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BA (Hons) Fashion and Textile Design

University of Portsmouth ( Navitas ), United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Bring your creative and original ideas to life on our 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.

Using innovative research methods, you’ll be able to deliver authentic, imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of what fashion and textile design mean now and in the future.

General Eligibility

Typical offers

Levels – BBB–BBC

UCAS points – 112-120 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, or equivalent (calculate your UCAS points)

T levels – Merit

BTECs (Extended Diplomas) – DDM–DMM

International Baccalaureate – 25

Part Time Work Details

Twenty hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Core modules:

  • Core Skills Fashion and Textiles

  • Design Fundamentals

  • Digital Designing for Fashion and Textiles

  • Introduction to Visual Culture (Fashion and Textile Design)

2 Year 2

Core modules:

  • Designer Led Brief

  • Enterprise and Industry: Development

  • Enterprise and Industry: Research

  • Enterprise and Industry: Resolution

Optional modules:

  • Art, Design, and Performance Study Exchange

  • Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice

  • Exploratory Practice

  • Modern Foreign Language

  • Professional Experience

  • Student Enterprise

  • Visual Culture: Cult, Taste and Collecting

  • Visual Culture: Performing Identity

  • Visual Culture: Technology and the Image

  • Visual Culture: The Body in Practice

3 Year 3

Core modules:

  • Major Project: Concept

  • Major Project: Development

  • Major Project: Promotion

  • Major Project: Resolution

  • Portfolio

Optional modules:

  • Visual Culture: Dissertation

  • Visual Culture: Research Project

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69
English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.

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