Other sources of funding may include employer contributions, Enhanced Learning Credits (for Armed Forces Serving Personnel and Service Leavers) and Prisoner Education Trust. As a student with OCA, most reading materials can be accessed through the digital library services and eBooks, or sent to you in the post. Other costs you may find on your degree include purchasing software (i. e. Adobe Suite) and /materials/books/texts to assist in your practice and research. These can be around £400 at Level 1, £500 at Level 2, and £550 at Level 3. Costs will vary depending on your choice of medium and whether books are bought or loaned from the library. Work is largely submitted to tutors and for assessment via email, however postal costs are expected to be around £40 per assessment for sending materials depending on quantity and weight of materials. Rates for overseas students will be higher. Interior Design is an open access degree; this means that there are no formal qualifications or experience required to join the course.
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Home / Degree Courses / BA (Hons) Interior Design Study a Interior Design degree with OCA Have you ever stepped into an empty house and marvelled at the blank walls, the open space, with eagerness to design or deliver the rooms creative potential? BA (Hons) Interior Design at OCA will challenge your preconceptions of what space is, and how you can shape it. Exploring how people and society relate to their environments. The course will harness your creativity, helping you to become a spatial dreamer, architectural investigator and playful innovator of interiors. Throughout the course you'll develop skills by envisaging, exploring and experimenting. Support from your specialist tutor and creative community will evoke new ideas and interpretations. You'll question both the physical and the invisible, conducting experiment-led research and learn from these tests. Through model-making, drawing and self-reflection you'll be encouraged to develop your own creative approach to interior design.
The course supports you to develop the skills you need to become a professional interior designer, working with clients to capture spirit and essence. Start your journey today! Apply Now Course Structure The degree is split into eight units; three at Level 1 (HE4), two at Level 2 (HE5), and three at Level 3 (HE6). There are some core units that all students take, many more optional units, and some prerequisites for units at higher levels. As a flexible degree, you can complete the programme in 9 years, with a maximum of three years to complete each level of the course. Course Units At Level 1 (HE4), you'll take three core units, Exploring Principles & Theories, Exploration through Experimentation and Exploring Creative Practice. You'll be introduced to the basics of interior design and the built environment, and learn higher education principles of creativity, evaluation, and reflection. Level 2 (HE5) covers Advancing Forward, and Future Thinking. Here you'll be introduced to conventions, and project management through negotiated briefs.
If you're studying towards an Open degree, you'll need three Level 1 (HE4) course units to gain the necessarry 120 credits to move on to Level 2 (HE5). Deposit is £440 followed by 8 monthly instalments of £120. £1, 670 Per course unit (6o credits) All of the OCA's Level 2 (HE5) course units are worth 60 credits each. If you're studying towards an Open degree, you'll need two Level 2 (HE5) course units to gain the necessarry 120 credits to move on to Level 3 (HE6). Deposit is £520 followed by 10 monthly instalments of £120. £3, 340 For the level OCA's Level 3 (HE6) course units hold differing amounts of credits depending upon the given Open degree pathway. Two 40 credit units are studied concurrently and the deposit for these two units is £510 followed by 14 monthly instalments of £120. The only exception to this is the Creative Writing Degree, where Level 3 is split two course units, and the deposit for each is £520, followed by 10 monthly instalments of £120. Outside of the UK 2020/21 Fees £1, 050 £4, 500 £3, 690 £1, 500 Per course unit (40 credits) All of the OCA's Level 1 (HE4) course units are worth 40 credits each.
More Information OCA degrees are paid for on a unit-by-unit basis and are around a third of the cost of a degree at a campus university. Unit costs depend on the level of the unit, and also whether you live in the UK or rest of the world. If you started studying with OCA before 01 August 2017, please contact as different fees may apply. If you are funding your course yourself you can either pay for units in full or you can spread the cost by taking advantage of our deposit and instalment facility for which a £50 fee is included in the deposit you pay. All OCA courses are listed with Student Finance England, Wales, and Northern Ireland allowing eligible students to apply for a Student Loan to cover the cost of fees. You may also be able to apply for a maintenance loan and/or Disabled Students Allowance to assist you with the cost of study. We've made this helpful guide to take you through the application process, making applying for Student Finance simple and straightforward. Download the Student Finance guide The OCA Learner Support Scheme can provide partial bursaries towards course fees for students who are not eligible for funding via Student Finance, based on financial hardship.
You'll also develop self-direction. At Level 3 (HE6), all students take Final Major Project, Critical Research, and Sustaining Your Practice. You'll study Final Major Project and Critical Research together, combining everything you've learnt throughout the programme. Sustaining Your Practice is about preparing you for life after study, enabling you to continue as a professional designer and using your degree in your hobbies, interests, career, or maybe to start a new career. Learn about studying the BA (HONS) Interior Design course from Programme Leader, Catherine Byrne. Catherine Byrne – Interior Design Programme Leader – Virtual Open Day 2021 from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo. Download the full programme specification Click here See more detail about the available units UK 2020/21 Fees Foundations £900 Per course Level 1 (HE4) £4, 050 For the level Level 2 (HE5) £3, 340 Level 3 (HE6) Breakdown of costs... £1, 350 Per course unit (4o credits) All of the OCA's Level 1 (HE4) course units are worth 40 credits each.