BA Textile Design (Industrial)

Year 3

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- understand a work environment in the design sector, including how the environment functions and their contribution to it
- understand and apply work-based learning to other areas of personal development, including academic performance
- demonstrate high-level transferable skills including communication (written and oral), self motivation, initiative, organisation and time management, objective setting, negotiating and team working, especially in a design environment
- ability to decide, plan and compete in the job market, specifically but not exclusively in the area of design

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the key skills necessary for employment in the design sector
- 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 different audiences; - the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

Assessment

Students are assessed on the basis of a portfolio, a reflective log, reports from work-based supervisors and 3 display boards which capture their experience. This is a pass or fail module.