Bachelor of Textiles (Design) (Honours)

The Bachelor of Textiles (Design) (Honours), offers you the opportunity to advance your design process, develop independent practice and deepen your specialisation in textile design industries and related discipline contexts.

You will research and examine your design practice within the context of critical, engaged and contemporary textiles systems and related disciplines.

You will expand and explore your key design skills, techniques, materials and expressions to advance your design practice for targeted contexts.

This program is designed as part of the Advanced Fashion & Textiles Design Studios where you will be immersed in creatively challenging and engaging contemporary practice.As a graduate you will be able to demonstrate design strategies that reflect contemporary textile design practice, emerging markets and economies, and materially-led design across and outside the textile and fashion design discipline contexts.

This advanced design practice knowledge will deepen your portfolio and set you up for professional design and design related roles in industry, related discipline contexts across textiles design, communication, strategy or research practice through further study.The primary learning mode is through advanced studio practice where immersive learning experiences and activities allow you to challenge and advance your practice in the Advanced Fashion & Textiles Design Studios.

Scaffolded projects target key elements of practice and are authentic to textile design industries as well as emerging disciplinary contexts, markets and research practice.

A curated suite of masterclasses stimulate advanced practice through working directly with guest practitioners, researchers and industry experts.

Individual and collective project experiences prepare students for collaborative work environments across discipline contexts.

Practice research strategies enable you to progress and expand the methods and approaches to design with critically engaged, analysis, and synthesis of textile design thinking.

Challenging materials and materiality of textile design as well as the design techniques and expressions you choose to practice with will allow for development that may shift ways to design.

The program supports designers to practice critically within existing textile and fashion design communities, and in emerging and across other disciplinary contexts.The program utilises research enabled courses and strategies to tap in to to emergent discipline areas and offers specific pathways through a project led model and independently designed projects situated in specific industry contexts.

Graduates are enabled to meet the challenges of competitive industry practice as well as having confidence in their practice to launch independent and emerging brands.

These roles are in national and global small to large scale textile enterprises, emerging international brands, luxury and high end brands, as well as in related disciplines contexts of fashion design, production, communications, branding, and textile and product development (automotive, homewares, interiors and related goods).

Graduates are engaged designers critically aware of the larger ethical, social, cultural, environmental and political concerns that need to be addressed in contemporary relevant design practice.

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To graduate you must complete the following:

All courses listed may not be available each semester

Semester One

Complete the following Two (2) Courses:

Complete One (1) course from the following Program Option list:

AND

Semester Two

Complete the following Two (2) Core Courses:

You must have successfully completed an Australian Bachelor Degree (or overseas equivalent) in Textile Design with a GPA of 2.0 (out of 4.0).

For equivalents to Australian academic entry requirements, see the Country equivalents web page.

Selection tasks

All applicants must complete and submit the selection task. Some applicants may be required to attend an interview.

English language requirements

A minimum IELTS (Academic module) overall score of 6.5, with no band less than 6.0, or equivalent. For equivalents to English entry requirements, see the English equivalents web page.

When you graduate from the Bachelor of Textiles (Design)(Honours) you will be equipped with distinct program learning outcomes. You will be able to: