Course summary

This specialist, flexible part-time course provides the opportunity for you to explore and develop your own specialism within Fashion, Textiles or Knitwear Design. The MA Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear courses provide a platform for diverse and creative thinking and design practice to challenge and drive the future of fashion and textiles. This will be your opportunity to think and do creatively, as be agents of change, to be innovative, take risks, to explore and solve problems. We encourage a personalised approach to practice and theory that takes account of social, political, environmental, and technological issues, from local and global perspectives. A critical approach to notions of progress encouraging a deeper understanding of craft, traditional and digital practices, and wider technological developments. Modules include:

• Innovation in Practice

• Culture and Collaboration

• Professional Futures

• Advancing Research Design

• 83% of NTU's research submitted to the 'Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory' Unit of Assessment was assessed to be world-leading or internationally excellent in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.

• Study on a part-time basis, and complete modules sequentially or independently (depending on your current qualifications).

• Benefit from lectures by researchers and visiting designers working in industry such as Jo Cope, Simeon Farrar, Professor Jane Harris, Moxham, Karen Nicol, and Christopher Raeburn.

• Opt for a 20 credit point advanced research module if you’re thinking of progressing to PhD or Professional Doctorate study.