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Applicant taster days

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Dates and booking

Available dates can be found below - just click the link for your preferred date to book your place. Only one date can be booked for each course you have applied to, and please be aware that places are limited.

  • Saturday 17 February 2024 - bookings now closed
  • Wednesday 6 March 2024 - bookings now closed
  • Saturday 13 April 2024 - bookings now closed
  • Book your place for Wednesday 1 May 2024 (excluding Art and Design and Art and Design with Creative Technologies)

Don't forget to view your schedule for the day to find out what you've got to look forward to.

Unable to find a suitable date?

You can also meet us at our Open Day on Saturday 29 June 2024 - you'll still be able to find out more about studying with us, meet our staff and students and tour our campus.

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What is an Applicant Taster Day?

An Applicant Taster Day is more in-depth than an Open Day and gives you a more tailored experience. You’ll find out more about your course and hear about the student experience through taster sessions and opportunities to meet academic staff and current students. You will also have an opportunity to view our accommodation and chat to our support services.

If you have already been to an Open Day, this is your chance to explore your course and subject area in more detail and if not, you’ll get an in-depth introduction to studying here.

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What to expect on the day

Here are some of the things you'll be able to see and do during your Applicant Taster Day:

In-depth information

Get in-depth information about your chosen course.

Learn about student life

Hear about the student experience at BCU, and where your course will take you.

Explore the campus

See the facilities that you’ll have access to on your course.

Meet the experts

Talk to your future academic tutors.

Hear from our students

Our current students will tell you what it’s really like to study here.

Get all the info you need

Find out about finance, accommodation and student support.

Schedules

Select your course and take a look at the schedules below

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12pm

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

Lunch will be available, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

1pm

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

1.30pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 1

For this session, you will first be introduced to the course, the staff and current students. You will then collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

If you would like an informal tutorial with one of the staff team at some point during the day, please feel free to bring in a past project to share with us.

2.30pm

Comfort break

2.45pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 2

For the second session of your taster day, you will continue to collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

We will round up the day with a celebration of what has been created!

3.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

6pm

Close

10am

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

We recommend you aim to arrive between 10am and 10.15am, ready to start your first session.

10.30am

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

11am

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 1

For this session, you will first be introduced to the course, the staff and current students. You will then collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

If you would like an informal tutorial with one of the staff team at some point during the day, please feel free to bring in a past project to share with us.

12pm

Lunch

Your lunch is included, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

12.45pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 2

For the second session of your taster day, you will continue to collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

We will round up the day with a celebration of what has been created!

1.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

4pm

Close

12pm

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

Lunch will be available, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

1pm

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

1.30pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 1

For this session, you will first be introduced to the course, the staff and current students. You will then collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

If you would like an informal tutorial with one of the staff team at some point during the day, please feel free to bring in a past project to share with us.

2.30pm

Comfort break

2.45pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 2

For the second session of your taster day, you will continue to collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

We will round up the day with a celebration of what has been created!

3.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

6pm

Close

10am

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

We recommend you aim to arrive between 10am and 10.15am, ready to start your first session.

10.30am

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

11am

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 1

For this session, you will first be introduced to the course, the staff and current students. You will then collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

If you would like an informal tutorial with one of the staff team at some point during the day, please feel free to bring in a past project to share with us.

12pm

Lunch

Your lunch is included, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

12.45pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 2

For the second session of your taster day, you will continue to collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

We will round up the day with a celebration of what has been created!

1.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

4pm

Close

12pm

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

Lunch will be available, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

1pm

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

1.30pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 1

For this session, you will first be introduced to the course, the staff and current students. You will then collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

If you would like an informal tutorial with one of the staff team at some point during the day, please feel free to bring in a past project to share with us.

2.30pm

Comfort break

2.45pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 2

For the second session of your taster day, you will continue to collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

We will round up the day with a celebration of what has been created!

3.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

6pm

Close

10am

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

We recommend you aim to arrive between 10am and 10.15am, ready to start your first session.

10.30am

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

11am

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 1

For this session, you will first be introduced to the course, the staff and current students. You will then collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

If you would like an informal tutorial with one of the staff team at some point during the day, please feel free to bring in a past project to share with us.

12pm

Lunch

Your lunch is included, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

12.45pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 2

For the second session of your taster day, you will continue to collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

We will round up the day with a celebration of what has been created!

1.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

4pm

Close

12pm

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

Lunch will be available, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

1pm

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

1.30pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 1

For this session, you will first be introduced to the course, the staff and current students. You will then collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

If you would like an informal tutorial with one of the staff team at some point during the day, please feel free to bring in a past project to share with us.

2.30pm

Comfort break

2.45pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 2

For the second session of your taster day, you will continue to collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

We will round up the day with a celebration of what has been created!

3.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

6pm

Close

10am

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

We recommend you aim to arrive between 10am and 10.15am, ready to start your first session.

