Course title: 

BA (Hons) in Fashion and Textiles

Study mode: 

Full-time

Study level: 

Degree level study – Level 6

Duration: 

Three years BA (Hons)

Subject(s): 

Fashion and Textiles
Art & Design

Summary: 

This course is designed to produce graduates who are fully conversant with the creative, practical and with transferable skills necessary for employment in a demanding and competitive industry, and to integrate the vocational with the intellectual development of the individual graduate.

Details: 

The BA (Hons) Fashion and Textiles course enables you to negotiate a balance of study in relation to fashion design and development, textiles, knitwear and footwear design, recognising the need for flexibility and ensuring the students’ creative development is directed at producing a design portfolio and major project appropriate to your future aspirations. 

 
The course will seek to maintain well-established links with industry demonstrated by project involvement with major companies, work placement opportunities and sponsorship, and continued association with the British Fashion Council College Forum and Graduate Fashion Week – presented by River Island. 

Creative and practical studies are strongly underpinned by professional development and critical studies which reinforce the relationship which exists between theory and practice in relation to both the market place and the cultural context of design. 

 
Course Structure 
The Fashion and Textile courses provide a Year 1 (Level 4) entry point for students who either wish to study for 2 years to achieve a DipHE, or for 3 years to achieve BA (Hons). 
The course also provides Level 6 entry for students who have achieved a Higher National Diploma, Diploma of Higher Education or Foundation Degree.

 
 
Year 1 

 


• Visual Studies 
  
  
• Design Exploration – research, development and analysis 
  
  
• Design Realisation – creative skills/techniques and processes 
  
  
• Ancillary Studies – Textiles, Knitwear and Footwear 
  
  
• Professional Studies 
  
  
• Research Methodologies 
  

 


• Creative Solutions – creative skills development 
  
  
• Directional Study: Textiles, Knitwear, Footwear 
  
  
• Making Contact – live/group project with industry link (BA (Hons) 
  
  
• Integrated Assignment (DipHE) 
  
  
• Professional Development 
  
  
• Fashion Theory – discursive writing 
  

Career opportunities: 

Progression to post-graduate study, design and design management in fashion, textiles, knitwear and footwear, buying, merchandising, creative pattern-cutting.

Entry criteria: 

BA (Hons): 160 UCAS tariff points, DipHE: 80-120 UCAS tariff points, normally in a minimum of two subject areas. We expect a percentage of these to be at GCE A/VCE A Level. 
Points generated by GCE AS/VCE AS Level and Key Skills 
qualifications will be considered. 
IB points: BA (Hons) 29, DipHE 24-26 
BTEC National Diploma: BA (Hons): Merit, DipHE: Pass  
Art Foundation: Pass 
Access: Pass 
Key Skills points are strongly encouraged.

Location: 

Start dates: 

October.
October 2007

Department: 

Art and Design, London College of Music and Media.

UCAS Route A code: 

W232

UCAS Route B code: 

E232

Contact address: 

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Learning Advice Centre,
Thames Valley University, Main Teaching Centre,
St Mary’s Road,
Ealing,
W5 5RF

Telephone: 

Learning Advice Centre: +44 (0) 20 8579 5000

Fax: 

Learning Advice Centre: +44 (0) 20 8231 2056

E-mail: 

Learning Advice: learning.advice@tvu.ac.uk

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