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Dave Pettitt - Programme Leader
Before joining the University as a Senior Lecturer, Dave had an extensive career working as a Creative Director in agencies all over the UK. He's an Art Director by trade and a visually driven creative. He has created campaigns across a mix of market sectors for a range of clients, such as BT, E.ON, De Montfort University, Ronseal, Yamaha, Triumph, Slimming World, Age UK, Hanson, Gala Bingo, and Thorntons.
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Welcome to BA (Hons) Creative Advertising
In increasingly competitive global markets, it is the brands with creative, engaging, and innovative advertising that stand out from the crowd.
The BA (Hons) Creative Advertising degree at Lincoln encourages students to become adaptive creative thinkers, who can work in small teams to develop their thoughts into concepts that can be turned into creative campaigns.
The course explores the relationship between conceptual thinking, copywriting, and design. It gives students the tools to develop an understanding of the integrated nature of effective advertising.
Students have the opportunity to work on creative briefs for clients through a range of media, from television and print to digital and ambient advertising, gaining the practical skills and insight needed to meet real-world challenges.
Our academics are experienced practitioners who maintain industry links, helping to create opportunities for work experience. The course has an extensive range of long-standing relationships with some of the biggest advertising agencies in the world such as VCCP, Grey, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Ogilvy.
Students have the opportunity to enter prestigious international competitions, such as Design and Art Direction (D&AD), You Can Now (YCN), and Cannes Future Lions. Find out more about our students' recent competition success: https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/lsd/studentawards
You can also find out more about the work of our staff and students by following our dedicated Creative Advertising Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/ca_lincoln/
This programme is also available with an Arts Foundation Year, which can provide an alternative route of entry on to the full degree programme. Find out more at https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/course/afyafyub/.
How You Study
Throughout a career-focused curriculum, students can develop the professional skills and knowledge and the digital literacy and teamworking abilities to produce original ideas through high-level creative thinking. Students can embrace the various creative advertising roles required throughout a wide range of advertising projects, working in collaborative teams.
Tutor-led, student-led, and independent learning sessions are at the core of our teaching approach. The learning experience encourages students to push their creative thinking so that they embrace learning through failed ideas and concepts, as this is the path to innovative and original project solutions. This is alongside students learning to respond to advertising briefs which require a sound grasp of commercial communications, and the ability to identify and reach defined audiences.
Through extensive practice in the studio, students can develop their strategic, conceptual, copywriting, planning, pitching, and creative problem-solving skills. In the final year, students are able to refine their portfolio of work and be part of a showcase of advertising campaigns across different communication channels.
The programme utilises a dynamic mix of delivery methods to make for an enriched and engaged student experience. Up-to-date digital blended teaching methods are used to support an education that reflects the current landscape.
What You Need to Know
We want you to have all the information you need to make an informed decision on where and what you want to study. To help you choose the course that’s right for you, we aim to bring to your attention all the important information you may need. Our What You Need to Know page offers detailed information on key areas including contact hours, assessment, optional modules, and additional costs.
An Introduction to Your Modules
† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.
How you are assessed
The way students are assessed on this course may vary for each module. Examples of assessment methods that may be used include coursework, such as written assignments, reports or dissertations, or review of creative output.
Fees and Scholarships
Going to university is a life-changing step and it's important to understand the costs involved and the funding options available before you start. A full breakdown of the fees associated with this programme can be found on our course fees pages.
For eligible undergraduate students going to university for the first time, scholarships and bursaries are available to help cover costs. The University of Lincoln offers a variety of merit-based and subject-specific bursaries and scholarships. For full details and information about eligibility, visit our scholarships and bursaries pages.
Course-Specific Additional Costs
Standard workshop induction costs are covered by the University, as are some initial printing and material costs. However, depending on the media/materials chosen by the student, there may be additional costs incurred.
The Creative Advertising programme aims to run trips to London advertising agencies once during the second year of study and once or twice during the third year. These trips are optional and will not impact upon student grades. Travel costs for these trips are the responsibility of the student. These can vary, however students are all given ample notice.
The programme also aims to run a trip to New York advertising agencies once during the second year of study. This is optional and does not have an impact on any grades on the course. The cost of the New York trip is approximately £850 (based on recent figures).
The School aims to subsidise third-year showcase work. However, students can expect to collectively raise additional funds between themselves towards a 'private view' entertainments budget, should they choose to do so. A figure of £200 is approximate and depends on the size of the year group and the number attending.
Other additional costs can include notebooks, A3 layout pads (approx. £5-£10 each), and marker/fineliner pens (approx. £1-£3 each).
Entry Requirements 2023-24
United Kingdom
A Levels: BBC (112 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 3 A levels or equivalent qualifications).
International Baccalaureate: 29 points overall.
BTEC Extended Diploma: Distinction, Merit, Merit or equivalent.
