a distinctive portfolio of work that will set you apart from other graduates competing for jobs. WHAT NEXT NUA Artists. Designers. Sculptors. Stylists. CAMPUS And that’s just our teachers. 16 CITY Our staff share their knowledge and experience of working on commercial projects with brands or preparing their artistic endeavours for public exhibition. They are supported in our well-equipped workshops by an experienced team of technicians who are qualified practitioners COURSES and experts in the array of equipment and technologies available for students to use. You will also hear from visiting professionals from industry about the latest practice in the workplace. Many visiting speakers are acclaimed in their field – whether A-list photographers, to professionals who work on blockbuster Hollywood movies or hit video games, to WHAT creatives in London fashion NEXT houses or design agencies. NUA CAMPUS Specialist facilities. Expert 20 18 technicians. CITY Our dedicated studios and fully-equipped workshops have been designed to help you build specialist knowledge and flourish in your chosen discipline. Introductory sessions with expert technicians will give you the chance to develop essential skills, from traditional craft and contemporary digital design COURSES to print and production techniques. Our workshops are always a fertile ground for sharing ideas with students from other courses – a spark for creative collaboration across disciplines. WHAT NEXT NUA East GalleryNUA Clockwise from top: NUA East Gallery is the university’s Mutator VR city centre gallery space. exhibition Exhibitions through the year Orla Kiely: range from student, staff, and A Life in Pattern graduate work to collaborations Ideas FactoryNUA incubation with national and international centre, a creative partners such as the Jerwood community for Prize, the Hayward Gallery businesses and the Arts Council. The Big Book CAMPUS Crit; sessions Recent exhibitions include Pop for students and graduates Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi, to network sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, with industry the Turner Prize-nominee professionals for portfolio Cornelia Parker, designer Orla feedback Kiely, and photography by and advice surrealist Claude Cahun. East GalleryNUA is a valuable resource for students, as well as providing opportunities to 20 work as Gallery Assistants. CITY www.nua.ac.uk/thegallery Ideas FactoryNUA Ideas FactoryNUA is our incubation space for creative and digital start-ups. Its contemporary offices are leased to a number of businesses launched by NUA COURSES graduates, including production companies, design agencies, writers and architects. The building also hosts the university’s Digital UX Research Lab, as well as NUA’s creative agency, which provides opportunities for students to work on real-world commercial projects with local, national and international organisations. WHAT NEXT www.nua.ac.uk/ideasfactory NUA CAMPUS 22 CITY NUA undergraduate end of year show Exhibiting your work, and engaging with audiences, and collaborating COURSES with your peers is part of life at NUA. In your final year, there are a range of opportunities to exhibit or screen your work to a wider audience, both the public and industry professionals. NUA’s end of year shows across the campus exhibit the finest work by our final year students; major events like New Designers and Graduate Fashion Week, film and games festivals, offer the chance to win wider acclaim. WHAT Scan this page to NEXT view a selection of student work NUA CAMPUS “If you’re thinking about applying, don’t do what I did and think about STUDENT it for four or five years – do it.” CARL DURBAN, VOICES BA (HONS) FINE ART 24 “I came here because of the facilities. CITY They’re modern and up to date – and we’re always getting more.” LEONA HEUNG, BA (HONS) GRAPHIC DESIGN “Everyone here has skills that transcend really well into other people’s projects, so we’re able to help each other out and learn voices new skills from others as well.” TOM HARDWICK, COURSES BA (HONS) GRAPHIC DESIGN Do you want to know what life is really like at NUA? We asked a selection of students and graduates for their unfiltered take on how it feels to be an undergraduate in Norwich. Here’s their verdict. WHAT Scan this page to hear NEXT from our NUA students NUA 94% OF NUA GRADUATES ARE IN EMPLOYMENT OR FURTHER EDUCATION WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF GRADUATING1 CAMPUS From networking events Award-winning careers advice to live projects You will find an award-winning Networking events, industry approach to careers advice Preparing panels, and practical workshops at NUA – drawing on gaming will help you to develop techniques and Virtual Reality entrepreneurial and business skills.