Take a practical approach to exploring contemporary business practices, contexts and debates. This course revolves around contemporary business practices combined with hands-on experience and knowledge. You’ll learn how to apply practical and realistic solutions to complex business scenarios, studying areas including decision-making, contemporary business environments and strategies. You will become an innovative leader, team player, articulate presenter, and problem solver, gaining experience in real client projects and enhancing your CV, ready for graduate employability.

You are a budding business strategist who is passionate about the fashion industry and wants to understand the marketing mechanics behind the big-name and challenger brands on the catwalk and high street. Our new BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing and Business degree course will offer you an insight into the commercial fundamentals, marketing strategies and core brand development techniques that are used to run the fashion industry today.

Our BA (Hons) Acting course presents a new opportunity to develop as a performing artist and work towards a successful career in film, television or radio. Building on NUA’s well-established expertise in film, moving image, sound, animation and visual effects, the new course will focus on the live and recorded screen and voice performance.

Develop the creative and technical skills behind the latest Hollywood blockbusters and learn from award-winning studio professionals on our BA (Hons) Animation and Visual Effects degree course. Our Animation and Visual Effects degree reflects NUA’s success in both disciplines. Our approach to teaching visual effects evolved from advice from professional bodies like ScreenSkills and UK Screen Alliance and the majority of the UK’s VFX industry

Experiment and explore the broad context and future of textile design at NUA as you develop your professional skills and personal style through commercial and creative briefs. Our BA (Hons) Textile Design degree course will encourage you to try a range of techniques, from traditional processes to 21st-century technology.

Connecting your passions and unique perspective to the world of professional photography is at the heart of our BA (Hons) Photography degree course, recognised by the Association of Photographers. You will develop your own approach at NUA – not a standard house style. You will learn how to apply your creative vision to a range of industry briefs, from fashion to advertising and editorial photography. Whatever your aspirations, your work will be unmistakable as you emerge as a professional practitioner with a distinctive portfolio.

Taking a conceptual approach but employing industry standard design techniques, our BA (Hons) Interior Design degree course approaches interior design both from the outside in and inside out, training you to work with a building, not just within it.

Our BA (Hons) Illustration degree course has developed a well-deserved reputation for challenging conventional thinking.

You will be inspired to create innovative answers to branding, packaging and promotional design questions facing businesses on NUA’s internationally-renowned Graphic Design degree.

Your passion for exploring visual ideas and brand communication across all platforms will be at the heart of your time at NUA studying our award-winning Graphic Communication course. Our BA (Hons) Graphic Communication degree is closely aligned with the industry and you will work on a wide variety of briefs set by staff, professional design agencies and external competitions.

Study games at NUA and you will join a university ranked in the world’s top courses by the global games industry veterans behind The Rookies in 2021. You will design and create characters, props, environments and vehicles using 2D and 3D content creation software for a range of platforms, including console, web, mobile, computer, augmented and virtual reality.

Explore your creativity, ideas and instincts in a vibrant community of artists, makers and thinkers at NUA, one of the UK’s longest-established Fine Art degrees.

Master multi-channel marketing strategies and campaigns and take your career to the next level. Our course is designed to develop practical skills and knowledge in marketing, underpinned by business and digital know-how. You will stay one step ahead of the competition by applying your new marketing skills and knowledge of emerging digital technology to practical work-based projects to create effective and successful cross-channel campaigns and strategies. This approach will give you demonstrable industry and digital experience, invaluable when applying for future marketing jobs.

Delve into how electronic music and sound production can elevate screen experiences, complement fine art, and even redefine immersive installations. Drawing upon historical and contemporary electronic music and sound design forms, BA (Hons) Electronic Music and Sound Production* will venture into new and emerging technologies and media, which move beyond the mainstream to create experimental and bold musical and sonic visions for cinema, games, gallery, live performance and other emerging immersive and virtual spaces. An exploration of sound and its capacity to create meaning and new experiences will enable you to ‘hear’ your own discipline differently.

Explore and understand why people think, feel, and behave as they do. Embark on an immersive journey delving into the essence of psychology and its significance to the world around us. You’ll discover different ideas and concepts – some familiar and some new –to examine real-world events nationally and globally and engage in current and future debates. You’ll gain a rich understanding of classic and contemporary theories, engage in discussions, explore global issues and reflect on how people think, feel and interact with the world. Tailored as a Bachelor of Arts (BA) rather than a BSc, the course focuses less on scientific study and more on building skills that can be applied to various careers – from HR to marketing.