Specialist subject knowledge
A-levels provide great depth of study in a few specialist subjects.
After two years, you will have gained subject knowledge that is often only acquired during the first year at university in many other countries.
At the Kings School of Art + Design we offer the following A-levels*:
A-level Art & Design
A-level Art & Design (Photography)
* Check subject-specific factsheets as not all subjects are offered in all colleges.
Acceptance by the UK’s best art institutions, including:
- Graphic Communication and Illustration at Loughborough (#3 for Art and Design)
- Graphic and Media Design at UAL (#36 for Art and Design)
- Game Development at Falmouth (#35 for Art and Design)
- Fashion Buying and Merchandising at UAL (#36 for Art and Design)
Art & Design
- Develops your intellectual, imaginative, creative and reflective skills.
- Develops your investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical, and expressive skills, an aesthetic understanding and critical judgement.
- Provides an understanding of the inter-relationships between art, craft and design, and an awareness of the contexts in which they operate as well as knowledge and understanding of art, craft and design in contemporary society and in other times and cultures.
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Photography
- Allows you to expand your creative horizons through taking and editing photographs.
- Teaches you about a whole range of photographic techniques and processes.
- Helps you to develop an understanding of the creative process.
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