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Course Advisers will help you with picking courses, applications and general questions you might have about studying with AUB. 

You can email the team on info@studyonline.aub.ac.uk, call us on +(0)44 1202 078 720 or fill in the form below and we’ll get back to you. 

Your Student Advisers are there to assist you with anything outside of your coursework – including pointing you to any support services you need. 

You’ll have regular discussions with our academics in webinars and online forums. They’ll give you feedback on your progress through the course, and answer your questions on course content, learning activities and assessments. 

Our support doesn't end when you complete your course. Once you become a part of our alumni, you can continue accessing learning and professional development opportunities throughout your career.

Our optional face-to-face events are a great opportunity to meet your academic team and fellow students. As an online student, you can attend up to two face-to-face events per academic year. We'll cover costs relating to the event itself (such as entry fees), but you’ll need to pay for your own travel and accommodation.  

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We like to call it community.

Because when you're an online student, you might think that you that you're all by yourself and, you'll just have like a couple of prerecorded presentations to look at and then hand in your assignment, but it's not like that at all. One of our students gave feedback on this recently because, you know, I asked the the students how are you finding the course? You know, what you really like. And she said that to have that feeling of being involved in the group, she really appreciated that.

And also this, you know, it's flexible as it's online and your presentations are recorded, you can look at them when you want. This is another point of feedback students are saying that they really do appreciate not like a normal lecture where it sort of goes over your head and you've got to write notes or something, refer back to your notes.

The lectures you can play back there's lecture notes included in everything.

And also, like I said, that the industry, connections that students make. So are already making connections with industry and, reaching out to these presenters that, are all willing to sort of give to the course. So, yeah, there's a lot of support, and I won't say too much about it because I'm sure the others have got the same stories, but, it's not only the support that they get on the online, it's the advisors, the court advisors, but they're there the whole time. So if anybody's got any questions or problems, they can go to the course advisers, or they can just post a question online that they post whatever they want to know, post a question, and then they get their feedback.

Feel like the career pathway is multifarious and lots of possibilities there within film.

Specifically to think about skills that this course would equip students with.

You know, there are practical and creative skills, so encouraging students to explore new materials or techniques in their filmmaking work.

We also kind of prioritize film analysis and research methods and try and encourage students to gain a contextual understanding of their practice in relation to the creative industries and with wider areas of visual culture.

Because films are ultimately only as good as the ideas that support them.

Communication and presentation are also really important skills to find work and to be a successful filmmaker in lots of different disciplines within the industry.

So we encourage students to kind of synthesize their ideas, develop compelling project proposals and bring them to life through collaboration.

However, we do encourage, very strongly, developing an online studio community of practice; the students are always, engaging with each other, sharing ideas, swapping briefs, swapping designs, getting feedback from each other, as if we were part of a practice, of however many students we are. So, no, we don't have any sort of, group projects in that traditional sense. The other thing we do is, of course, landscape architecture is a very collaborative discipline, not many landscape architects would be working completely independently on any project, and obviously as the projects increase in scale and complexity, like with interior design, one is always part of a wider kind of range of people, and that's something we look at very much in terms of analysis and understanding and looking at exemplars and really understanding where the landscape practice sits within the other disciplines. It's a strong part of our course.