Full-time Courses: A Level 3D and Product Design

The course aims to encourage students to take a broad view of design and technology, to develop their technical skills to help design and make 3D products and to appreciate the complex relations between design, materials, manufacture and marketing.

What will I study?

Your A level studies cover four main topics, and you’ll study two of these each year.

In ‘Materials, components and application’ – you’ll look at materials, production processes and the impact of cost and design. In ‘Learning through designing and making’ you’ll produce some coursework using your own design with a range of materials and media. In the second year you’ll get to grips with ‘Design and manufacture’ – helping you to appreciate the relationship between design and technology, or form and function. ‘Design and making in practice’ is the practical, coursework part. You’ll make an object and record the processes that you went through.

If you would like to add an A Level onto your Level 3 study programme, then please include this on your application form.