Textile Design: Final Major Project

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how resolve your ideas effectively within a relevant professional context
• how to utilise contemporary design contexts to direct your outcomes
• how to select and use thorough, varied and relevant research towards the development of a final project
• how to apply appropriate textile concepts, techniques, methods and processes in the realisation of your project to a higher level

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• evaluate and challenge the conceptual and practical boundaries of your discipline
• apply methods of independent inquiry through the selection of research, materials, media and processes to explore your ideas
• apply a considered and critical approach in the development of ideas and experimentation into a resolved and coherent body of work
• use higher levels of analysis in the translation of your ideas to an intended context

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• present your work in a professional manner
• communicate ideas effectively to an advanced level using a variety of written and visual formats
• employ digital skills to an ambitious level to support your learning
• solve problems, study independently, manage your time effectively and produce work to set deadlines
• demonstrate innovative approaches to engagement with professional practice and employability opportunities
• identify, select and draw upon a wide range of subject specific, printed and electronic sources to inform and challenge your thinking

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• produce work demonstrating higher levels of refinement
• evidence the practical development of your work in an organised way
• identify an individual and ambitious approach to the discipline through the realisation of practical work to a professional standard
• resolve conceptual and technical problems in the production of design collections, prototype fabrics, paper and materials and where applicable, products
• apply a variety of practical skills effectively and professionally in the making and finalisation of your work
• work and use machines and equipment safely and professionally in the studios and workshops

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.