Offer Holder Day Programme: 17 April 2024

The event will take place on two platforms: our Virtual Experience Platform and Microsoft Teams.

You can explore our Virtual Experience platform before the event.

Programme

  • Course Experience Session: check the timing for your course below
  • Welcome to Kingston and support services Q&A: your opportunity to ask the questions about non-academic aspects of university life. These 30-minute sessions will take place at 4.30pm and 6pm and can be accessed through the Virtual Experience Platform
  • On demand content: you can explore this content at any time

Course experience sessions

You'll be able to meet academics during the interactive session and get a taste of what it's like to study at Kingston.

Find your course

To find out about the specific timings for your course experience session, please look up your course in the list below. Contact us at srteam@kingston.ac.uk if you have any questions, would like to attend more than one experience session, or if any of the times offered do not work for you.

Business and Social Sciences courses

Engineering, Computing and Environment courses

Health, Science, Social Care and Education courses

Kingston School of Art courses

Business and Social Sciences courses

Accounting and Finance BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… In just one hour!

Business and Accounting BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… In just one hour!

Business Economics BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Growing Pains!

What are the effects of economic growth – the good, the bad and the ugly? Discover how to measure economic activity and analyse its impact on people's lives.

Business Management and Digital Innovation BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… In just one hour!

Business Management and Entrepreneurship BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… In just one hour!

Business Management and Marketing BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… In just one hour!

Business Management BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… In just one hour!

Business Psychology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30–6.30pm

Activity - Awaken the Genius Within!

Explore the worlds of Creative Mastery, Musical Brilliance and Literary Sage – do these abilities live within us or can genius be taught and developed? Discover what makes us creative as we unravel the secrets behind the world's gifted individuals.

Criminal Justice BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30–5.30pm

Activity - The Highs and Lows of Social Media

In this online session, we'll think about opportunities for connection, self-expression and opinion-sharing offered by social media, while also recognising the downsides, such as the impact of negative social judgements and trolling, for example. In addition, we'll bring in criminology perspectives on the opportunities social media platforms provide for criminality. As an activity, we'll be quizzing you on what kinds of posts get the most 'likes'!

Criminology and Forensic Psychology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30–5.30pm

Activity - The Highs and Lows of Social Media

In this online session, we'll think about opportunities for connection, self-expression and opinion-sharing offered by social media, while also recognising the downsides, such as the impact of negative social judgements and trolling, for example. In addition, we'll bring in criminology perspectives on the opportunities social media platforms provide for criminality. As an activity, we'll be quizzing you on what kinds of posts get the most 'likes'!

Criminology and Sociology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30–5.30pm

Activity - The Highs and Lows of Social Media

In this online session, we'll think about opportunities for connection, self-expression and opinion-sharing offered by social media, while also recognising the downsides, such as the impact of negative social judgements and trolling, for example. In addition, we'll bring in criminology perspectives on the opportunities social media platforms provide for criminality. As an activity, we'll be quizzing you on what kinds of posts get the most 'likes'!

Criminology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30–5.30pm

Activity - The Highs and Lows of Social Media

In this online session, we'll think about opportunities for connection, self-expression and opinion-sharing offered by social media, while also recognising the downsides, such as the impact of negative social judgements and trolling, for example. In addition, we'll bring in criminology perspectives on the opportunities social media platforms provide for criminality. As an activity, we'll be quizzing you on what kinds of posts get the most 'likes'!

Economics BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Growing Pains!

What are the effects of economic growth – the good, the bad and the ugly? Discover how to measure economic activity and analyse its impact on people's lives.

Financial Economics BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Growing Pains!

What are the effects of economic growth – the good, the bad and the ugly? Discover how to measure economic activity and analyse its impact on people's lives.

Forensic Psychology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30–6.30pm

Activity - Awaken the Genius Within!

Explore the worlds of Creative Mastery, Musical Brilliance and Literary Sage – do these abilities live within us or can genius be taught and developed? Discover what makes us creative as we unravel the secrets behind the world's gifted individuals.

International Business BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… in just one hour!

International Law with Professional Experience LLB (Hons)

Time: 4.30–5.30pm

Activity - You Decide

Act as a judge, a barrister or a member of a jury and consider legal, ethical and moral arguments and dilemmas. Listen to evidence from defendants faced with a choice; commit a crime or allow others to suffer. Did they break the Law? Will you be able to make a judgement?

