Fashion Textiles (including foundation year)
London Metropolitan University
UCAS Code: LM54 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
GCSE/National 4/National 5
You will be required to have an English Language GCSE at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent)
UCAS Tariff
at least one A level (or a minimum of 32 UCAS points from an equivalent Level 3 qualification, eg BTEC Subsidiary/National/BTEC Extended Diploma)
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Present a portfolio
About this course
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**Why study this course?**
Our Fashion Textiles (including foundation year) BA (Hons) is designed to help you build a portfolio and make more informed decisions about your work. The imaginative teaching approach will help you explore your aptitude and potential.
This course is an alternative route into higher education – ideal if you can’t meet the necessary requirements to enter the standard three-year course. On graduation you’ll also receive the same award and title as students on the three-year course.
**More about this course**
Our four-year degree in fashion textiles has a built-in preparatory year, which, through its exciting and imaginative approach to teaching, will help you discover your potential within different creative practices offered at the School of Art, Architecture and Design.
Your foundation year will be shared with others studying a degree with a foundation year at our School of Art, Architecture and Design and you’ll develop a range of skills that will be related to a range of our undergraduate programmes.
In the first term you’ll take on a range of short studio projects in visual imagery and making, followed by short-term projects in the second semester where you will be able to begin to specialise in textiles or further explore different creative practices. The individual project in your third term will be more closely aligned to your final BA award.
The foundation year will offer a balance of studio and workshop practice with lectures in critical and contextual studies, which will frame creative practice in historical, contemporary and cultural discourse. In those lectures and seminars you’ll find an emphasis on a thorough engagement with materials, forms and processes combine with intellectual skills, such as observation, analysis, discrimination, innovation and creativity. The programme will encourage personal research, exploration and development as a means to your bring individual interests and styles to creative practice.
The subsequent three years of your studies will be shared with students on the standard course. To find out more about the content you’ll study please visit our Fashion Textiles BA (Hons) course page.
Modules
Year 0 modules include:
Critical and Contextual Studies: Foundation
Formats
Project
Techniques
Year 1 modules include:
3D Design Principles
3D Visual Research and Communication
Critical and Contextual Studies 1 (3D)
Workshop Practice
Year 2 modules include:
3D Design
Critical and Contextual Studies 2 (3D)
Design Resolution
Materials, Technology and Markets
Year 3 modules include:
3D Project Design and Development
Critical and Contextual Studies 3: Dissertation (3D)
Major Project Realisation: Fashion Textiles
World of Work
Assessment methods
During the foundation year you’ll be assessed via project work, essays and an individual portfolio. In the subsequent three years of your degree we’ll assess you via formative, summative, diagnostic, peer and self-assessment methods, as well as your studio work, digital projects and workshops.
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