T Level: Merit
Access to Higher Education Diploma: 45 Level 3 credits with a minimum of 112 UCAS Tariff points.
A combination of qualifications which may include A Levels, BTEC, EPQ, etc.
Applicants will also need at least three GCSEs at grade 4 (C) or above, which must include English. Equivalent Level 2 qualifications may be considered.
The University accepts a wide range of qualifications as the basis for entry. We will also consider applicants with extensive and relevant work experience and will give special individual consideration to those who do not meet the standard entry qualifications.
International
Non UK Qualifications:
If you have studied outside of the UK, and are unsure whether your qualification meets the above requirements, please visit our country pages https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/studywithus/internationalstudents/entryrequirementsandyourcountry/ for information on equivalent qualifications.
EU and Overseas students will be required to demonstrate English language proficiency equivalent to IELTS 6.0 overall, with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. For information regarding other English language qualifications we accept, please visit the English Requirements page https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/studywithus/internationalstudents/englishlanguagerequirementsandsupport/englishlanguagerequirements/
If you do not meet the above IELTS requirements, you may be able to take part in one of our Pre-sessional English and Academic Study Skills courses.
https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/studywithus/internationalstudents/englishlanguagerequirementsandsupport/pre-sessionalenglishandacademicstudyskills/
For applicants who do not meet our standard entry requirements, our Arts Foundation Year can provide an alternative route of entry onto our full degree programmes:
https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/course/afyafyub/
If you would like further information about entry requirements, or would like to discuss whether the qualifications you are currently studying are acceptable, please contact the Admissions team on 01522 886097, or email admissions@lincoln.ac.uk
Features
Study Trips
Students can take part in visits to London advertising agencies, as well as an optional visit to New York, giving them the opportunity to build contacts and industry knowledge prior to graduating. Please note, optional study visits are at the student's own expense. These optional trips are not graded.
Guest Speakers
The Creative Advertising Society holds industry talks and workshops in our Lincoln studio with high-profile guest speakers from advertising. Previous speakers have included Rory Sutherland, Vikki Ross, and Sir John Hegarty.
Build Your Portfolio
Third-year students can complete a project designed specifically to build their profile and get them noticed by significant figures in the creative industries. The end of year show, which has previously been held at one of London’s most famous advertising agencies, enables students to showcase their portfolios and meet decision makers from top agencies across the country – providing a platform to begin their search for a role after graduation.
Specialist Facilities
Through instilling in our design students a thoughtful and critical approach to the way they think about design and apply their creative skills, we aim to prepare them to be leaders in the creative industries.
The University of Lincoln has a comprehensive range of facilities designed to provide a supportive environment for creative practitioners. Students have regular access to workshops, labs, studios, and industry-standard equipment, as well as highly knowledgeable technicians. This environment can help students to develop their knowledge and skills, and complements our purpose-built design studios.
Student Design Awards
Lincoln School of Design students have a long history of winning and being shortlisted for international and national student design competitions, and the last few years have been no exception.
"It is encouraging to see students overflowing with ideas that are both insightful, fresh and challenging. I have set the brief I gave to the Lincoln second years to a number of other courses, yet the work produced by the Lincoln students was head and shoulders above the rest. Rather than default to posters and film, I saw subscription models, innovative design, clean branding, and a wonderful use of language."
Simon Lloyd, Global Creative Director, adam&eveDDB.Career Opportunities
85 per cent of the University of Lincoln's most recent Creative Advertising graduates were in work of further study six months after completing their course, according to the latest Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey.
Some of our most recent Creative Advertising graduates have gone on to work in top creative companies around the world such as Spotify, Grey, adam&eveDDB, Droga5, Fallon, WCRS, Achtung!, Leo Burnett, and Ogilvy. Many take on roles in communications and marketing, or set up their own businesses, while others go on to study further at Master's or doctoral level.
Graduate roles have included Art Director, Content Creator, Strategist, Creative Producer, Junior Campaign Manager, Social Media Advertising Executive, Copywriter, Insights and Audience Planner, and Illustration Agent at destinations including Above+Beyond, AnalogFolk, Bare Conductive, Channel 4, Distract, Havas Helia, Havas LYNX, HTK, ITV, Karmarama, Lemonade Illustration Agency, McCann Worldgroup, Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi, St. Luke's, Teads, The Drum, The Gate London, VCCP, VMLY&R, WCRS, Wieden+Kennedy, and Wunderman Thompson.
"After generating a great deal of positive interest from the industry through their now-famous 'black cab book crit' idea, graduates Shannon Cripps and Beth Wood now work for the in-house creative team at Channel 4 – picking up prestigious Cream and D&AD New Blood awards along the way."
Shannon Cripps and Beth Wood, BA (Hons) Creative Advertising graduatesVisit Us in Person
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