Law and Criminal Justice LLB (Hons)

Time: 4.30–5.30pm

Activity - You Decide

Act as a judge, a barrister or a member of a jury and consider legal, ethical and moral arguments and dilemmas. Listen to evidence from defendants faced with a choice; commit a crime or allow others to suffer. Did they break the law? Will you be able to make a judgement?

Law with Professional Experience LLB (Hons)

Time: 4.30–5.30pm

Activity - You Decide

Act as a judge, a barrister or a member of a jury and consider legal, ethical and moral arguments and dilemmas. Listen to evidence from defendants faced with a choice; commit a crime or allow others to suffer. Did they break the law? Will you be able to make a judgement?

Marketing and Advertising BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5–6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… in just one hour!

Marketing BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5pm-6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… in just one hour!

Psychology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity - Awaken the Genius Within!

Explore the worlds of Creative Mastery, Musical Brilliance and Literary Sage – do these abilities live within us or can genius be taught and developed? Discover what makes us creative as we unravel the secrets behind the world's gifted individuals.

Psychology with Counselling BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity - Awaken the Genius Within!

Explore the worlds of Creative Mastery, Musical Brilliance and Literary Sage – do these abilities live within us or can genius be taught and developed? Discover what makes us creative as we unravel the secrets behind the world's gifted individuals.

Psychology with Criminology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity - Awaken the Genius Within!

Explore the worlds of Creative Mastery, Musical Brilliance and Literary Sage – do these abilities live within us or can genius be taught and developed? Discover what makes us creative as we unravel the secrets behind the world's gifted individuals.

Psychology with Sociology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity - Awaken the Genius Within!

Explore the worlds of Creative Mastery, Musical Brilliance and Literary Sage – do these abilities live within us or can genius be taught and developed? Discover what makes us creative as we unravel the secrets behind the world's gifted individuals.

Real Estate Management BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5pm-6pm

Activity - Hack your way to success

Speed, agility and a can-do culture are key to business success in today's world. Join us for an interactive online hackathon to tackle a business problem and identify innovative solutions… in just one hour!

Sociology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity - The Highs and Lows of Social Media

In this online session, we'll think about opportunities for connection, self-expression and opinion-sharing offered by social media, while also recognising the downsides, such as the impact of negative social judgements and trolling, for example. In addition, we'll bring in criminology perspectives on the opportunities social media platforms provide for criminality. As an activity, we'll be quizzing you on what kinds of posts get the most 'likes'!

Engineering, Computing and Environment courses

Aerospace Engineering (Space Technology) MEng/BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Come fly with me!

Ever questioned how aircraft stay in the sky? All the answers will be revealed as we explore exactly this. We're also throwing in some demos of the exciting facilities you'll be using once you're with us.

Aerospace Engineering Meng/BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Come fly with me!

Ever questioned how aircraft stay in the sky? All the answers will be revealed as we explore exactly this. We're also throwing in some demos of the exciting facilities you'll be using once you're with us.

Aircraft Engineering BEng (Hons) top-up

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Come fly with me!

Ever questioned how aircraft stay in the sky? All the answers will be revealed as we explore exactly this. We're also throwing in some demos of the exciting facilities you'll be using once you're with us.

Aviation Engineering BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Come fly with me!

Ever questioned how aircraft stay in the sky? All the answers will be revealed as we explore exactly this. We're also throwing in some demos of the exciting facilities you'll be using once you're with us.

Aviation Operations with Commercial Pilot Training BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Come fly with me!

Ever questioned how aircraft stay in the sky? All the answers will be revealed as we explore exactly this. We're also throwing in some demos of the exciting facilities you'll be using once you're with us.

Building Surveying BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.45pm

Activity – Plan-tastic

As well as an overview of your subject area, you'll get interactive and take part in the online measurement of a construction floor plan.

Civil Engineering BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.45pm

Activity – Plan-tastic

As well as an overview of your subject area, you'll get interactive and take part in the online measurement of a construction floor plan.

Computer Games Programming BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Activity – Game On

Looking to break into the ever-expanding games industry? Try your hand at programming your very own JavaScript game.

