BA Textile Design
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: - 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; - deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry to inform textile design research and practice;- demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument through a written research report or dissertation; - describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship related to the management, technology and/or cultural understanding of textile design; - appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations in developing new concepts for future markets / situations; - make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources to inform both written and practice-led outcomes; - apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project specific to the programme discipline; - 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 too 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.