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Location | Fees |
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England | £9,535 per year |
Scotland | £9,535 per year |
Wales | £9,535 per year |
Northern Ireland | £9,535 per year |
Channel Islands | £11,750 per year |
Republic of Ireland | £9,535 per year |
EU | £11,750 per year |
International | £11,750 per year |
UCAS code: W201
Here's what Wrexham University says about its Applied Art course.
Why Choose This Course: Unleash your creativity with our Applied Art degree where you will focus on the high-quality craft skills needed to launch your professional artistic career. We will help you develop your material and design expertise and versatility through ceramics, metal, jewellery and mixed media.
You will:
Learn the art of high-quality making, originality and how to create personal responses to materials and processes.
Not only take your creativity and innovation to the next level, but also develop entrepreneurial skills to ensure you are industry ready.
Be able to combine your conceptual and technical skills in applied arts with the professional skills needed to be a successful maker.
Develop interpersonal skills through collaborative projects and teamwork, further preparing you for your career after your degree.
Key Course Features: -Excellent gallery and commercial links, with the focus on craft skills to enable you to become exceptional makers. -In addition to developing your creative skills, you will learn business skills in areas such as pricing, publicity and marketing; we are consistently praised by external examiners for how well prepared our students are for professional life. -You will be taught by a team of research-active practitioners who exhibit their own work both nationally and internationally. -Work on live projects, exhibitions, competitions and commissions for public and private clients, giving you confidence to develop your portfolio and your future career. -Showcase your work in an end of year degree show exhibition - Take a look at the Quintesse Degree Show 2024
Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Department
School of the Creative Arts
Location
Wrexham (Main Campus) | Wrexham
Duration
3 Years
Study mode
Full-time
Subjects
• Crafts
Start date
September 22, 2025
Application deadline
January 29, 2025
What you will study YEAR 1 (LEVEL 4) Year one introduces you to the breadth of materials and techniques within the Applied Arts, where you have the opportunity to work across all the material areas, experimenting with ceramics, metal and mixed media.
MODULES Contexts 1: Gain a contextual understanding of?your?subject area through an introduction to critical thinking, analysis and a structured process of inquiry. Visual Communication: Introduction to fundamental theories of visual communication. Material Introduction: Introduction to materials and principles fundamental to 3D makers; health and safety, documenting demonstrations, and recording processes and artist’s practice. Material Experimentation: Process driven method of creating work, through mould-making and casting in various materials, including ceramics and metal. Material Techniques: Focus is on a specific applied art technique, which advances making skills and builds a professional body of work. Introduction to Exhibiting: Getting out of the workshop - investigate principles of communicating your work through study trips and exhibition analysis. Culminating in participation of an end-of-year level 4 group show.
YEAR 2 (LEVEL 5) Year two expands your making skills within your main material choice, developing a depth of knowledge and understanding about materials and craft skills and allowing you to advance your own creative style. The key professional skills of understanding market, publicity and costings are also developed through practical projects.
MODULES Contexts 2: Builds on and expands level 4’s Context 1 module to broaden your knowledge and foster critical thinking essential for interpreting the complexities of contemporary art contexts. Research and Inspiration: Take personal research through to design proposals, maquettes and material tests suitable for communicating with a client. Technical Development: Progress initial designs through to finished object at a professional standard. Identity: Develop artistic identity through personal projects in your specialist material area, informed by exploration of open calls for exhibition, design projects and commissions. Creative Futures - Making a Living: Develop awareness of career opportunities and professional lives of artists and designers. Explore subject-specific market and marketing methods, record communication with industry bodies and collate costings.
YEAR 3 (LEVEL 6) Year three allows you to realise your ideas in the direction of your choice, with students developing their own individual themes to produce collections, demonstrating high-quality making skills and innovative design solutions.
MODULES Research Project: You will undertake a practice-based research project. This approach enables you to locate and establish a connection between your academic and reflective writing within your creative output as an applied artist. Professional Project: Design and create a substantial, self-initiated body of studio work to a professional standard for exhibition. The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the programme that will take the form of either core or option modules. Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal academic framework review, so may be subject to change.
Teaching & Assessment Assessment is predominantly through practical and design work such as maquettes, sketchbooks, samples, and finished objects. Work is presented to tutors, and verbal feedback is given instantly, followed by more expansive written feedback.
