Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors (Professional Placement Year)
Bath Spa University
Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors (Professional Placement Year)
Course Summary
A dynamic and demanding fashion and textile design degree for the designers and innovators of the future.
- Engage with professionals through 'live' industry briefs and placement opportunities in the UK and abroad.
- Immerse yourself in our strong studio culture and visit specialists, trade fairs, exhibitions and museums.
- Our graduates have been employed by companies including Selfridges, Joules and Anthropologie.
We provide ambitious students with a dynamic practical and theoretical design education, supported by industry networks and directed towards the development of a creative career or advanced research in the textile discipline.
Develop your creativity within the broad and complex field of traditional and contemporary textile design, through intellectual enquiry combined with aesthetic sensibility. The course is supported by drawing workshops and underpinned with comprehensive knowledge of digital textile printing technologies.
**More about the Professional Placement Year**
A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where a student undertakes a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between the students' second and third years of undergraduate study. Students can engage in up to 3 placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) themselves with support from the Careers and Employability Team.
Course Details - Modules
Modules are self-standing units of study, and you earn credits when you successfully complete them. As a full-time student you will take 120 credits each year. Year 1 modules: Drawing / Visual Research / Digital Media; Contextual Studies Design Theory; Colour, Yarn, Fabric and Materials; Constructed Textiles; Pattern, Embellishment and Manipulation; Professional Context / Lecture series. Year 2 modules: Professional Context/Presentation Skills; Contextual Studies; Developing a Specialism; Defining your Identity; Styling and Display. Final Year modules: Professional Contexts; Developing Textile Design; Self Directed Project; Dissertation.
Course Details – Assessment Method
The module assessments demonstrate how well students have performed in tackling the intended learning outcomes, and is measured against grade criteria.
Throughout the module students will receive formative feedback through individual and/or group tutorials, peer seminar sessions and group critiques. In many cases this feedback is received both verbally and in a written format.
Students are informed about the ways that marks/grades and feedback are provided by the marking tutor(s), and they receive written feedback on learning achievements against the assessment criteria for a module assignment.
The feedback aims to enable students to see how to improve or develop particular aspects of their work, and students receive the summative feedback along with the marks within three weeks of the completed module submission date.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
WW29
Institution code:
B20
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Year 2
Year 4
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Grades BBC-CCC including Grade C in Art & Design or related subjects preferred.
Grade Merit is preferred.
typical offers for applicants with Access to HE will be the Access to HE Diploma or Access to HE Certificate (60 credits, 45 of which must be Level 3, including 30 at merit or higher) in addition to other qualifications or evidence of experience in Art & Design or Textiles.
A minimum of 27 points will be required in addition to a HL Art subject at grade 6 and evidence of further experience in Art & Design or Textiles.
Extended Diploma grades Distinction, Merit, Merit (DMM) in a related subject in addition to other qualifications or evidence of experience in Art & Design or Textiles.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
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AdditionalDetails
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.
Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
68%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
74%
Go onto work and study:
84%
Fees and funding
EU
9250.0
Year 1
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Additional study visit fees for this course for 2020-21 entry will be £50, payable during each of the three years of study.
Provider information
Newton Park
Newton St Loe
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Bath
BA2 9BN
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