BA Fashion Technology

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. identify and employ appropriate sources of information, and evaluate their reliability and quality;
2. demonstrate an ability to plan an investigation, including critically evaluate the appropriateness of different methods of enquiry, and identify , appreciate and employ the most appropriate method of enquiry;
3. use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;
4. demonstrate a broad understanding of the an analysis of data and information;
5. demonstrate practical competency in using a range of established techniques in the field of fashion technology;
6. demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the relationships and interconnectedness between textile technology, design, and management in the context of the fashion industry, and of the way these have evolved;
7. demonstrate an ability to apply the underlying concepts and principles underpinning fashion product development outside the context in which they were first studied;
8. an ability to apply their knowledge in proposing solutions to problems relating to fashion technology, design, and management;
9. effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and non-specialist audiences and deploy key communication techniques established in the field of fashion technology when appropriate;
10. adjust to professional and disciplinary boundaries;
11. demonstrate an understanding of the limits of their knowledge, and how this influences analyses and interpretations based on that knowledge.

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;
3. critical analysis and decision making.

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 ability to apply a broad range of aspects and competencies of the fashion technology discipline to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
2. work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
3. demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the fashion technology discipline;
4. the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.