Your year of study on Level 0 is a transitionary time for developing a committed and self-motivated working practise to take onto your degree in visual art and design. We aim to help you develop            an understanding of materials as part of the ideas generation process. We recognise this is a challenge and are here to help guide you through what will hopefully be an exciting year at the start of a journey towards a professional career in the creative industries. The basis for success on year zero is an individual enquiring mind and an ability to solve problems through making and doing. By the end of the programme we aim for you to feel confident using process and research to shape and contextualize your own self initiated art and design work. 

On the programme you will have the opportunity to develop keys skills for art and design through practice, working with materials (wood, metal, plaster), process, creative expression, problem solving, reflective thinking and cultural and contextual analysis. Throughout the program you will be supported and guided in the selection of your future field of study.

Successful completion of Level 0 programme gives you direct entry to the following specialist programmes at UEL

• K108 Architecture
• W222 Fashion (including BA Hons Fashion Design, BA Hons Fashion Design with Marketing, BA Hons Fashion Futures: Trend Prediction and Forecasting)
• W108 Fine Art
• W219 Graphic Design
• W282 Moving Image
• W642 Photography
• W228 Printed Textile Design
• Combined honours programs are also available