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College signs news partnership with leading local theatre company

25th November 2021

Local performing arts students at Cornwall College St Austell will soon be acting alongside a top Cornish theatre company Coppice Theatre, thanks to an exciting new partnership.

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Star of stage & screen surprises students

9th November 2021

Aspiring performing arts students from Cornwall College got an exciting glimpse behind the showbiz curtain with a surprise visit from celebrity Jonny Wilkes.

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Students in spotlight with Les Mis star’s acting workshop

6th October 2021

Students at Cornwall College St Austell received a masterclass in performing from a West End star this week.

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Blog: Getting ready for college!

23rd August 2021

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Blog: Top tips for results week

6th August 2021

You’ve done it, you’ve reached the long-awaited month of August - here is what you need to know next.

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TCDA Play Portfolio: Print

No Qualification • Part-time • Cornwall College Camborne

Come and Join one of our experts within the Art and Design department at Cornwall College St Austell. You will work with a range of print techniques and processes to produce. You will explore a variety of print techniques and approaches. This is a fantastic stand alone, one day course, but why not stretch yourself further and sign up to more of our experimental one day course, experimenting with clay, Drawing and Painting.

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Games Design and Animation Diploma

Level 3 • Full-time • Cornwall College Camborne

Do you love games? Are you passionate about platformers, barmy for board games and know your RPG stats inside out? Then why not come and join us on the Games Design course and find out what you are capable of! UAL Games Design is a two year, coursework based, practically focused course where you learn the skills needed to move onto University or your first steps into the ever expanding UK games industry. We focus on the development of games and game art and assets, so you don’t need to be a coding master to succeed! From developing pixel art 2D levels to fully textured 3D environments and characters we help you bring your ideas to life through our student focused curriculum. We’ll teach you how to apply essential theories to your thinking and your game products, will support you develop your own games (both digital and physical) and take your aspirations and career aims and make them our number one goal. In the first year of the course you will even create a fully realised board game, use 3D printing techniques and a full production process to launch the product in a live premiere event – and all in just ten days! Making use of the most up to date games development and digital media software you will learn to create with Adobe Creative Suite, including Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Animate, After effects and more...3d modelling software such as Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya. Game engines like Construct 3 and Ue4 and learn to work with the latest gadgets like the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality System. This course is offered at both our Camborne campus and our St Austell campus where you will benefit from access to everything that we offer in the Dance, Drama, I.T and Multimedia courses and will be involved in developing our social media presence through Instagram, YouTube and Facebook. So if playing games is your first step to making games, come and join us and lets work together to turn you from a gamer into a games designer!

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BA (Hons) Art & Design Practice

Level 6 • Full-time • Cornwall College Camborne

This programme has been developed as a progression to honours to make it possible for foundation degree graduates (and others where appropriate), to progress to achieve an honours degree in the interdisciplinary art and design area. This final year is unique to the South West and provides an exciting and vibrant Level 6 qualification with a continued emphasis on you, the learner and the development of your professional identity within the creative industries. You will develop a focused innovative practice combining particular interdisciplinary art and design interests. In particular you will have the staff expertise and practical up to date facilities to enable you to explore, Print Making, Ceramics, Painting, Graphic Design, 3D Design, Mould Making & Fine Art Textiles. This is supported by an advanced skills and knowledge set reflecting your particular direction through the programme. You will be expected to develop an independent, autonomous practice, synthesise prior learning and present a public realisation of your work. The programme aims to facilitate within graduates an enthusiasm, curiosity and flexibility to equip you for a future in developing challenging art and design projects, whilst also operating across a range of arts careers and creative practices. The programme aims to be a unique blend of traditional, contemporary and innovative approaches to learning. The curriculum is enquiry driven to provide you with a centred active education. Its design deliberately discourages the reductive question ‘What do I need to do to pass this module?’ by providing a framework which begs the question ‘Can I do this?’ and developing an enquiring attitude. This is consistent with the need for workers in the creative industries to be able to apply in-depth subject knowledge to a variety of circumstances. For examples of student artwork please follow the link for our virtual summer show: https://bit.ly/2TZkYRZ Download BA (Hons) Art and Design Practice Programme Specification (2021-22) at https://www.cornwall.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BA-Hons-Art-and-Design-Practice-Programme-Specification-2021-22.pdf Download BA (Hons) Art and Design Practice Module Appendix Record (2021-22) at https://www.cornwall.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BA-Hons-Art-and-Design-Practice-Module-Appendix-Record-2021-22.pdf

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