BA (Hons) Textile Design (With Foundation Year)

This foundation year course will provide you with the skills you need to move onto the BA course. With an industry looking towards the future of textiles, we consider all aspects of theory and design that drive the innovation of textiles such as the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal climate that will shape our student’s thinking towards being future pioneers of tomorrow’s world. Textiles at UEL seek to go beyond the surface of well-used methods such as print and surface design and encourages our students to look towards the future with new and exciting digital processes and back again at the innovative fabrications of heritage crafts from the past. The course aims to provide you with a rich learning experience in applied textiles, which will focus on highly creative design solutions for fashion, interiors, and the home. You will have the opportunity to embrace fashion and textile futures, new materials, and technical innovations in the production of innovative applied textiles across all mediums. In addition, sustainability and ethics are at the heart of all the modules you will study.

Foundation Year(If Required)

• Professional Life (Mental Wealth) (Core)
• Art & Design Workshops, Processes & Skills (Core)
• Art & Design Studio Practice & Portfolio (Core)
• Art & Design Specialist Workshops, Processes & Skills (Core)
• Art & Design Specialist Studio Practice & Portfolio (Core)
• Art & Design Contextual Studies (Core)

Year 1

• Technical Skills & Innovation (Core)
• Fashion Practice (Core)
• Fashion Contexts and Research (Core)
• Fashion Process (Core)
• Fashion Enterprise (Core)
• Business of Fashion 1 (Core)

Year 2

• Technical Applications (Core)
• Fashion Enterprise 2 (Core)
• Creative Fashion Practice (Core)
• Business of Fashion 2 (Core)
• Process and Identity (Core)
• Theory of Fashion (Core)

This course offers the opportunity for year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organization, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

Year 3

• Applied Innovation (Core)
• Fashion Enterprise 3 (Core)
• Advanced Fashion Practice (Core)
• Business of Fashion 3 (Core)
• Final Major Project Theoretical Identity (Core)
• Final Major Project Realisation (Core)

Employability

Career opportunities include:

• Colour, Materials, Finish (CMF) Designer
• Assistant Designer
• Textiles Designer
• Fashion Textiles Designer
• Interior Designer
• Material and Sample Developer
• Experiential Design Developer
• Specialist Material Designer
• Technical Director of Raw Material