BDes (Hons) Product Design is a professionally-focussed design course that excels in encouraging you to develop your own ideas and innovative concepts.BDes (Hons) Product Design is a professionally-focussed design course that excels in encouraging you to develop your own ideas and innovative concepts. We offer you a highly creative environment in which to develop your own ideas, and provides you with opportunities for future careers in the creative industries across national and international markets.<br><br>Employability is core to the ethos of the School of Art's learning and teaching. The course provides opportunities at all levels to experience and engage with professional and industrial contacts.<br><br>Level 4 students are encouraged to encounter and experience all aspects of their specialist area and further embed themselves into the subject through visits and speakers.<br><br>Level 5 students will have the opportunity to experience professional practice and will work on subject-specific briefs led by external clients/organisations. At this level there will also be an emphasis on off-site/live projects/placements that offer opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborative practice. Level 5 is designed to give students the opportunity to risk take and experiment within their subjects but also to meet and network with other students across the School of Art.<br><br>Level 6 emphasises self-negotiated projects and provides students with the time and support to develop their individual voices as artists and designers. There is also provision for interdisciplinary teams working together on ambitious final outcomes where appropriate, and student will be supported to maintain placement learning and external networks established at Level 5.