This dynamic new course embraces culture, commerce and creativity and has been designed to answer the fashion industry’s demands around innovation and sustainability. Working in our extensive workshops and studios, you will experiment with materials and techniques, designing and making cutting-edge accessories, products and adornments. We will encourage you to express new ideas about sub-culture and identity, gender and politics, society and environmental concerns that will challenge precedent and drive change. Products and accessories contribute to around 50% of the fashion industry and the UK employs around 890,000 people in this sector, which generates billions for the economy. This is why, at Brighton, business studies is integrated throughout your course. You will be encouraged to work in response to consumer trends while considering issues such as globalisation, technology, distribution and social empowerment. When you graduate you will have the sophisticated design and craft skills required to work in the field – whether as an independent designer, at a fashion brand, or as an artist – and the commercial understanding of what is required to take a product to market.

Your first year is an introduction to Fashion Accessories Design. The modules encourage you to develop craft skills, explore cultural and commercial contexts whilst investigating approaches to designing and making through thematic briefs. You will have workshop and studio inductions and business studies lectures begin to prepare you for a professional career in the creative industries. Indicative modules include: Making, Materiality & Processes, Textile Rotation

 ,Why Make? What Sort of Maker am I?

, Market Research and Business in the Creative Industries

, The Culture of Design and Craft In your second year you take four compulsory modules and choose one option module. You will work on both group and individual projects. Design practice is integrated with historical and critical studies, so you'll explore critical, conceptual, ethical and environmental issues as well as the role of design within a social and cultural contexts. Structured projects combined with live and research-led projects contribute to the formulation of personal development plans. and research questions for the self-directed study and independent project work in year 3. Indicative modules include: Fashion Design and Market Awareness, Live and Engaged Making, Preparing for and Engaging with Business, The Shape of Things Your final year will see you undertake a self-directed supervised researched project which allows you to define your own area of research linked to the development of your studio practice. Business studies enables you to formulate and evaluate future work options, enhancing your future employability. The final module enables the development and synthesis of your fashion accessories design collection.

Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

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: W233

Institution code: B72

Campus Name: Brighton

Campus code:

The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

Art Foundation Diploma - Pass or above UAL Extended Diploma - Merit or above

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Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.5	IELTS 6.5 overall, with 6.0 in writing and a minimum of 5.5 in the other elements.Or equivalent English Language qualification.

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

Student satisfaction : 62%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 85%

Go onto work and study: 95%

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
EU	13842.0	Year 1
International	13842.0	Year 1

The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2022-23. Please note that the £13,873 international fee is for classroom based courses. For lab based courses a higher fee of £14,892 applies. EU students will be charged international fees unless they have settled status awarded by the UK Government's Settlement Scheme. Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK/EU students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee. The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take. If your course includes a sandwich year option you will pay a reduced fee during this year; £1,370 for home students and £2,120 for international students. All fees should be checked against the information listed on the course page on our website: www.brighton.ac.uk/courses as specific details will be included there. You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in your fees, can be found on our website.

Mithras House
Lewes Road
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Brighton
BN2 4AT