You'll be assessed for each module. Formative assessments are used to monitor progress and can take place at any time. These consist of a band grading, plus evaluative comments and a feedback tutorial if appropriate. Grading isn't finalised until the end of the year, when work is reviewed and moderated by an external examiner.
Contact time is 14 hours per week for Level 4, 12 hours per week for Level 5, and 10 hours per week for Level 6. The workshop facilities are open and staffed 5 days a week and students have constant access to the workshops.
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The NSS is an annual survey where final-year students are asked to rate different aspects of their course and university experience.
Here you can see ratings from Wrexham University students who took the Applied Art course - or another course in the same subject area.
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Teaching on my course
81%
low
How often does your course challenge you to achieve your best work?
88%
med
How good are teaching staff at explaining things?
80%
low
How often do teaching staff make the subject engaging?
80%
low
How often is the course intellectually stimulating?
78%
med
Learning opportunities
75%
low
To what extent have you had the chance to bring together information and ideas from different topics?
84%
med
How well does your course introduce subjects and skills in a way that builds on what you have already learned?
75%
low
How well has your course developed your knowledge and skills that you think you will need for your future?
56%
low
To what extent have you had the chance to explore ideas and concepts in depth?
92%
high
To what extent does your course have the right balance of directed and independent study?
67%
low
Assessment and feedback
84%
med
How well have assessments allowed you to demonstrate what you have learned?
88%
med
How fair has the marking and assessment been on your course?
92%
high
How often does feedback help you to improve your work?
76%
med
How often have you received assessment feedback on time?
83%
med
How clear were the marking criteria used to assess your work?
84%
med
Academic support
72%
low
How easy was it to contact teaching staff when you needed to?
64%
low
How well have teaching staff supported your learning?
80%
low
Organisation and management
68%
med
How well were any changes to teaching on your course communicated?
76%
med
How well organised is your course?
60%
low
Learning resources
61%
low
How well have the IT resources and facilities supported your learning?
60%
low
How well have the library resources (e.g., books, online services and learning spaces) supported your learning?
68%
low
How easy is it to access subject specific resources (e.g., equipment, facilities, software) when you need them?
60%
low
Student voice
73%
med
How clear is it that students' feedback on the course is acted on?
56%
low
To what extent do you get the right opportunities to give feedback on your course?
84%
med
To what extent are students' opinions about the course valued by staff?
79%
med
How well does the students' union (association or guild) represent students' academic interests?
80%
high
Other NSS questions
Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of the course.
64%
low
How well communicated was information about your university/college's mental wellbeing support services?
83%
med
See who's studying at Wrexham University. These students are taking Applied Art or another course from the same subject area.
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Subject | Grade | |||||
Art and Design | A | |||||
Textiles | B | |||||
English Literature | B | |||||
Fine Art | A | |||||
Psychology | C |
Facts and figures about Wrexham University graduates who took Applied Art - or another course in the same subject area.
Graduate statistics
15%
Say it fits with future plans
40%
Are utilising studies
Graduate statistics percentages are determined 15 months after a student graduates
Earnings from Wrexham University graduates who took Applied Art - or another course in the same subject area.
Earnings
£13.9k
First year after graduation
£16.6k
Third year after graduation
£18.1k
Fifth year after graduation
Shown here are the median earnings of graduates at one, three and five years after they completed a course related to Applied Art.
Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree
Students are talking about Wrexham University on The Student Room.
Wrexham University is a vibrant, friendly, and inclusive institution.
The university was first established in 1887 as Wrexham School of Science and Art. Now, Wrexham University is a leader in accessible and practical approaches to education. The university believes that opportunities for higher education should be available to everyone.
Wrexham University offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses with practical skills at the heart of each degree. Strong and varied links with industry, dynamic research opportunities and small class sizes are key features of the course offering.
It is an exciting time to join Wrexham University as it contributes to and runs large-scale development projects. The university is focused on its £80 million Campus developments to enhance the local region and all campuses to ensure that students have the best facilities and learning environment. It has also developed prototype mirrors to be used in the world’s largest telescope, a £900 million project which will advance global scientific understanding of the universe, as part of the OpTIC Centre in St Asaph.
Wrexham University provides excellent student support and careers guidance, two factors which have contributed to the university being ranked 1st in the Wales and joint 3rd in the UK for Student Satisfaction in the Complete University Guide, 2026.
Wrexham is an up-and-coming city, with a lot to be excited about, and the university community is ideally placed for its students to make the most of it.
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