Partner Details

Westford University College

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Bachelor of Arts with Honours - BAH
Alternative Exit

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

F2F-WUC-SEP

Educational Aims of the Course

To provide a distinctive, relevant, coherent and intellectually challenging learning experience that produces proactive confident students. To instil students with enthusiasm, imagination and risk taking in a range of practical and theoretical skills exploring traditional and new methodologies. To provide students with a variety of design perspectives to advance individual and innovative responses to visual, practical and conceptual design practice. To equip graduates with the necessary practical skills and breadth of knowledge that are flexible and transferable for successful employment, postgraduate study and life-long learning. To support students' learning through diverse modes of delivery and assessment methods. To enhance and support the student learning experience through staff scholarship and research. To foster links with local, national and international creative industries to underpin and contextualise the students knowledge and personal development planning. To encourage students to engage with the development of employability skills by completing a self-awareness statement.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

All studio based modules start with a lecture or overview and followed by studio practice, one to one, seminar workshops or group critiques. Research and translation skills are embedded into contextual and studio based modules to support student- led investigation into a variety of historical, cultural and critical contexts within art and design. Contextual studies modules work alongside and in conjunction with studio practice modules to allow students to form synergies between topics and core modules. Personal development planning (PDP) is embedded into one module for each year group and is designed to build on research and engagement with the creative industries to support individual preparation for professional practice. Technology and skills are intrinsically linked and embedded in key core modules to expose students to innovation in technology as well as building on traditional well-established skill sets. Contextual studies: Knowledge and understanding is assessed through a variety of briefs from report writing and essays to research project. Portfolio: Outputs for portfolio work from end of year submission of completed practical projects. Portfolio: Portfolio submissions for PDP (C.V, cover letters, work placement reports, market reports, reflective work and digital platforms). Formative and summative assessment points will be embedded through each module with opportunities for weekly discussion through one to one tutorials, small group seminars and group critiques. All students will be assigned a personal tutor who will be responsible for having an overview of their academic development.

Opportunities for work related learning

Students have the opportunity to engage in live briefs with fashion and associated industries throughout their year of studies and are able to undertake short placements where relevant and can be accommodated by the programme.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

The programme is taught and assessed within the Academic Framework The programme is a duration of one year and is a full-time course, leading to the degree award of BA (Hons). The BA Fashion: Design and Communication programme has 2 pathways fashion design and fashion communication. Students are able to … For more content click the Read More button below.

Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations

A variance to the Academic Framework Regulations to allow the 40 credit module 6505WFDC Studio Project/s was approved on 9 March 2023.

Entry Requirements

Alternative qualifications considered

Extra Entry Requirements

English language certificate of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent. English courses are available before and during the course for those students who need to improve their English in order to continue studying with us.

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH25-01) creative arts and design