Graduate Diploma Textile Design

The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:

• BA (Hons) degree or equivalent academic qualifications
• Evidence of ability in art or design
• Alternative qualifications and experience will also be taken into consideration
• Personal statement
• Portfolio of work

Entry to this course will also be determined by the quality of your application, looking primarily at your portfolio of work and personal statement.

APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

• Related academic or work experience
• The quality of the personal statement
• A strong academic or other professional reference
• A combination of these factors

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

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Students will have gained the skills, knowledge and experience required for further study at MA level.

Unit 1 - Research and risk-taking: exploring your practice

This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University. You’ll get an overview of key textile areas including weave, knit, stitch and print. A discovery project will help you decide what and where your focus will be as a textile designer. Online and onsite lectures will cover a variety of applications for textiles within different contexts. Written work will include a project proposal for Unit 2 that is underpinned by sustainable, social and responsible design methods and practices.

Unit 2 -  Critical and professional contexts: development and realisation

This unit will focus on your future ambitions within textile design. You’ll develop your design identity and how this connects to a wider external context. You’ll produce a critical research paper contextualising your practice and put together a portfolio.