Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors (with Foundation Year)
Bath Spa University
Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors (with Foundation Year)
Course Summary
This is a four year degree with integrated foundation year.
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.
**Integrated Foundation Year**
Explore art and design through an integrated Foundation year before you progress onto your chosen BA (Hons) degree.
Evolve. Build your confidence, skills and knowledge in preparation for your undergraduate course.
Develop. Challenge perceptions, make, explore and investigate new territory through active projects.
Realise. Pursue your undergraduate specialism and benefit from scholarships at each level of your BA studies.
We want to ensure that you reach your full potential. That's why we've devised an intensive and experimental Foundation course that develops your art and design abilities in relation to contemporary practice, and introduces you to our exceptional facilities and staff.
You'll enhance your drawing skills, and explore the many materials and processes encountered in art and design practice. As the year progresses, you'll begin to specialise in your chosen discipline, acquiring advanced skills and knowledge in preparation for continued study.
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.
Foundation 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.
Year 3 modules: Professional Contexts; Developing Textile Design; Self Directed Project; Dissertation.
Course Details – Assessment Method
You're assessed at the end of each module via presentation of your work, be it experimental, developmental, journal-based, reflective analyses of talks and workshops, or documentation and analysis of exhibitions visited with the course.
Presented works may include journals / sketchbooks, material experiments / test samples, and digital files, in the form of USB, DVD and/or URLs.
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:
WW30
Institution code:
B20
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Foundation
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 CC including Grade C in Art & Design or related subjects preferred.
Grade Merit is preferred.
Extended Diploma grades Merit, Merit, Pass (MMP) 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
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.0
IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.
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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