Unlock your potential by exploring a wide range of creative courses designed to spark fresh ideas, build valuable skills, and open new opportunities. Whether you’re looking to advance your career, discover a new passion, or simply nurture your personal growth, these courses offer the perfect space to learn, experiment, and grow.
Level 1 Courses – Introductory Knowledge and Skills
Stained Glass
This is an ideal course for those who wish to gain a qualification in Stained Glass. In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to produce a finished leaded glass panel to your chosen design. Research and plan your design, develop your ideas, use practiced techniques safely and reflect upon your finished piece.
Where: Stroud Campus When: 25 September 2025 – 26 March 2026
Find out more: L1 UAL Stained Glass
Ceramics
Discover the joy of working with clay in this hands-on Ceramics course, designed to introduce you to essential ceramic techniques and creative processes. Whether you’re a complete beginner or looking to build your confidence in a studio setting, this course offers a supportive, structured pathway into ceramic art.
Where: Stroud Campus When: 16 September 2025 – 21 April 2026
Find out more: UAL Level 1 in Ceramics
Level 2 Courses
Digital Design
This course will introduce you to the diverse realm of Digital Art, where you’ll explore free software and unleash your creativity in creating captivating images and engaging graphic designs. Whether you’re a beginner or seeking to expand your existing knowledge, this course serves as a steppingstone into the exciting world of Digital Design.
Where: Queens Road Campus When: 13 January 2026 – 12 June 2026
Find out more: L2 Digital Design
Digital Promotion for Business
This course is designed for small businesses and entrepreneurs wishing to develop digital marketing skills to enhance their business. To maximise revenue potential in today’s ever growing technological landscape there has never been a more crucial time to invest in the world of digital marketing to upskill your business and establish yourself within the industry.
Where: Filton Campus When: 23 September 2025 – 16 December 2025
Where: Stroud Campus When: 23 September 2025 – 16 December 2025
Find out more: L2 Digital Promotion for Business
Pre-Access to Higher Education Art and Design
Developed to provide students with an interest in creativity, art and design with the opportunity to explore different creative disciplines, materials, methods, processes and introduce theoretical skills that underpin creative practice. This course is also a potential stepping stone into further progression Arts studies for students wishing to progress into further education in the future.
Where: Stroud Campus When: 17 September 2025 – 20 May 2026
Where: Queens Road Campus When: 18 September 2025 – 21 May 2026
Find out more: L2 Pre-Access to HE Art & Design
Stained Glass
This course will allow you to gain a recognised qualification and develop design/craft skills in stained or fused glass techniques.
Where: Stroud Campus When: 25 September 2025 – 26 March 2026
Find out more: L2 UAL Stained Glass
Creative Media Production & Technology
Providing hands on experience and an understanding of the basics of Games Design. This course will look at the fundamentals of game design with a focus on the glory days of gaming, the 90s.
This course is also a potential steppingstone into further games design learning at Level 3 and above.
Where: Stroud Campus When: 2 October 2025 – 7 May 2026
Find out more: UAL Award in Creative Media Production & Technology
Non-accredited Courses
Creative Writing with Ronnie McGraph
Whether you are writing to get published or just for fun, this ten-week course takes an innovative approach to writing poetry and fiction by making the familiar strange and educating the imagination through a play with words.
Where: Stroud Campus When: 24 September 2025 – 3 December 2025
Find out more: Creative Writing with Ronnie McGrath
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