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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.
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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.
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.
Here are some of the things you'll be able to see and do during your Applicant Taster Day:
Get in-depth information about your chosen course.
Hear about the student experience at BCU, and where your course will take you.
See the facilities that you’ll have access to on your course.
Talk to your future academic tutors.
Our current students will tell you what it’s really like to study here.
Find out about finance, accommodation and student support.
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
Course overview and meet staff
Find out more about the course, meet staff and students followed by a tutorial-style session, getting to know you.
Please feel free to bring a piece of your work or something that has inspired you e.g. a news article or a link to your favourite social media account.
2.30pm
Comfort break
2.45pm
Marketing as a medium
A tour followed by planning a marketing strategy for a consumer group. The focus will be on either a Northface jacket or a Gucci handbag exploring what types of methods to use with a poster to capture the message.
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
We recommend you aim to arrive between 10am and 10.15am, ready to start your first session.
10.30am
11am
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
1.45pm
4.00pm
Digital Fashion Magazine - Art Direction for a double page spread
You'll be selecting a range of images to manipulate in Adobe Photoshop. You'll learn key industry techniques to cut out backgrounds, re-colour and manipulate.
You will then create a double page spread by inserting the images in Adobe InDesign and applying text. You will learn how designers use layout to engage the reader and elevate the contents.
Turning your double page spread into Augmented Reality
Part 2 involves turning your double page spread into an interactive piece by incorporating animated / filmed elements. You will be using Blippar to make augmented reality.
This will elevate and bring the print elements to life. You will be able to take home printed artwork to use in your portfolio and show off your new AR skills to your teachers!
Tutorial: Get Inspired
During this session, you will have the chance to explore your creative style and be inspired by our academics and other students. We will break out into small groups in a tutorial-style session, reflecting how you'll be taught if you choose to study at BCU.
Our academics will work closely with you to understand your unique style and provide feedback on your work and ideas, allowing you to develop further as a creative individual.
Please feel free to bring a piece of your creative work from school or college, or work that has inspired you to this session. Examples of what you could bring include:
Please bring a maximum of one item from the list above, or something similar with you to the Applicant Taster Day.
If you are unable to bring something on the day, please don't worry as we will have items and ideas for you to choose from at the event to inspire you in your session.
Textile Design: Creative Practice
For the second session of your taster day, you will use insights and inspiration from the first tutorial to create something unique in our specialist Textile Design workshop space. Our dedicated workshop will allow you to get hands-on and craft something that reflects your creative style.
You'll have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss your work with course tutors throughout the session, so that you leave with newfound inspiration that you can reflect in your future creative work.
4pm
Fashion Design: Creative Practice
For the second session of your taster day, you will use insights and inspiration from the first tutorial to create something unique in our specialist Fashion Design studios.
Our dedicated studio that has a range of mannequins, industrial machinery and pattern cutting workstations. Which will allow you to get hands-on and craft something that reflects your creative style.
We're currently offering a range of discounts to help you to travel to your Applicant Taster Day.
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).
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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