Drawing with Integrated Foundation Year

Develop your skills by entering the creative industries on an Integrated Foundation Year degree.

If you’re interested in taking on a new subject that you’ve not had the opportunity to study in depth before, or have been out of education for a while, then our Integrated Foundation Year courses might be for you. These four-year courses include an introductory year to help you build the core skills needed for specialist degree-level study.

This is a chance for you to let your imagination run wild and explore your creativity, expand your professional skills and develop enhanced subject knowledge in the domain you want to study. We’ll help nurture your expertise in problem solving, risk-taking, designing and making as you develop your abilities through five core modules.

After your foundation year, you’ll have a deeper knowledge of your subject, a clear understanding of your strengths, a developed practical and technical skill set and the confidence to excel in your chosen degree subject when you join other students for the rest of your course.

Push your drawing practice into the professional realm. Explore the versatility of drawing on this stimulating studio-based course. By investigating material, digital, spatial and conceptual processes and approaches, you’ll become an independent and ambitious critical thinker, identifying a wide variety of social, public and professional contexts for your work.

You’ll be supported to experiment freely and take creative risks as you generate innovative visions, proposals and concepts to self-initiated projects and live briefs. You’ll graduate as an entrepreneurial, resilient and resourceful practitioner with a unique portfolio and equipped with the technical and transferrable skills needed to forge an exciting career in the creative industries and beyond.

Why study this course at Falmouth? Develop technical, design thinking and production skills in your chosen specialism. Learn teamwork, leadership and project management skills through a variety of learning environments. Develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills through the development of unique and innovative projects. Complete your chosen degree over a four-year period. Develop your practice and collaborate with peers in Falmouth’s renowned School of Art studios and facilities. Work on exciting projects with a wide range of partners such as Trelissick House, Wheal Martyn Clay Works, Gallery Tresco, R.K. Burt Paper Gallery, and ShelterBox Truro. Enhance your practice and research through inspiring off-site visits. Produce a distinctive body of work and stage it in a public exhibition curated alongside the work of your peers.