Programmes validated by the University of Hertfordshire (UK) for delivery in Moscow:

• Graphic Design and Illustration
• Interior and Spatial Design
• Product Design
• Fashion Design
• Fine Art *

* subject to validation in 2010

The main principle lies in the fact that graduates of British higher education courses offered in Russia are provided with all the appropriate certificates including international academic awards from the University of Hertfordshire. This opens unlimited opportunities for our students in terms of career planning on a global level.

Thanks to the credit system and validated educational programmes, the years spent under the tutelage of the British Higher School of Art and Design turn into a freely convertible asset which the student may carry over to practically any Western educational institution.

The final year of BA courses, spent in Britain to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree, gives far-reaching connections and direct contact with English culture. It is also a great opportunity to become part of the infectious drive of London whose special atmosphere channels energy to artists and designers from all over the world and serves as a nourishing environment for great ideas and fantastic projects.

First of all, these courses are meant for school students in their final year who, after finishing school and receiving their GCSEs, will be applying for admission to BHSAD. The idea of the course is to create opportunities for applicants to develop their skills to enable them to enter the Foundation Art & Design Course and then to progress to Higher Education in their chosen field.

This exciting programme is designed to develop your creative abilities within an industrial and commercial context so that designing, selling and marketing are all seen as connected creative pursuits. The programme teaches different aspects of fashion design from creation (including traditional and avant-garde methods of pattern-cutting), through to successful retailing.

This course is focused on creating innovative design solutions to various contemporary issues inherent in the private/public spheres of the architectural environment. Conceptual ideas and technical skills development are supported through an interdisciplinary approach to design that includes: installation art, scenography, cinematic space, furniture design and architecture as they are applied in interior and spatial design. Through a combination of studio-based projects, exploratory work, lectures and tutorials at all levels, students are exposed to a diversity of ideas, working practices and design applications through both 2D design and 3D modelling.

This challenging one-year course introduces you to design concepts and practices and give you the knowledge, breadth, intensive preparation and quality of work necessary to get a place on a variety of HE courses at the School or elsewhere. The diagnostic nature of the course helps you to discover and develop your strengths, achieve the standard required for studying at HE programmes at a British HE institution, and to choose your preferred pathway option.

The course is offered to those who wish to pursue a career in illustration, graphic design, advertising, packaging design, etc. This programme provides a strong work-related experience aligned to graphic design and illustration, with students increasingly specialising in one of these two during the period of study.

This programme provides an opportunity to experience and develop the skills and processes involved in the professional practice of product design. Approaches are centred around consumer goods, where issues surrounding everyday manufactured products are developed and explored. The programme investigates the cultural, technical and commercial factors which influence the development of innovative new products, and it introduces the creative and professional strategies which underpin design.

The planned launch of the programme in 2010 will help the School to achieve the synergy of advanced western teaching/learning methodologies, experience of artists working in the west and the experience of the leading names of the Moscow art scene, art dealers and gallery businesses. The School offers an advanced level training in the arts which will enable its graduates to play leading roles in the Russian art of the 21st century. Not only will they have a profound knowledge of arts and be able to interpret art traditions, but they will be capable of, first and foremost, generating bright innovative ideas and getting them across to their viewers via a wide range of means – from classic art to ultramodern mediatechnologies.