**Overview** Bring your creative and original ideas to life on this multi-award-winning Fashion and Textile Design degree course. You'll develop your innovation, self-awareness, and critical thinking via our teaching approach – which integrates sustainable and ethical design principles, focuses on your unique strengths, and shapes you into a confident and cultured professional. You'll also develop communication, leadership, and collaboration skills through exchange and enterprise projects, and you’ll build a deep knowledge of traditional and digital making skills using industry-level facilities. With innovative research methods, you’ll be able to deliver authentic, imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of what fashion and textile design means now and in the future. **What you'll experience** On this Fashion and Textile degree course, you’ll: - Immerse yourself in the latest trends, cultures, techniques and technologies in the fashion and textile industry - Have the opportunity to apply your creative skills to designing sustainable fashion - Learn design methods including drawing techniques, pattern-cutting, fashion illustration, silkscreen and digital printing, embroidery and constructed textiles - Use the professional software you’ll use in your career to bring your digital designs to life, including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Lectra Kaledo - Make use of our modern facilities and equipment, which include industrial sewing machines, laser cutting equipment, and Lectra Modaris, for digital pattern making with 3D prototyping - Build your professional network with international guest lecturers fashion industry professionals, like Julian Roberts, Niccolo Casas and Shingo Sato You can also: - Set up your own label or fashion and textile company as part of your studies - Exhibit your work at the University’s annual graduate shows and Graduate Fashion Week showcases in London **Careers and opportunities** Our collaborative and project-orientated course will give you the skills to become highly employable. 100% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of graduating – across industry, in public sector, or through starting their own companies. You'll also get support from our Careers and Employability service for up to 5 years after you graduate. You could work in areas such as: - fashion, textile or accessories design - trend prediction - buying - visual merchandising - teaching or lecturing - journalism or writing Previous students have gone on to work for some of the biggest names in fashion, such as: - Ralph Lauren - Hugo Boss - Matthew Williamson Others have secured careers working within major retailers including River Island, Fat Face, and Marks and Spencer. Previous students on this course have also set up their own fashion and textile labels. For example: - Sunny Williams set up his label, House of Sunny, in 2011 and has developed minimal, androgynous aesthetic womenswear, which sells internationally and is stocked by ASOS - Nikki Strange created her own-name line for Marks and Spencer in 2015 and also works as a freelance textile designer and visiting lecturer After you leave the University, you can get help, advice and support for up to 5 years from our Careers and Employability service as you advance in your career.

**Year 1 core modules:** Core Skills: Fashion and Textiles (40 credits); Design Fundamentals (40 credits); Digital Designing for Fashion and Textiles (20 credits); Introduction to Visual Culture (20 credits) | ** Year 2 core modules [all worth 20 credits each]:** Designer-Led Brief; Enterprise and Industry: Practice; Enterprise and Industry: Experience; Enterprise and Industry: Research | **Year 2 optional modules [unless otherwise stated, all worth 20 credits each]:** Art, Design and Performance Study Exchange (60 credits); Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice; Exploratory Practice; Professional Experience; Student Enterprise; Visual Culture: Cult, Taste and Collecting; Visual Culture: Performing Identity; Visual Culture: Technology and the Image; Visual Culture: Visions of the body | ** Year 3 core modules [all worth 20 credits each]:** Major Project: Concept; Major Project: Development; Major Project: Promotion; Major Project: Resolution; Portfolio | **Year 3 optional modules [all worth 20 credits each]:** Visual Culture: Dissertation; Visual Culture: Research Project

You’ll be assessed through: - research and developmental work - industry set briefs/live competitions - fashion and/or textile collections - digital designs and design boards - making and construction skills - group work - written essays or reports You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark. You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future. The way you’re assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows: - Year 1 students: 100% by coursework - Year 2 students: 100% by coursework - Year 3 students: 100% by coursework

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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.

Course code: W990

Institution code: P80

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The following entry points are available for this course:

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We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.

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Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
PTE Academic	54.0	An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)	79.0	79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing.
Cambridge English Advanced		Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Cambridge English Proficiency		Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Trinity ISE		Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components

English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

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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
Channel Islands	9250.0	Year 1
Republic of Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
International	16200.0	Year 1

Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship Placement Year and Year abroad: UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £925 | EU – £925 (including Transition Scholarship)| International (Non-EU) – £1,800. Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice. Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation. For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/ug-tuition-fees

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