Make-Up and Hair Design with Art & Design Foundation Year

Got a passion for creative design? Not quite ready to undertake a full honours degree? Solent University’s Design Foundation Programme is perfectly suited to students who may not be from an art- design- or fashion-related background or whose qualifications do not meet the admissions requirements of their chosen course.

To help get you up to speed, this one-year foundation course provides all the creative, technical and study skills needed for entry onto a degree-level art, design or fashion course. Upon completion, you will be able to progress onto a range of art-, design- and fashion- related courses here at Solent.

The course begins with a five-week group project. This enables students to mix with like-minded peers and helps them to settle in quickly. This project also helps students to decide which area they might like to follow at a later stage.

The following ten weeks are spent introducing students to the world of art, design and fashion. This includes design history, vocabulary, methods and academic foundation. This ten-week block will also give students the opportunity to learn and apply two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualisation techniques, giving them the tools required to conduct their final project.

This final project takes place in the last fifteen weeks of the course and is based around the specific discipline that the student will go on to study. The project will be supported by tuition in visual presentation techniques, enabling students to communicate their concepts, development processes and final proposals. Students will also receive instruction in verbal communication and presentation techniques, increasing their confidence in pitching design ideas.

FOUNDATION MODULES
Creative Applications
Contextual Practice
Materials and Methods
Research and Ideas Development
Personal Development Planning
Degree-Related Project

If you successfully pass the foundation year, you will automatically progress to the 3 year BA (Hons) Make Up and Hair Design degree (please note that these modules may change)

YEAR 1 - CORE MODULES
Design Practice
Professional Application
Image Construction
Character Design
Visual Narratives
Culture and Context

YEAR 2 - CORE MODULES
Editorial Beauty and Catwalk Stories
Character and Identity
Visual Cultures
Fashion Film and Media
Professional Practice for the Creative Economy

YEAR 2 - OPTIONS (please note that not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year)
The Make-up Morgue
Radical Bodies

YEAR 3 - CORE MODULES
Creative Research Project: Proposal
Work Based Learning
Creative Research Project: Development and Realisation
Dissertation

YEAR 3 - OPTIONS (please note that not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year)
Speculative Design
Art Direction, Psychology and Image

You will learn by:

Collaborative Learning
Directed Learning
Guided Learning

You may be assessed by a combination of:

Sketchbooks
Research projects
Portfolios
Individual presentations
Assignments
Practical exams

Solent’s curriculum framework builds on our unique, creative and applied approach to teaching. The transformation of students’ lives is at the heart of our mission as a university, and our curriculum – informed by the latest theory – reflects this shared educational vision.