BA Textile Design

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:

- Use drawing as a vehicle to analyse, record and respond to observation and other sources
- Demonstrate a familiarity with the relationship between materials, processes and concepts in the design process
- Demonstrate a familiarity of the context within which their practice operates.
- Demonstrate simple repeat patterns suitable for textile application
- Develop the formation of a design collection
- Work safely and competently in a given textile design workshop environment

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.
Development of an enquiring, analytical and creative approach to visual culture - Develop critical self-awareness.
- Develops a range of cognitive abilities related to the aesthetic and social contexts of human experience.

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.