Get degree ideas using our A level explorer tool

Fashion and Textiles

Walsall College

UCAS Code: 122W | Higher National Certificate - HNC

Entry requirements


A level

D,D,D

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

MMM

UCAS Tariff

72-96

You may also need to…

Attend an interview

Present a portfolio

About this course


Course option

1year

Full-time | 2024

Subjects

Textile design

Fashion

This exciting and comprehensive course will prepare you for a career in the fashion and textiles industry. Throughout the course you will gain realistic ‘industrial’ level experience in order to prepare you for the workplace. Fashion designers generally work in three different areas: ‘haute couture’, designer ready-to-wear and high-street fashion. Within these areas, they will often specialise further, for example in men’s, children’s or sportswear.

The course will provide opportunities to develop your personal vision and ideas and explore areas of specific interest to you. It will also encourage you to develop your creative skills. On completion of the course you will be well-versed in the many aspects of fashion design, textile design and production. These skills will be complemented by an understanding of the historical, social, political, and economic influences on fashion design, and a sound knowledge of business and marketing principles to ensure a broad understanding of the industry and its organisation.

The course offers a broad experience for fashion illustration and design including projects set by associates from industry. Pattern construction, garment production and textile embellishment all play an important part of the course. You will be encouraged to enter prestigious competitions, to gain placements and employment in the industry, encouraged to progress and establish your own label or to continue to develop your skills to degree level. All students have the opportunity of taking part in a fashion show or high profile fashion shoot. Private study is required.

Modules

By undertaking the HNC Fashion and Textiles you will develop skills to a high level, both personal and technical including:
• synthesis of a range of concepts, knowledge and skills relating to fashion and textiles
• the application of complex theories to practical realistic work situations in the fashion and textiles sector
• independence of approach to study and the generation of fashion and textiles evidence
• the ability to engage with complex and/or unpredictable situations in fashion and textiles contexts
• the ability to take responsibility to manage and direct your own and others’ activities
• insight and judgement in relation to the margins and consequences of error
• research and investigative skills.
• responsiveness to change and the ability to multi-task
• the ability to innovate and work in a creative way

Units:

Unit 1 Professional Development
Unit 2 Contextual Studies
Unit 3 Individual Project
Unit 4 Techniques & Processes
Unit 6 Pattern Cutting & Garment Making
Unit 7 Fashion & Textiles Practices
Unit 8 Communication In Art & Design
Unit 9 - Fashion & Textiles Practices
Unit 28- Communication in Art & Design

Assessment methods

Assessment is continuous and is based on assignments, projects, group projects, lectures, workshops and formative tasks.

Knowledge and understanding of a subject is often developed through lectures and workshops as well through practical formative tasks.

Intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and problem solving may be demonstrated and applied through active learning via formative tasks and summative assignments and projects.

Practical skills assessment involves practical demonstration through processes and final outcomes / artefacts / performances etc. Transferable skills are readily convertible to employment and other contexts, such as in a problem solving, working effectively as part of team or meeting the needs of client etc. These often address wider skills such as written communication (developed and assessed through essays or reports and evaluations; oral skills through presentations in seminars). Both written and verbal feedback is given.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

England
£6,000
for the whole course
Northern Ireland
£6,000
for the whole course
Scotland
£6,000
for the whole course
Wales
£6,000
for the whole course

The Uni


Course location:

Walsall College

Department:

Art and Design, 3D, Graphic Design, Fashion, Floristry

Read full university profile

What students say


Sorry, no information to show

This is usually because there were too few respondents in the data we receive to be able to provide results about the subject at this university.

After graduation


Sorry, no information to show

This is usually because there were too few respondents in the data we receive to be able to provide results about the subject at this university.

Explore these similar courses...

Share this page

This is what the university has told Ucas about the criteria they expect applicants to satisfy; some may be compulsory, others may be preferable.

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

This is the percentage of applicants to this course who received an offer last year, through Ucas.

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

This is what the university has told Ucas about the course. Use it to get a quick idea about what makes it unique compared to similar courses, elsewhere.

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

Course location and department:

This is what the university has told Ucas about the course. Use it to get a quick idea about what makes it unique compared to similar courses, elsewhere.

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF):

We've received this information from the Department for Education, via Ucas. This is how the university as a whole has been rated for its quality of teaching: gold silver or bronze. Note, not all universities have taken part in the TEF.

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

This information comes from the National Student Survey, an annual student survey of final-year students. You can use this to see how satisfied students studying this subject area at this university, are (not the individual course).

This is the percentage of final-year students at this university who were "definitely" or "mostly" satisfied with their course. We've analysed this figure against other universities so you can see whether this is high, medium or low.

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

This information is from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), for undergraduate students only.

You can use this to get an idea of who you might share a lecture with and how they progressed in this subject, here. It's also worth comparing typical A-level subjects and grades students achieved with the current course entry requirements; similarities or differences here could indicate how flexible (or not) a university might be.

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

Post-six month graduation stats:

This is from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Survey, based on responses from graduates who studied the same subject area here.

It offers a snapshot of what grads went on to do six months later, what they were earning on average, and whether they felt their degree helped them obtain a 'graduate role'. We calculate a mean rating to indicate if this is high, medium or low compared to other universities.

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

Graduate field commentary:

The Higher Education Careers Services Unit have provided some further context for all graduates in this subject area, including details that numbers alone might not show

Have a question about this info? Learn more here

The Longitudinal Educational Outcomes dataset combines HRMC earnings data with student records from the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

While there are lots of factors at play when it comes to your future earnings, use this as a rough timeline of what graduates in this subject area were earning on average one, three and five years later. Can you see a steady increase in salary, or did grads need some experience under their belt before seeing a nice bump up in their pay packet?

Have a question about this info? Learn more here