BA Fashion Technology
Year 1
(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)
Learning outcomes
On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:- demonstrate a familiarity with the common processing routes and terminology for converting fibres to yarn, to fabric and to finished article;- demonstrate an appreciation of the salient characteristics of common types of fibres, yarns, fabric constructions, colorants, seam and stitch types used in fashion article;- demonstrate a familiarity with simple laboratory practices used for the characterisation and assessment of textile and product properties in a fashion context;- demonstrate a basic knowledge and understanding of the design process;- demonstrate a familiarity with and basic ability to appreciate and interpret design within the social, cultural, historical, political and other appropriate context;- demonstrate a familiarity with the concept of sustainability within the context of fashion technology and basic ability to evaluate and interpret associated interactions;- demonstrate an ability to communicate the results of their work;- demonstrate an ability to present a structured and coherent simple argument;- demonstrate basic analytical skills;- demonstrate an ability to evaluate qualitative and quantitative data;- demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the discipline;- appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners;- demonstrate an awareness of professional and disciplinary boundaries;
Transferable (key) skills
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment within the fashion industry with fashion brands, , the fashion supply chain or product development environment;- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
Assessment
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:- demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the fashion technology discipline;- work that covers a limited area of the fashion technology discipline;- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies;