BA (Hons) Art and Design: Fashion Textiles
Programme Structure
Year One
Core Modules
- Introduction to Fashion & Textiles Processes
- Introducing practical skills and visual language, which create the foundations for future development in the subject pathway
- Introduction to Personal Planning
- Introduction to the learning environment. Development of analytical skills and critical thinking. Understanding of the learning process and requirements
- Investigation of Fashion & Textiles Practise
- A practical design project focusing on research, design, production and presentation of ideas for fashion and textiles
- Critical & Contextual Research
- Introduction to the wide range of contexts that have a bearing on the conception, production and consumption of contemporary art, design and craft
Support Modules (Students select one each semester)
- Introduction to Fashion Construction
- Introduction to Textile Applications
- Introduction to Visual Language
- Introduction to 3D Digital Communication
- Illustration with Printmaking
- Advertising with Photography
- Introduction to 3D Construction
- Sculptural Processes
- Fine Art with Autographic Expression
Year Two
Core Modules
- Development of Fashion & Textile Processes
- Building on year one, students select and work on a variety of competition briefs depending on their emerging direction
- Personal Development Planning
- An opportunity to reflect on individual learning and the development of critical thinking skills. Developing an understanding and confidence in fashion and textiles career direction
- Confirmation of Fashion & Textile Practise
- A larger practical project developing research, concepts and product realisation
- Developmental Research
- Focusing on the development of personal direction, through contextualisation of own practise in relation to current theory and debates
Support Modules (Students select one each semester)
- Development of Textile Boundaries
- Development of Fashion Construction
- Development of Visual Language