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BA (Hons) Sustainable Luxury: Fashion and Interiors*
- Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time
- Placement: Optional 1 year
- Course code: WW22 (UCAS)
- Institution code: A66 (UCAS)
BA (Hons) Sustainable Luxury: Fashion and Interiors course information
From conceptual case studies to real-world projects with leading brands and potential placements that can open doors in the luxury industry, on BA (Hons) Sustainable Luxury: Fashion and Interiors, you’ll graduate ready to become a responsible leader in a market that’s redefining what luxury means to an increasingly diverse global society.
By focusing on meaningful work, innovation, ethical impact and career success, this course will resonate with students who are passionate about making a difference while pursuing a career in the luxury, fashion, interiors and design sectors.
Situated within the School of Design and Architecture, this innovative and interdisciplinary degree asks you to consider and critique contemporary notions of luxury in fashion, textiles, lifestyle, and interior design with an emphasis on integrity, sustainability, circularity and social responsibility.
The course fosters a deep understanding of how to create, design, craft, promote and manage innovative product and content for, and responses to, the exponentially growing luxury market, while upholding the highest standards of environmental consciousness, social justice, and inclusivity across a developing global market and ever changing customer and client demographic.
We capitalise on significant expertise across the areas of fashion, textiles, interiors, sustainable design and digital manufacture. You'll collaborate across courses such as BA (Hons) Fashion, BA (Hons) Textiles Design, BA (Hons) Fashion Communication and BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design to create a truly interdisciplinary experience at Arts University Bournemouth (AUB).
Graduates from BA (Hons) Sustainable Luxury: Fashion and Interiors will develop the confidence to enter a diverse, rapidly changing and global employment marketplace. You won't only see your values reflected in who you choose to work for when you graduate, but also in the products and experiences you consume.
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 start with an introduction to ethical design and sustainable practices, which will include inclusive design approaches, ethical sourcing of materials and the introduction to the creation of distinctive and enduring narratives and value propositions.
You'll then be introduced to the exploration of transparent and responsible supply chain management (SCM) and SCM accountability, an aspect of the course which should provide you with enhanced graduate employment opportunities across both UK and international markets.
The year will conclude by beginning your exploration into the opportunities, debates and challenges that surround the global luxury market, building your awareness of competing views as well as supporting you to develop your own position in this complex sector.
Level 5 (second year)
Second year takes a more advanced look at sustainable design approaches and how to apply them to your work.
This is followed by a more in-depth understanding of the social and economic impact of luxury and its relationship with social justice and environment.
This year will conclude by the exploration and application of technological processes as well as the opportunities presented by digital passports and blockchain.
Level 6 (third year)
Your final year supports you in developing strategies and policy for sustainable luxury and entrepreneurship with an emphasis on social change.
Based on all you've learned, as well as the research that you'll do, third year will culminate in a Final Major Project that demonstrates an understanding of ethical luxury, sustainable design and social responsibility.
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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) Sustainable Luxury: Fashion and Interiors 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 designers luxury product, 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.