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BA Fashion Design Innovation

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll become a confident communicator with excellent presentation skills, as well as being an analytical problem-solver with strong research skills. You’ll have great visual, critical and commercial awareness, as well as an in-depth understanding of consumer profiles and trends in a fast-changing market.

Graduates have pursued a wide range of careers in the fashion industry including; design, pattern cutting, garment technology, buying, trend forecasting, PR and journalism. They’ve gone to work for companies including Abercrombie & Fitch, BMB Menswear, Esprit, George, New Look, Next, River Island, Ted Baker, Tommy Hilfiger, Warehouse, French Connection, H&M, Karen Millen, Dunhill International, Christopher Kane, Amanda Wakeley, Betty Jackson and Paul Smith.

General Eligibility

A-level: ABB including art/design subject or media. Excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking.

If you don’t have an art or design-related subject but you are taking Media Studies A-level, we may also consider your application based on a high grade at GCSE in Art/Design and a portfolio of recent and relevant work.

GCSE: 5/6 A-C (or 4+) including English.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Integrated Practice: Research and Design

  • Integrated Practice: Construction

  • Introduction to Textiles for Fashion

  • Digital Fashion

  • Design History, Design Futures

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Colour in the Design Process

  • Fashion Branding

  • The Fashion Industry

  • Introduction to Photography (Digital)

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules Integrated Experimentation:

Research and Design

Integrated Experimentation: Realisation

Strategic Fashion Management

Research Methods

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below):

20th Century Fashion History

Design for Sustainability

Photography (Digital)

Colour: Art and Science

Introduction to consumer behaviour and neuromarketing

3 Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • Fashion and Textile Innovation

  • Integrated Portfolio: Research and Analysis

  • Integrated Portfolio: Design & Content

  • Independent Study Dissertation

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Fashion Styling and Photography

  • Collaborative Marketing and Promotion

  • Time and the Image in Contemporary Art

  • Brand Communications

  • Contemporary Advertising

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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