Fashion and Textiles Design – (M.A.)

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Objectives

* Challenge traditional and contemporary uses of fashion and textiles, as well as creating the opportunity to promote new approaches and processes in fashion and textiles
* Provide students with the knowledge, skills and competencies to meet the diverse demands of the fashion and textile industries
* Encourage, in inter-disciplinary projects, creative collaborations between subject areas to foster innovation
* Develop an inter-disciplinary understanding of key issues relating to the design, management and innovation in fashion and textiles
* Develop competent and confident professionals for the global fashion and textiles industries with an in-depth understanding of the creative process and its management in international and local contexts.

Structure

Students negotiate with their supervisor to concentrate on an appropriate area of study to acquire knowledge and expertise in an area of fashion and textiles that supports their individual project intended outcome. The areas available across the School reflect the breadth of expertise relevant to fashion and textiles.

Semester 1
* Design context
* Creative and Critical Thinking: Research principles
* Management Studies in Design
* Fashion and Textile Practice and Expertise

Semester 2
* Design Technologies and Textiles Futures
* Reflective Practice to plan the agreed course of study
* Industrial placement
* Fashion and Textile Practice and Expertise

Semester 3
* Masters Project: Design Collection

Assessment methods

Students are assessed through a combination of practical and written course work, examinations and the Masters project. Emphasis is placed on rigorous academic standards as well as acquiring and developing a range of transferable industry skills and individual creative development. Assessment exercises can therefore include making effective visual and oral presentations, writing reports and as well as team and group work.