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Brighton and Hove's premiere creative college offering career changing full and part-time vocational courses in one of the south east's most desirable locations.

International E-Business

Two year, HND equivalent course, offers strategic creative marketing training. The Hove College Advanced Diploma in Creative Communications combines a huge range of design, creative and marketing skills with a strong business-led focus. It is an ideal career preparation for someone who wants to work in a strategic role in almost any media sector - from marketing, advertising and design to public relations, journalism and new media.
This two year programme is a balanced mix of both practical and theoretical training, offering tuition in everything from Apple Mac based Adobe Photoshop electronic image manipulation through to study of strategic business theory.
The programme is HND equivalent in level, yet our small class sizes combined with College's excellent facilities and uniquely supportive environment enable us to offer flexible entry criteria to talented candidates who lack the A-levels necessary for conventional degree admission.

Internet Marketing

Our complete creative training, all packed into a two year HND equivalent course.
The Digital Design Advanced Diploma combines a broad base of hands-on design skills wuth the core strategic marketing knowledge to underpin it. The course is a perfect base from which to launch a career in a sector where artistic talent on its own is simply not enough and only those with the ability to design work that effectively conveys the desired commercial message will succeed.
As with all Hove College programmes training is focused exclusively on the real world of the commercial media environment. Actual case studies and project work are fundemental parts of each course module and the training is delivered by lectures who themselves each have extensive career experience in the field. The programme covers everything from professional graphic design using tools such as Photoshop, InDesign and Flash to the underpinning theory of strategic marketing practice. Highly valuable specialist skills such as public relations techniques and copywriting are also taught.

Creative Communications

The perfect stepping-stone to your career as an Internet webmaster.
The course combines the acquisition of essential strategic e-Marketing theory with the hands-on web design skills to actually make it effective in application.
The course is practically focused and is taught by a combination of experienced business practitioners and professional web designers familiar with the real-life commercial challenges you will face working within this fast-moving sector.
The theory element covers the principles of marketing as specifically applied to the unique characteristics of the web environment. This includes issues of e-Market segmentation, the Google phenomenon and e-Commerce law. The hands-on element includes training in everything from simple web page design to sophisticated Flash-based graphics.

Digital Design

Core business and marketing strategic theory for Internet-driven commercial success.
E-business is a sector that is rapidly coming of age. Each year the number and value of commercial transactions carried out via the web skyrockets. It is no exaggeration to say that over the next ten years the business world will be transformed.
The e-Business Diploma combines a comprehensive grounding in general business studies with specially focused training in the new skills required to harness the unique potential of the web.
Specialist subjects covered include Marketing, e-Commerce, Internet Marketing; in addition, general business modules in Business Law, Economics, Business Accounting, Business Statistics and Business Practice as well as Effective Business Communciation and Management Reporting systems prviding a thorough underpinning in business practice.

Web Design

Training in the new techniques for effective marketing with the world wide web.
This well-balanced and forward-looking course is based on modern thinking and the lessons of practical application in what is a fast evolving business environment.
The world of Internet Marketing is expanding rapidly, with online business predicted to grow massively over the next few years. New e-Marketing concepts and tools emerge almost daily as ever improving technology places greater scope into the hands of the marketeer.
Course delegates will learn the unique principles which differentiate the Internet business world and how to apply new techniques to generate valuable trade through this medium of the future.

Full and part-time

Full or part-time, from certificate to Bachelor's Degree. Hove College offers flexible study options from evening classes and short 18 week programmes right up to university degrees.

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Brighton: a creative hub

The seaside city of Brighton & Hove is one of the UK's creative centres, home to artists, designers and creatives. Hove College is in the heart of Hove, one of the most attractive parts of the city.

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Students' work

Check out some of our recent graduate students work. Students on our programmes get real hands-on experience of creative design software on professional Apple Mac systems.

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