Final Project (Textile Design)

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate the ability to apply critical judgement and synthesise ideas to confirm your final project;
• utilise research to promote creativity and originality.
• apply advanced individual creativity, critical thinking and self-reflection to the realisation of your practice;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply sophisticated presentation skills to situate your practice in a professional context;
• demonstrate advanced project planning and organisational skills necessary to successfully complete a self-initiated project;
• effectively communicate your ideas to a target audience using a variety of media.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• a high level of practical skills with an individual specialist focus;
• current scholarship, debates, contexts and technologies in your subject to advance your work and locate it in professional and global contexts.
• an informed approach to the selection and utilisation of materials and techniques relevant to your practice;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate advanced textile design skills necessary to realise a creative portfolio of work through self-initiated personal study;
• demonstrate a broad contextual knowledge of the contemporary textile industry in relation to own practice.

• Realisation of a self-initiated Major Project
• Studio based learning
• Tutor-led reviews
• Portfolio reviews
• Confirmation of a self-initiated Major Project
• Exhibition

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• Tutor briefings
• Group tutorials
• One-to-one tutorials
• Formative feedback
• Creative and technical workshops
• Careers and employability seminars
• Exhibition planning

Learning activities include:

• Independent learning, including reflection on feedback
• Independent research
• Workshop-based learning
• Peer group learning
• Class discussion
• Optional study visits
• Class organisation and management of exhibition/s

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Textbooks.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Peer Group Feedback

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External