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Take a crack at programming

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders where we'll teach you how to use the latest state-of-the-art industry software. We'll then challenge you to create your very own computer programme using our in-house "coder dojo" called Nooblab.

Computer Science BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Take a crack at programming

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders where we'll teach you how to use the latest state-of-the-art industry software. We'll then challenge you to create your very own computer programme using our in-house "coder dojo" called Nooblab.

Construction Project Management BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.45pm

Activity – Plan-tastic

As well as an overview of your subject area, you'll get interactive and take part in the online measurement of a construction floor plan.

Cyber Security and Digital Forensics BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Activity – Password Hack

After an overview of your subject area, you'll get hands on with an interactive password cracking activity.

Digital Media Technology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Activity – Tech Savvy

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders to evaluate the work of our current Digital Media.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering MEng/BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Virtual Tour

Get ready for an engaging journey into your subject area! Brace yourself for a taster lecture, giving you a sneak peek into what to expect in your first year. Alongside the mini-lecture, dive into hands-on lab activities where you'll estimate the number of lecturers needed to hold and pull apart a 60x12mm dogbone sample. Afterwards, buckle up for a virtual tour of our Roehampton Vale campus, exclusively dedicated to our cutting-edge engineering courses.

Electronic Products Engineering MEng/BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Virtual Tour

Get ready for an engaging journey into your subject area! Brace yourself for a taster lecture, giving you a sneak peek into what to expect in your first year. Alongside the mini-lecture, dive into hands-on lab activities where you'll estimate the number of lecturers needed to hold and pull apart a 60x12mm dogbone sample. Afterwards, buckle up for a virtual tour of our Roehampton Vale campus, exclusively dedicated to our cutting-edge engineering courses.

Environmental Science BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.45pm

Activity – Exploring Sustainability - Humans vs AI

Participants will engage with the concept of sustainability through sharing images/pictures from their home environment and using AI.

Environmental Science with Hazards and Disasters BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.45pm

Activity – Exploring Sustainability - Humans vs AI

Participants will engage with the concept of sustainability through sharing images/pictures from their home environment and using AI.

Geography BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.45pm

Activity – Exploring Sustainability - Humans vs AI

Participants will engage with the concept of sustainability through sharing images/pictures from their home environment and using AI.

Mechanical Engineering (Automotive Engineering) Meng/BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Virtual Tour

Get ready for an engaging journey into your subject area! Brace yourself for a taster lecture, giving you a sneak peek into what to expect in your first year. Alongside the mini-lecture, dive into hands-on lab activities where you'll estimate the number of lecturers needed to hold and pull apart a 60x12mm dogbone sample. Afterwards, buckle up for a virtual tour of our Roehampton Vale campus, exclusively dedicated to our cutting-edge engineering courses.

Mechanical Engineering Meng/BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Virtual Tour

Get ready for an engaging journey into your subject area! Brace yourself for a taster lecture, giving you a sneak peek into what to expect in your first year. Alongside the mini-lecture, dive into hands-on lab activities where you'll estimate the number of lecturers needed to hold and pull apart a 60x12mm dogbone sample. Afterwards, buckle up for a virtual tour of our Roehampton Vale campus, exclusively dedicated to our cutting-edge engineering courses.

Quantity Surveying BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.45pm

Activity – Plan-tastic

As well as an overview of your subject area, you'll get interactive and take part in the online measurement of a construction floor plan.

Robotic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence MEng/BEng (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Virtual Tour

Get ready for an engaging journey into your subject area! Brace yourself for a taster lecture, giving you a sneak peek into what to expect in your first year. Alongside the mini-lecture, dive into hands-on lab activities where you'll estimate the number of lecturers needed to hold and pull apart a 60x12mm dogbone sample. Afterwards, buckle up for a virtual tour of our Roehampton Vale campus, exclusively dedicated to our cutting-edge engineering courses.

Health, Science, Social Care and Education courses

Adult Nursing BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.15pm

Activity – Report to the Nurses' Station

Take part in our simulated skills learning event. You'll have the opportunity to chat to students and staff about the different fields of nursing you can go into and find out why Kingston is ranked top in England for General Nursing in the Guardian League Tables during this interactive session.

