BA Fashion Design

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 basic concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of fashion design and design theory i.e.

-research appropriate fashion market levels and brands
-evaluate qualitative and/or quantitative data;
-be able to communicate the results of their work through 2D visual presentation and creative writing;
-present a structured and coherent intellectual argument;
-demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the production of 2D and 3D fashion product;
-appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners;
-demonstrate an awareness of professional and disciplinary boundaries;
-operate industrial manufacturing machinery /equipment efficiently and safely;
-demonstrate efficient time management skills.

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 related to the subject area(s) studied;
- 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 discipline;
- work that covers a restricted area of the discipline;
- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies.