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BA (Hons) Fashion Technology*
- Duration: 3–5 years full-time
- Placement: Optional 1 year
- Course code: W232 (UCAS)
- Institution code: A66 (UCAS)
BA (Hons) Fashion Technology course information
Fashion Technology will redefine what fashion can be through the application of technologies across the fashion workflow; in doing so, you'll understand not only the opportunities new and emerging technologies can create but also how they can impact the environmental, ethical, and socially responsible arguments intrinsic to this global industry. The course will emphasise purpose, innovation, circularity, respect and impact.
On graduating from the BA (Hons) Fashion Technology, you'll be fully prepared to lead in the fashion industry – not only as creative and technically skilled practitioners, but as champions of sustainability and social responsibility. You'll graduate with the knowledge, tools, and ethical framework to influence meaningful change and shape the future of fashion for the better.
Integrated Foundation Year
On BA (Hons) Fashion Technology, you have the option to take a specialised Integrated Foundation Year, or Year 0.
The Integrated Foundation year allows you to explore and develop your skills and knowledge at an introductory level, gaining a better understanding of what the subject area has to offer before joining the degree.
Placement year
All undergraduate courses at AUB offer an optional placement year, to be taken between your second and third years of study.
If you’re unsure about this optional placement, you don’t need to decide now. Once you’re here and studying with us, the course team will discuss the placement options with you, so when the time comes, you can make a decision that’s right for you.
Level 4 (first year)
Year One of this course will be common to all students, whichever later named award they go on to choose.
You'll start by looking at how technology has, is and will be driving innovation in fashion; how fashion has influenced the evolution of technologies and the role of technology within the fashion economy.
You'll then start to look at the business of fashion through the understanding and ethics of sustainable practices: ethical sourcing and fair-trade practices. This will be followed by an introduction to socially responsible consumer behaviour and marketing practices and the cultural and ethical perspectives of fashion and textiles history.
Your first year will conclude by looking at the fundamentals of garment construction and zero-waste design, digital tools for fashion, such as Adobe suite and CLO3D, digital prototyping and reduction of textile waste and an introduction to sustainable textiles and alternatives, such as organic, recycled, vegan and bio-fabricated.
Level 5 (second year)
Year Two will ask you to choose your specialism (named award) of either, BA (Hons) Fashion Technology (Design) or BA (Hons) Fashion Technology (Digital).
For those choosing the Design award, your second year will start by looking at the application of technology to sustainable garment design; “designing to last”: modular, standardised and convertible fashion and natural and low-impact dyeing techniques and up-cycling and textile repurposing strategies.
You'll then look at storytelling for ethical brands; how indigenous and traditional textiles, technologies and practices can influence modern design; circular fashion and ethical innovation and ethical supply chain and transparency tools.
Your second year in the Design specialism will conclude by looking at advanced zero-waste pattern cutting techniques and practices; fashion adaptation for a changing climate; “slow” fashion practices and social/ethical entrepreneurship and employability in fashion.
For those choosing the Digital award, your second year will start by looking at 3D/virtual prototyping and zero-sample production; AI and data-driven sustainability solutions in fashion; user-centred UX/UI in fashion technology and advanced sustainable technology practices.
You'll then look at circular business models and future employability for digital fashion specialists; blockchain for transparency in fashion production and markets and AI for responsible fashion forecasting.
Your second year in the Digital specialism will conclude by looking at digital fabrics and bio-engineered materials; using XR for virtual try-ons and e-commerce and digital/AI technologies for fashion influencing.
Level 6 (third year)
Year Three, your final year, will ask you to take your specialist areas (awards) to the limits of your knowledge – and beyond. Whether you're on the Design award or the Digital award, your units will be similar in their aims, and there may well be some shared teaching, but your outputs will certainly show off your chosen specialisms to their best.
For those on the Design award, your third year will start by researching into the identification and selection of your targeted technologies and processes as well as an impact assessment and life-cycle analysis (LCA) of your chosen specialisms.
For those on the Digital award, your third year will start by researching into the identification and selection of your targeted digital technologies and processes as well as an impact assessment and life-cycle analysis (LCA) of your chosen specialisms.
You'll then focus the development of your personal/professional brand and portfolio on its alignment with your personal ethos, direction and employability aims.
Your final year on either specialism will conclude with the development and realisation of your final project (collection), which completes your portfolio, enhances your progression opportunities and provides the opportunity to reflect on your personal and professional development experience.
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Teaching, learning and assessment
The course objectives are met by deploying a wide variety of teaching and learning methods including projects, lectures, seminars, group critiques and tutorials. In consultation with the Course Leader, staff are responsible for co-ordinating individual units of study, and for selecting appropriate methods of delivery according to subject matter and student experience.
The methods employed induct you to the disciplines required of a creative practitioner and promote the development of transferable skills.
The study time allocated to each unit in the course incorporates a balance of formal teaching, tutorial support and independent learning.
BA (Hons) Fashion Technology is structured progressively to provide increased opportunities for independent learning as you reach the later stages of the course.
The tutor leading the unit will employ a variety of methods of delivery in order to encourage your participation in the learning process. These will be dependent on the nature of the unit and the progress of the unit. Throughout the units within a year (and year on year) in the course, you're encouraged to gradually become more autonomous, progressively being asked to consider yourself as a professional designer.
The understanding of the role and appropriateness of communication is essential: as innovators in fashion technologies, clarity and professionalism in the verbal, visual and written communication of the self, of ideas and solutions to problems is prioritised on the course from the moment you join us.
The progressive promotion of independent learning reflects your anticipated maturity as a student and allows you to direct your learning towards individual goals. The teaching across the course is directed at providing you with the judgements necessary to take increasing responsibility for the management of your own learning.
Teaching is directed at supporting individual engagement in learning, although there will be opportunities for you to work in teams to enable you to learn the value of peer co-operation.
Contact hours include all scheduled teaching sessions, but also supervised time in the workshop or studio. In line with national guidance, we include in our calculation of contact hours all the time which is scheduled in the studio for independent study which is also supported by staff (either academic staff, or technicians).
Each unit is assessed separately, and the assessment forms part of the unit. Assessment both provides a measure of your achievement, and also gives you regular feedback on how your learning is developing.
For every unit of your course, we'll inform you of what you're expected to learn; what you have to submit; how your work will be assessed; and the deadline for presenting your work for assessment. This is made available through the online Unit Information.
You'll receive a final mark for each unit in the form of a percentage, which will be recorded on your formal record of achievement (transcript). Each component of assessment is graded using a notched marking scale, whereby only certain marks are used within each grade. The only marks available within any ten-point band are *2, *5 and *8 (e.g. 62, 65, 68). These marks correspond to a low, mid, and high level of achievement within each grade band.
All learning outcomes must be passed to successfully complete the unit.
On successful completion of your Honours degree course, you'll be awarded a degree classification based on your unit marks. The final classification is determined using all unit marks at Levels 5 and 6 using two different algorithms, which are detailed in the HE Student Regulations. If the two algorithms produce different results, you'll be awarded the higher class of degree.
If you have joined Level 6 through either the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) route or having completed a Foundation Degree (FdA), the final classification is determined using only your unit marks at Level 6.