Top Preparatory Year Programs in Arts

A portfolio is a compiled documentation of your artwork which might include sketches, drawings, illustration, painting, photography of your 3d artwork, writings, and many more.

This program is intended to provide students with a preparation for Accademia di Belle Arti in Italy. Foundation in this program includes Drawing, Art History, Workshop and Italian Language. The electives depending on the school you would like to enter, includes Oil and Water Painting, History of Architecture, and a Portfolio Preparation. The curriculum is changed for your requesting schools.

Accademia Riaci provides the following programs:

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Does artistic talent lie within you? Do you dream of becoming an architect? Register for one of our preparatory courses for artistic studies at our centre in Prague-Krystal!

The course focuses on intensive Czech tuition and the subjects in which students will sit university entrance exams. This is why we offer future artists subjects such as art, art history or an artistic seminar. For aspiring architects we also offer descriptive geometry, mathematics or technical drawing.

The fields of study can be broken down using the following key:

Do you have a Bachelor's degree and would like to continue your studies in the Czech Republic? Register for one of our courses in Prague-Krystal!

Students will study the Czech language intensively, before bringing in the specialist subject knowledge for Humanities.

The winter semester is predominantly dedicated to the study of the Czech language. In this course students will acquire basic communicative skills and a level of Czech grammar appropriate to everyday situations. A large emphasis is placed upon written comprehension and the ability to express oneself independently.

From the fourth month of the course students will begin learning the terminology necessary for the study of the humanities (e.g. reading and analysing academic texts). In the summer semester students attend a preparatory seminar for the university entrance exams and also attend subject lectures at university.... [-]

If you are an international student with an Art & Design Degree completed outside the UK and are looking to study a Master's in the same or different art and design discipline at a UK university, our Pre-Master's programme will prepare you for the high level of independence and specific learning skills demanded by a Master's.

For students who have completed a degree in a non-Art & Design degree but want to complete a Master’s course in a fashion-related, non-studio based subject, we also offer a route to further study. The Pre-Master’s experience provides an opportunity to develop skills and align your future career aspirations to the demands of a Master’s Degree in the UK. The types of MA courses our students can progress onto are non-practical, non-studio based courses that are more akin to management, marketing, promotion and curating.... [-]