Costume Design and Practice with a Foundation Year - BA (Hons)

Birmingham City University

Foundation degree

In Birmingham

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Description

  • Type

    Foundation degree

  • Location

    Birmingham

  • Duration

    4 Years

The foundation course is an exciting step towards your chosen degree. It provides an opportunity to develop skills to equip you on your professional journey into the creative industries.

The programme encompasses elements of fashion design, fashion business and textile design degree routes. It provides a platform for you to share with and learn from others, while developing visual communication skills and processes. It will help you in building confidence and independence ready for the next stage of your degree.

We aim to excite, engage and challenge you, pushing you to develop into a capable student with a great fashion and textiles aesthetic as well as an enthusiasm to learn.

This four-year programme has been specifically designed to allow you to undertake additional level three study, to ensure you are successful on your chosen degree programme.

After successful completion of your foundation year, you will have the flexibility to switch (should you wish to change direction) onto a number of related undergraduate degree programmes within the School of Fashion and Textiles.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Birmingham (West Midlands)
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City North Campus, B42 2SU

Start date

On request

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. 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.

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.

UK students
80 UCAS tariff points.
At the point of entry, students will need Maths and English Language GCSEs grade 4 (C) or above.

LEVEL 2 QUALIFICATIONS
GCSE English Language at grade C/4 or above
GCSE Maths at grade C/4 or above
Must have been achieved at the point of enrolment

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Subjects

  • Costume Design
  • Design
  • Project
  • Textiles
  • Required
  • Learning
  • Support
  • Activities
  • Analysis
  • Debate

Course programme

Foundation Year

Your study will involve reading and analysis, discussion and debate, and practical activities which allow you to test and implement your skills and knowledge. In addition to attending classes you will be required to complete preparation and follow-up tasks and activities to support your learning.

In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
  • Fashion and Textile Skills and Processes
  • Trends Research
  • Lifestyle
  • Signature Project
Year 1

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
Year 2

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 Realisation40 credits
  • Critical Studies20 credits
  • Advanced Practice40 credits
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete at least 20 credits from the following list of OPTIONAL modules.
  • Work placement
  • Collaborative Practice
Year 3

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 Research
  • Major project
  • Independent Practice

Additional information

International Students - £13,200 per year

UCAS Code: W2WA

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