Costume Design and Practice - BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Birmingham
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Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Birmingham
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Duration
3 Years
Develop a range of career-specific skills within costume design and practice in a city culturally rich with dance, theatre and the creative arts. You will develop a range of skills applicable to a career within costume design and practice. Birmingham is a city culturally rich with dance, theatre and the creative arts, and collaboration with many of these creative partners is encouraged and embedded within course content. Staff delivering the course are both practitioners and researchers who continue to contribute to their discipline.
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About this course
Our BA Hons Costume Design and Practice degree course will prepare you as a designer practitioner within a breadth of performance genres.
Our graduates typically go on to professional roles in fashion design, womenswear, menswear, children’s wear, sportswear, garment technology, styling, trend forecasting, graphic design, visual merchandising, buying, PR, costume making, and event management.
The course will prepare you as a designer practitioner within a breadth of performance genres, and you will develop a range of skills applicable to a career within costume design and practice.
112 UCAS tariff points from A/AS Level with a minimum of 2 A Levels.
Applications taken to the next stage must attend a 'portfolio review' in person in order to receive offer.
Staff are experienced costume practitioners that contribute and develop content within the course with passion and enthusiasm.
We have a history of costume design going back to the early twentieth century.
We have established links to international, national and regional theatre companies, including Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
We have an internationally significant archive of historical dress to study and use within your practice.
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Subjects
- Staff
- Costume Design
- Theatre
- Design
- Industry
- Dance
- Costume construction
- Creative Direction
- Creative Arts
- Designer Practitioner
- Bespoke Fitting
- Costume Practitioners
- Creative realisation
- Nurturing Environment
Course programme
In your first year you are introduced to a broad range of fashion studies theory and technical skills, building a sound base for further study in years two and three.
You will learn design skills such as CAD, live fashion drawing, fashion illustration, fashion flats, styling and photoshoots. Alongside this, you will gain theoretical skills, such as contextual studies in fashion and related art and design.
You will also gain the skills that you need to solve practical problems and create presentations.
BA (Hons) Fashion Design, BA (Hons) Costume Design and Practice and BA (Hons) Garment Technology have a shared first year of study.
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
- Design, Development and Realisation
- Individual Aesthetic
- Creative Direction
- Context and Theory
In your second year, you will develop more advanced research, design development, presentation and technical skills, with a view to gaining work experience that will enhance your skills and employability upon graduation.
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 100 credits):
- Creative Realisation
- Critical Studies
- Advanced Practice
- Work Placement
- Collaborative Practice
During your final year of study you will focus on your own individual area of practise. You will collaborate within industry on a live brief to produce costume designs, and final outcomes for your chosen performance genre. Developing skills specific to costume industry through these live collaborations within a supportive, nurturing environment.
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
- Independent Project Research20 credits
- Major Project40 credits
- Independent Practice
Additional information
£13,200 per year
Sandwich - 4 years
UCAS Code: W2W4
Costume Design and Practice - BA (Hons)
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Master Onlinehigher than £ 9000 -
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