Biochemistry BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – What's your diagnosis

Take part in an interactive lab session where you will be taken through a case study of a patient with cancer and their journey from diagnosis, to surgery and aftercare. You will learn about a number of techniques used in the case to determine the outcome for this patient.

Biological Science (Genetics and Molecular Biology) BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – What's your diagnosis

Take part in an interactive lab session where you will be taken through a case study of a patient with cancer and their journey from diagnosis, to surgery and aftercare. You will learn about a number of techniques used in the case to determine the outcome for this patient.

Biological Science (Human Biology) BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – What's your diagnosis

Take part in an interactive lab session where you will be taken through a case study of a patient with cancer and their journey from diagnosis, to surgery and aftercare. You will learn about a number of techniques used in the case to determine the outcome for this patient.

Biological Science (Medical Biology) BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – What's your diagnosis

Take part in an interactive lab session where you will be taken through a case study of a patient with cancer and their journey from diagnosis, to surgery and aftercare. You will learn about a number of techniques used in the case to determine the outcome for this patient.

Biomedical Science BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – What's your diagnosis

Take part in an interactive lab session where you will be taken through a case study of a patient with cancer and their journey from diagnosis, to surgery and aftercare. You will learn about a number of techniques used in the case to determine the outcome for this patient.

Chemistry BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – The power of drugs

Explore how drugs are discovered and developed through our interactive session.

Children's Nursing BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.15pm

Activity – Report to the Nurses' Station

Take part in our simulated skills learning event. You'll have the opportunity to chat to students and staff about the different fields of nursing you can go into and find out why Kingston is ranked top in England for General Nursing in the Guardian League Tables during this interactive session.

Early Years FdA

Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Early Years and Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Practice

Join us to explore some practical skills and theory, and network with others who work in your sectors.

Early Years: Teaching and Learning BA (Hons) top-up

Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Early Years and Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Practice

Join us to explore some practical skills and theory, and network with others who work in your sectors.

Forensic Science BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Solve the crime in the crypt

Help solve a virtual crime! Analyse evidence left behind at the crime scene to figure out who dunnit!

Learning Disabilities Nursing BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.15pm

Activity – Report to the Nurses' Station

Take part in our simulated skills learning event. You'll have the opportunity to chat to students and staff about the different fields of nursing you can go into and find out why Kingston is ranked top in England for General Nursing in the Guardian League Tables during this interactive session.

Mental Health Nursing BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.15pm

Activity – Report to the Nurses' Station

Take part in our simulated skills learning event. You'll have the opportunity to chat to students and staff about the different fields of nursing you can go into and find out why Kingston is ranked top in England for General Nursing in the Guardian League Tables during this interactive session.

Midwifery with Registered Midwife BMid (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Call the Midwife!

Find out what life is really like as a midwifery student - straight from the source - our students! Learn top tips and insight from current students during this interactive session.

Midwifery with Registered Midwife BMid (Hons) for registered nurses

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Call the Midwife!

Find out what life is really like as a midwifery student - straight from the source - our students! Learn top tips and insight from current students during this interactive session.

Midwifery with Registered Midwife MMid

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Call the Midwife!

Find out what life is really like as a midwifery student - straight from the source - our students! Learn top tips and insight from current students during this interactive session.

Nursing Associate FdSc

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.15pm

Activity – Report to the Nurses' Station

Take part in our simulated skills learning event. You'll have the opportunity to chat to students and staff about the different fields of nursing you can go into and find out why Kingston is ranked top in England for General Nursing in the Guardian League Tables during this interactive session.

Nutrition BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Activity – Take a crack at nutrition

Healthy eating, portion size and cooking as a form of both art and science; discover the power of nutrition and exercise and its impact on the human body during our interactive food sensory and food science sessions. Explore healthy eating guidance and how it has changed over the years, learn about the importance of portion sizes and the science behind food prep.

Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences FdSc (Pre-Pharmacy)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – Pharmacy Practice

Join us for a fun session deciphering some of the common conditions/illnesses that you will be learning about during your pharmacy course.

Pharmaceutical Science BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – The power of drugs

Explore how drugs are discovered and developed through our interactive session.

Pharmaceutical Science MPharmSci (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – The power of drugs

Explore how drugs are discovered and developed through our interactive session.

Pharmaceutical Science with Regulatory Affairs BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – The power of drugs

Explore how drugs are discovered and developed through our interactive session.

