Who We Are and What We Do
The Arts University College at Bournemouth, established in 1885 as a specialist institute, is now a leading University College offering high quality specialist education in arts, design, media and performance across the creative industries. We remain passionate about our subjects and continue to encourage curiosity, risk-taking and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and its boundaries. The Arts University College provides staff and students with a well resourced environment in which to practise to the highest professional standards.
The University College offers a range of courses in arts, design, media and performance, details of which can be found in the Courses section of this website.
A document detailing the University College School, Directorates and sections with a description of their functions will be available shortly.
The University College’s core values
- being able to provide a supportive environment in which every student is encouraged to fulfil their own potential, from Junior Art School through to postgraduate study
- collaborative working with industry and other education providers
- collective working within a creative community
- diversity and individuality
- entrepreneurship and engagement with the creative industries
- equal learning opportunities for all
- excellence in research, scholarship, teaching and learning
- freedom of thought and its appropriate expression
- high standards of work expressed in a professional context
- practitioners who are able to be critically reflective and are able to apply such reflection to their work and the work of others
- the provision of an education that enables learning to continue after study with us
- staff and the contribution they make collectively to the local, regional and national and international cultural and social economies.
