Fashion and Textiles MA

During this stage you will explore contemporary debates and experimentation, as well as appraising your practice strengths and potential.

You will choose modules such as:

Fashion and Textiles Practices (40 credits)

During this double module you will explore, critically review, and develop your personal practice and methodologies. By examining your interests, philosophical concerns, and ethical stance as a designer, you will develop a sophisticated knowledge of fashion and/or textile design as a cultural entity and its significance to society.

Visual Culture: Debates (20 credits)

The module takes as its starting point selected academic texts, which will be used for initiating debate. Through them, you will stimulate and expand your knowledge and understanding of visual culture.

This process of critical scrutiny and debate will provide you with a platform for developing your scholarly understanding of concepts such as ideology, identity, ethics, and aesthetics, and an appreciation of how these might be associated with issues relating to gender, globalisation, sustainability, taste, and consumer culture. This module will encourage you to examine your own practice in relation to the ideas and contrasting theories you have studied.

This stage will see you developing a major in-depth personal project and research for a supporting dissertation.

You will choose modules such as:

Fashion and Textiles Concepts (40 credits)

This double module represents the concept phase of the body of work that will form your masters practice project. You will extensively research and explore your individual area of focus in your practice.

Visual Culture: Dissertation (20 credits)

You will plan a personal programme of research on a negotiated topic relevant to your personal practice. Your topic will be carefully selected and honed to ensure that it successfully informs your practice. The individual methodologies you develop during this module will inform your practice based final project. You will develop a coherent argument, informed by your research, which will drive the structure and logic of your dissertation.

This stage involves the realisation, testing, and evaluation of your masters practice project and related dissertation.

You will choose modules such as:

Fashion and Textiles Realisation (60 credits)

This triple module is the culmination of your masters practice project. It will enable you to realise the practice concept that you defined and researched during the Concept module. You will work with independent scholarship and with an enquiring and questioning approach to test, analyse, and critically evaluate your work throughout the process of concluding your masters study.