The programmes at LSAD aim to assist students to become confident, articulate, informed, creative and expressive practitioners, who will be capable of making significant contributions in their own particular fields of contemporary culture.

The Year One Art and Design (Common Entry) programme begins this process by providing students with the necessary stimuli to encourage self-confidence, self-motivation, and an appetite for knowledge, which will drive their creative practice. Year one recognises the wide variety of backgrounds from which it draws its students. It recognises ethnic, cultural and gender diversity which are the basis of individual originality. The programme provides students with the necessary skills, vocabulary and contextual knowledge to progress to 2nd year of honours degree studies in one of the following – Painting; Photography, Film, Video; Print Contemporary Practice; Sculpture & Combined Media; Animation & Motion Design; Ceramics; Fashion; Graphic Design Communication.

LSAD is the largest centre for Art and Design outside of Dublin and has an award-winning reputation both nationally and internationally.