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PostgraduateCourse summary
The MDes in Fashion and Textiles at Glasgow School of Art focuses on practice and research-based learning. The programme develops independently-minded designers who challenge and interrogate the field of fashion and textiles in new and innovative ways. The programme frames studio learning as a stimulating space that fosters critical reflection and experimentation within a vibrant community of professionals. The programme encourages students to take risks, reflect on their creative process, engage in peer learning, and utilise GSA's various technical, library, and archive resources. The programme encourages students to consider the human form as a limitless opportunity for creative expression and to develop an individual visual language accordingly. The programme employs a range of pedagogical approaches, enabling students to acquire key skill sets and attributes, enhance design thinking, develop innovative strategies, and reflect on their professional practice, through a learning journey that embraces acclimatisation and immersion, origination and experimentation, and progression and resolution. Throughout, students take significant responsibility for managing their learning, and the programme emphasises self-reliance and personal academic development. The programme emphasises formal and informal crossdisciplinary discourses within the Stage 1 core course on design research methods and Stage 2 PGT elective courses and reflects a sharing and collaborative ethos. The programme fosters independence, creativity, experimentation, and critical thinking, enabling students to address the evolving needs of society with empathy, social awareness, conceptual mindsets, and diverse forms of expression. The programme encourages students to be resourceful and to take inventive and rule-breaking approaches to surface and silhouette. Students take playful and unrestrained dressing-up-box approaches to fashion and textiles, subverting and disrupting craft and clothing conventions. The programme supports students to move effortlessly and expertly between 2D and 3D, to make spontaneous and reasoned responses, to consider outermost and innermost details, and to design responsibly for optimum social, environmental, and cultural impact.
Assessment method
Research project.
Qualified teacher status (QTS)
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
- Course does not award QTS
Entry requirements
An undergraduate Degree with a minimum Second Class Lower or equivalent in a relevant subject area or equivalent professional practice. Additional entry requirements: Applicants are normally required to submit a portfolio of work, along with satisfactory academic references and a personal statement as part of their applications. Applicants may also be required to attend an interview as part of their admissions assessment.
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 6.5 | IELTS for UKVI (Academic) or IELTS (Academic) test taken at a UKVI approved test centre. Applicants must achieve 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component. |
| PTE Academic | 59 | Pearson PTE Academic UKVI or Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic. Applicants must achieve 59 overall, with a minimum of 59 in each subtest. |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 80 | TOEFL (IBT) or TOEFL IBT at home. Applicants must achieve 80+ overall, with the following minimum scores in each component: Listening-18; Reading-19; Speaking-21; Writing-21. |
| Institution's Own Test | Applicants who complete GSA’s Pre-Sessional English for Creative Disciplines course will satisfy language conditions - https://www.gsa.ac.uk/undergraduate-degrees/english-for-creative-disciplines |
Applicants who require a Student Visa, and who are not a national of, nor have obtained a degree in one of the countries on the approved UKVI exemption list, will need to provide evidence of their English language ability through the use of a standardised test. All test results must be dated within 2 years of your programme start date.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Republic of Ireland | £10500 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £10500 | Year 1 |
| England | £10500 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £10500 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £10500 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £10500 | Year 1 |
| EU | £25900 | Year 1 |
| International | £25900 | Year 1 |
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.
Sponsorship information
SAAS Bursaries may be available to eligible applicants.
Provider information
Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G3 6RQ