Fashion (Extended Degree) - BA (Hons)

Northumbria University, Newcastle

Establish your professional creative identity and Fashion career path by developing your own specialist-creative-practice that explores Fashion design for real-world applications. Learn how to create, craft and communicate meaningful Fashion aligned to your own interests using thinking-through-making skills, craftsmanship and contemporary fashion design practices. Through practical assessment, build a skillful knowledge of pattern-cutting, printed textiles, or constructed knitwear enhanced by traditional and digital techniques within our excellent studios and workshops and professional design-community. Become career ready by experiencing industrial and enterprise placements or Design Study Abroad, amongst our industrial and cultural partners and alumni. Capitalise on our Fashion programme’s established reputation for producing award-winning designers with creative vision, knowledge and skills.

This extended degree provides an alternative route to higher education and supports those who don’t meet the standard entry requirements for an undergraduate degree. It includes a foundation year which year helps develop your skills, build confidence, and foster your creativity. The extended degree gives you the chance to explore a range of design disciplines linked to the creative design sector.

You will develop your knowledge of a broad range of creative design disciplines and equip you with the subject knowledge and essential skills that will be required for your entry into this degree. You will have an opportunity to learn contemporary portfolio skills, work on short projects rotating through the 4 different design specialisms of communication design, product design, fashion design and interior design to explore these subject’s areas in more detail.The foundation year of the course delivered at level 3 which develops your ability to study in Higher Education is not accredited. Subsequent levels and years are accredited and deliver the knowledge, competencies, and skills required to meet the specific course accreditation requirements that relate to the approved accredited award title.