BA Fashion Technology

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects of fashion technology, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at the current boundaries of the academic discipline;
2. demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects of management in the context of the fashion industry, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at the current boundaries of the academic discipline;
3. demonstrate competent deployment of professional practices in the fields of fashion technology, design, and business and management in relation to the fashion industry;
4. demonstrate an ability to accurately deploy established techniques of analysis and enquiry relating to fashion technology, design, and management in relation to the fashion industry;
5. demonstrate a conceptual understanding of fashion technology, design, and management in relation to the fashion industry which enables the development and sustaining of an argument, and/or to solve problems;
6. demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables to describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and advanced scholarship in the fields of fashion technology, design, and management in relation to the fashion industry;
7. demonstrate an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in fashion technology, design, and management in relation to the fashion industry;
8. demonstrate an ability to make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
9. demonstrate an ability to manage their own learning;
10. demonstrate an ability to apply the methods and techniques acquired to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding;
11. demonstrate an ability to apply their knowledge in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project;
12. demonstrate an ability to critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete) to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to identify a solution(s) to a problem;
13. demonstrate an ability to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to both specialists and non-specialist audiences;
14. conform to professional boundaries and norms.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1. the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area of fashion technology;
2. the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
3. the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
4. the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
5. 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:
1. demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the fashion technology and management disciplines;
2. work that draws on a wide variety of material;
3. the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
4. evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
5. work that is typically both evaluative and creative.