Pharmacology BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – The power of drugs

Explore how drugs are discovered and developed through our interactive session.

Pharmacy MPharm (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – Pharmacy Practice

Join us for a fun session deciphering some of the common conditions/illnesses that you will be learning about during your pharmacy course.

Pharmacy MPharm (Hons) Extended degree with foundation year

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – Pharmacy Practice

Join us for a fun session deciphering some of the common conditions/illnesses that you will be learning about during your pharmacy course.

Primary Education (QTS) BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Be a teacher for the day

Take part in mini demonstrations of interactive teaching and learning, and find out more about becoming a primary teacher.

Social Work BA (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Activity – Ethical Dilemmas

Learn what it means to be ethical working in social work and with children and young people as part of this interactive activity. Share ideas with your future classmates and get a taste for what learning at Kingston is really like.

Special Education Needs and Inclusive Practice BA (Hons) top-up

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Early Years and Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Practice

Join us to explore some practical skills and theory, and network with others who work in your sectors.

Special Education Needs and Inclusive Practice FdA

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Early Years and Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Practice

Join us to explore some practical skills and theory, and network with others who work in your sectors.

Sport & Exercise Science (Coaching) BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Analyse your team's performance

Take part in an analysis of a pre-recorded sports match, you decide what could be done differently in order to achieve optimal results and a win!

Sport & Exercise Science (Nutrition) BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Analyse your team's performance

Take part in an analysis of a pre-recorded sports match, you decide what could be done differently in order to achieve optimal results and a win!

Sport & Exercise Science BSc (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Analyse your team's performance

Take part in an analysis of a pre-recorded sports match, you decide what could be done differently in order to achieve optimal results and a win!

Working with Children and Young People BA (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Activity – Ethical Dilemmas

Learn what it means to be ethical working in social work and with children and young people as part of this interactive activity. Share ideas with your future classmates and get a taste for what learning at Kingston is really like.

Kingston School of Art courses

Architecture BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – What's your projection?

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to dissect a household item which can be easily cut (such as an apple) in order to produce your own series of 2D and 3D drawings. You'll be using architectural projective drawing techniques that we'll teach you in this interactive session. Please be prepared on the day with paper, pencils, pens and your favourite everyday item that you can find around your home.

Creative and Cultural Industries: Art Direction BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Insights + Ideas = Visual Concept

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief. We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.

Creative and Cultural Industries: Design Marketing BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Insights + Ideas = Visual Concept

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief. We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.

Creative and Cultural Industries: Events and Experiences Design BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Insights + Ideas = Visual Concept

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to fulfil a creative brief. We'll learn about spatial and concept board techniques, along with visual concepting and how to provide creative insights as we work together to deliver a creative pitch.

Creative Writing BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Explore the potential of experimental writing

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders on a whistle stop tour through some of modern literature's more innovative methods and means. We'll challenge you to interpret form and sound, visual techniques and automatic writing. In this brief session we'll cover movements like Surrealism and OuLiPo.

Dance BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Get shaking!

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we put on our dancing shoes and get moving! Push your furniture to the side of the room and make sure you have plenty of space to move about as we learn some new moves together in the ultimate video dance-off! After we master our new steps, current students will lead us through a fun session choreographing a brand-new routine!

Drama BA (Hons) (including Dance and Drama)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity

This session is designed to give you a sneak peek into the exciting world of acting and help you make informed decisions about your future studies

English BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – What's on your 'must read' list?

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to think critically about what we study and why we study it; what we write, what we read and the meaning behind it. At Kingston, we offer an inclusive and innovative curriculum. We'll have a lively debate and discuss ideas to add to our course reading list, so be prepared to discuss your views on what you think everyone should read at some point in their life.

Fashion BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – Fashion in context

Join members of the staff team and fellow offer holders for a lively discussion on the context of fashion. We'll challenge you to think about what fashion is and the broader issues that surround it. We'll then participate in a series of short workshops to help put these questions into perspective and begin your journey as a competent fashion professional.

Fashion Promotion & Communications BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Communicating Fashion Stories

Storytelling is an important and creative method of fashion brand communication and can take many forms. Through this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to consider the role and purpose of storytelling in engaging audiences with a fashion brands' products, values and brand proposition.

