BA Fashion Technology

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. demonstrate a familiarity with the common processing routes and terminology for converting fibres to yarn, to fabric and to finished article;
2. demonstrate an appreciation of the salient characteristics of common types of fibres, yarns, fabric constructions, colorants, seam and stitch types used in fashion article;
3. demonstrate a familiarity with simple laboratory practices used for the characterisation and assessment of textile and product properties in a fashion context;
4. demonstrate a basic knowledge and understanding of the design process;
5. demonstrate a familiarity with and basic ability to appreciate and interpret design within the social, cultural, historical, political and other appropriate context;
6. demonstrate a familiarity with the concept of sustainability within the context of fashion technology and basic ability to evaluate and interpret associated interactions;
7. demonstrate an ability to communicate the results of their work;
8. demonstrate an ability to present a structured and coherent simple argument;
9. demonstrate basic analytical skills;
10. demonstrate an ability to evaluate qualitative and quantitative data;
11. demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the discipline;
12. appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners;
13. 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:
1. qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment within the fashion industry with fashion brands, , the fashion supply chain or product development environment;
2. 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:
1. demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the fashion technology discipline;
2. work that covers a limited area of the fashion technology discipline;
3. demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies.