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BA (Hons) Fashion Design

University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Bring your creative and original ideas to life on our multi-award-winning Fashion 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 design means now and in the future.

General Eligibility

  • A levels – BBB–BBC

  • UCAS points – 112-120 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, or equivalent All shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend an interview with a portfolio of work

  • T-levels – Merit

  • BTECs (Extended Diplomas) – DDM–DMM

  • International Baccalaureate – 25

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Placement year

Between your second and third years, you can study abroad, or do a paid or self-employed work placement. You'll get a taste of another culture or apply your knowledge and skills to professional practice—both of which will enrich your overall studying experience and CV.

You'll have to take one of these optional modules to complete your sandwich year.

  • CCI Work Placement – Full Year

  • CCI Self-Employed Placement – Full Year

  • CCI Placement Plus – Full Year

  • Art, Design, and Performance Study Abroad – Full Year

  • Art, Design, and Performance Study Abroad – Half Year

2 Year 1

Core modules in this year include:

  • Core Skills Fashion and Textiles 

  • Design Fundamentals 

  • Digital Designing for Fashion and Textiles

  • Introduction to Visual Culture (Fashion and Textile Design)

3 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

4 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

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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