BA Textile Design

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme, students should have provided evidence of being able to:
3.1 understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge of the academic and professional competencies of Textile Design some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline;
3.2 deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry to inform textile design research and practice;
3.3 demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument through a written research report or dissertation;
3.4 describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship related to the management, technology and/or cultural understanding of textile design;
3.5 appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations in developing new concepts for future markets / situations;
3.6 make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources to inform both written and practice-led outcomes;
3.7 apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project specific to the programme discipline;
3.8 conform to professional boundaries and norms of textile design.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

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 ability top apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.