Filmaking BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Scene and Heard

Join the Filmmaking team and your fellow offer holders. We challenge you to watch a scene from a film and recreate it to explore how visual language was used to deploy meaning.

Fine Art & Art History BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – What is Art History in the art school?

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders. We challenge you to look more deeply at how art theory and practice relate. We'll have a lively debate about Art History and Fine Art's engagement with theory and practice. Together we'll learn what it means to study both these topics alongside each other.

Fine Art BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – This is Fine Art!

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders for a lively discussion. We will challenge you to participate in a series of workshops prompting you to ask; 'What is an Image, Object, Photograph?'. You'll have the chance to support your answers with examples from contemporary and historical art as well as discussion and feedback from our course team and your future classmates.

Graphic Design BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Put yourself in a designer's shoes

Join our course team, current students and your fellow offer holders for a discussion about the range of Graphic Design practice. We'll challenge you to think and act like a designer in this lively chat prompted by a series of films and presentations from students developing work in: Social Design, Editorial Design, Typography, Photography, and Conceptual thinking.

Illustration Animation BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm

Activity – What's your backstory?

Join our course team, and your fellow offer holders as we dare you to think critically during this lively discussion on the process of drawing, character development and moving image techniques. You and your future classmates will answer prompts about a given character; we'll then switch your answers around and you'll be challenged to design a character based on someone else's description. See how your interpretation compares to someone else's vision!

Interior Design BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – The KID Talks

Join our course team, and your fellow offer holders for a series of presentations by current students, recent graduates and established alumni. Together we'll review the entire student experience from study to practice and give you the opportunity to ask a range of individuals with varying experience any burning questions you may have.

Journalism BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Fake News! Fake News! Read all about it!

Fake news, there's a lot of it about and sometimes it's hard to tell what's fake and what's not; but the truth is out there. So how do journalists sort fact from fiction? Come join us and play detective in our Journalism taster session and try your hand at spotting the signs and looking for clues that things might not be what they seem.

Media & Communications BA (Hons)

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Activity – Constructing the perfect you!

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to create the best online version of yourself. Our social media presence acts as our personal brand image. In this session we'll focus on how we construct an online version of ourselves in an attempt to make ourselves more attractive to potential friends, relationships and employers.

Media Skills BA (Hons) top up

  • Time: 5.00pm-6.00pm

Activity – Constructing the perfect you!

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we challenge you to create the best online version of yourself. Our social media presence acts as our personal brand image. In this session we'll focus on how we construct an online version of ourselves in an attempt to make ourselves more attractive to potential friends, relationships and employers.

Music Technology BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Building Beats from Everyday Objects

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders for an exciting workshop where we'll challenge you to create a high-quality sound sample and build beats from things found around your home. We'll explore a range of free tools available online, with the aim of helping you make better sounding music. This will be rounded up with a Q & A session giving you a chance to ask anything about studying music at Kingston University!

Photography BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Welcome to Photography at Kingston

We will share with you how the course is from the student perspective, viewing current coursework and photography, including an opportunity for Q&A with current students to ask all those questions that you need an answer - to cement your course choice! Staff are also on hand to showcase some alumni works and go into detail about the course and its structure.

Product & Furniture Design BA (Hons)

  • Time: 4.30pm-5.30pm

Activity – Design through making

Join our course team and your fellow offer holders as we explore some of the different maker based projects that have become the DNA of your course. We'll show you prototypes and processes we use including sand casting, ceramic slip casting and totally new manufacturing processes devised by our students!

Welcome to Kingston and support services Q&A

Find out about the Kingston experience through our lively welcome talk, followed by the opportunity to get your questions answered by our friendly support services staff. This will include members of our International and Student Recruitment teams.

On demand content

You can explore our Virtual Experience platform before the event, as well as during the virtual Offer Holder Event itself. On the platform, you can:

  • Explore our faculties with 360 guided tours.
  • Discover more about the support available to you whilst you're at Kingston.
  • Explore student life, accommodation and our best-of-both-worlds location.
  • Explore personalised content for your subject of interest.

On the day, you'll be able to access your Course Experience Session and the Welcome Talk and Support Services Q&A from the ‘Online Events' tab.

Any questions?

Please email srteam@kingston.ac.uk if you have any queries about the virtual Open Day and we'll be happy to help.