This course aims to prepare you to take responsibility for the development phase of creative product design in a global context; we place an emphasis on the engineering of direct end user products and the stakeholder interactions needed to see them through to successful completion. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities has one of the longest established undergraduate product design courses in the UK with a portfolio of industry partnerships, competition success and a record of producing graduates who are influential designers in a wide range of fields. Your work will be marked according to how well you achieve the various learning outcomes, which will be clearly set out on all project briefs. There is one written assignment per year and the rest of the coursework is in the form of practical projects, usually mounted on boards and accompanied by developmental work and sketchbooks. Some project submissions are electronic and in these cases you’ll either supply a disc, flash drive or load your work onto the University server. Coursework is assessed using a variety of methods including: presentations, portfolio reviews, essays, reports, reflective logs, e-journals, blogs, displays and exhibitions. On successful completion, you should be able to: use advanced materials, production processes and construction relevant to user-end product design; understand how to give vision, strategy and leadership to a team of creative designers; and utilise and reflect critically upon the drivers for design to generate a wide range of ideas, concepts, proposals solutions or arguments independently or collaboratively in response to set briefs or self-initiated activity.