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;