Games Design with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

**The foundation year will help you take your first step into higher education, broadening your industry knowledge and enabling you to progress to an undergraduate degree. It aims to help you develop a strong foundation of game design, alongside academic and transferable skills, to ensure you get the most out of your degree-level studies.**<br/><br/>**Games Design at Canterbury Christ Church University seeks to develop creatives who can challenge and advance the games industry. Our research and industry lead approach will allow you to explore your creative voice and question what it means to make and play.**<br/><br/>You’ll explore the processes in design and development and learn how to create games for a range of multimedia platforms that include digital and table-top games for a technological world that is constantly evolving. You’ll build a creative portfolio, showcasing skills in a specialist area of your choice that you have developed throughout the course.<br/><br/>As part of a studio-based community, you’ll have access to creative spaces that reflect the studio environments our teaching team have worked in, this will prepare you for industry and help you achieve your very best. From the ground up, we’ll support you in developing technical and teamworking skills needed to succeed in this exciting area.<br/><br/>**Top reasons to study with us**<br/><br/><br/>- The course is taught in the Daphne Oram building, our exciting creative arts facility, where you’ll have access to all the equipment and guidance necessary to produce innovative games.<br/><br/><br/>- 94% of our Games Design students were satisfied with the teaching on their course. National Student Survey 2024<br/><br/><br/>- Canterbury Christ Church University is one of the world leaders in play-culture research, and the School of Creative Arts and Industries holds one of only two major archives of arcade photography in the world.<br/><br/><br/>- You will be taught by lecturers who have years of experience working in the games industry and creative sectors.<br/><br/><br/>**Specialist facilities** <br/><br/>You’ll have access to a range of excellent facilities, including our dedicated creative arts building, Daphne Oram, which houses:<br/><br/><br/>- An extensive technology suite home to innovative games design equipment, including high-performance PCs, Mac lab, VR headsets, and equipment to loan.<br/><br/><br/>- Study areas that allow you to work independently or as a group, creating a vibrant creative learning culture.<br/><br/><br/>- A wealth of resources to learn, play, and explore. Including: video game consoles, games and media to borrow, a library of board-games, and more.<br/><br/><br/>**Location** <br/><br/>This course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.

University isn't just an education, it's the start of your career. At Canterbury Christ Church University, you'll get to explore a number of exciting career paths, whatever you study. <br/><br/>Ranked 1st in the UK for graduate employment (HESA: Graduate Outcomes 2023), Christ Church is home to career-relevant courses and industry-standard facilities. Film production students can showcase their creativity in the fully-equipped Film/TV studio, forensics students can test their observational skills in mock crime scenes, and medicine students can get a taste of life as a doctor in simulated hospital wards. <br/><br/>With a campus in a World Heritage Site, Canterbury is also less than an hour on the train from London and is buzzing with student life. You've got beautiful coast and countryside right on your doorstep, and plenty of opportunities to make friends. With Christ Church's societies including Music, Table Tennis, Cheese & Wine and Drama, you're bound to meet your friends for life. <br/><br/>Apply now to secure your place at Christ Church this September.