Course summary
Our course provides you with a holistic postgraduate experience that enables you to become a versatile and creative costume maker with advanced design interpretation and technical construction skills. You enhance your skills through our range of taught modules and then apply these to practical projects and performances, while identifying professional frameworks for collaboration, research and employment. By the end of the course, you graduate as a skilled, resourceful costume maker and researcher with a strong portfolio of practice and credits from fully realised productions.
Modules
Research Skills // Costume Skills // Experimentation and Development // Professional Practice // Practice Dissertation: Final Research Project
Assessment method
Assessment revolves around your development as a creative researcher and practitioner. You document, analyse and defend your work. Assessment includes portfolios, verbal presentations, presentation of made work, as well as critical and reflective analysis. There are also oral examinations. You can undertake a conventional dissertation as an alternative to a final piece of practice. Practical/written work ratio: 80% practical work / 20% reflective work Alternative formats for written/ reflective work include podcasts, presentations, vivas, videos blogs, journals etc.
Entry requirements
You are expected to have a good degree (2:1) in a relevant discipline or practical experience of costume construction and tailoring, with experience of making made to measure garments. International students also need to meet our English Language requirements of 6.5 overall score for IELTS, with a minimum of 5.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). Other equivalent English language examinations will be considered.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Channel Islands | £12000 | Whole course |
| Republic of Ireland | £12000 | Whole course |
| EU | £20250 | Whole course |
| England | £12000 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £12000 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £12000 | Whole course |
| Wales | £12000 | Whole course |
| International | £20250 | Whole course |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Mount Street
Liverpool
L1 9HF