10.30am

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

11am

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 1

For this session, you will first be introduced to the course, the staff and current students. You will then collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

If you would like an informal tutorial with one of the staff team at some point during the day, please feel free to bring in a past project to share with us.

12pm

Lunch

Your lunch is included, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

12.45pm

Materials in Motion Challenge: Part 2

For the second session of your taster day, you will continue to collaboratively experiment with a range of materials and tools in response to the given challenge - Materials in Motion - while exploring our Thought Lab, Materials Lab and Digital Lab.

We will round up the day with a celebration of what has been created!

1.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

4pm

Close

12pm

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

Lunch will be available, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

1pm

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

1.30pm

Exquisite Bodies: Drawing with the body

This workshop will explore how artists use their bodies in the making of their work. Whether that be through gestural mark making or performance.

Bring in one of your past projects (sketchbooks etc.) as a discussion point for the workshop.

In the first part of the workshop, you will make experimental drawings with strange and wonderful rules and prompts. You will try drawing with awkward implements, with only a little bit of time and with physical constraints.

2.30pm

Comfort break

2.45pm

Exquisite Bodies: Extending the body

For the second part of the workshop you will be challenged to think about performance in an expanded and potentially bodiless way. Responding to GIFs and TikTok's you will make exquisite corpse extensions or the inverted point of view of the videos you find.

You don't need to be in the videos yourself but use props, sounds and clips to contribute to extending or translating existing clips.

3.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

6pm

Close

10am

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

We recommend you aim to arrive between 10am and 10.15am, ready to start your first session.

10.30am

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

11am

Exquisite Bodies: Drawing with the body

This workshop will explore how artists use their bodies in the making of their work. Whether that be through gestural mark making or performance.

Bring in one of your past projects (sketchbooks etc.) as a discussion point for the workshop.

In the first part of the workshop, you will make experimental drawings with strange and wonderful rules and prompts. You will try drawing with awkward implements, with only a little bit of time and with physical constraints.

12pm

Lunch

Your lunch is included, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

12.45pm

Exquisite Bodies: Extending the body

For the second part of the workshop you will be challenged to think about performance in an expanded and potentially bodiless way. Responding to GIFs and TikTok's you will make exquisite corpse extensions or the inverted point of view of the videos you find.

You don't need to be in the videos yourself but use props, sounds and clips to contribute to extending or translating existing clips.

1.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

4pm

Close

12pm

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

Lunch will be available, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

1pm

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

1.30pm

Exquisite Bodies: Drawing with the body

This workshop will explore how artists use their bodies in the making of their work. Whether that be through gestural mark making or performance.

Bring in one of your past projects (sketchbooks etc.) as a discussion point for the workshop.

In the first part of the workshop, you will make experimental drawings with strange and wonderful rules and prompts. You will try drawing with awkward implements, with only a little bit of time and with physical constraints.

2.30pm

Comfort break

2.45pm

Exquisite Bodies: Extending the body

For the second part of the workshop you will be challenged to think about performance in an expanded and potentially bodiless way. Responding to GIFs and TikTok's you will make exquisite corpse extensions or the inverted point of view of the videos you find.

You don't need to be in the videos yourself but use props, sounds and clips to contribute to extending or translating existing clips.

3.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

6pm

Close

10am

Check in for your Applicant Taster Day

We recommend you aim to arrive between 10am and 10.15am, ready to start your first session.

10.30am

Welcome

Learn more about life as a student at Birmingham City University.

11am

Exquisite Bodies: Drawing with the body

This workshop will explore how artists use their bodies in the making of their work. Whether that be through gestural mark making or performance.

Bring in one of your past projects (sketchbooks etc.) as a discussion point for the workshop.

In the first part of the workshop, you will make experimental drawings with strange and wonderful rules and prompts. You will try drawing with awkward implements, with only a little bit of time and with physical constraints.

12pm

Lunch

Your lunch is included, and staff and students will also be available during this period to answer any questions you may have about studying with us.

12.45pm

Exquisite Bodies: Extending the body

For the second part of the workshop you will be challenged to think about performance in an expanded and potentially bodiless way. Responding to GIFs and TikTok's you will make exquisite corpse extensions or the inverted point of view of the videos you find.

You don't need to be in the videos yourself but use props, sounds and clips to contribute to extending or translating existing clips.

1.45pm

Tour our accommodation, campus, and facilities (optional)

Your chance to look at where you could be living and studying, guided by our student ambassadors.

4pm

Close

Travelling to your Applicant Taster Day

We're currently offering a range of discounts to help you to travel to your Applicant Taster Day.

By bus or coach

Once you've booked your place, look out for your confirmation email as it will include details of how to claim free bus travel in the West Midlands and free national coach travel (valid for you plus one guest).

By car

If you're travelling to us by car, you'll also be able to claim free parking at our City Centre campus and close to our City South, School of Art and School of Jewellery campuses.

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