This honours degree offers you the opportunity to advance your design process, develop independent practice, and deepen your specialisation in textile design industries.
Your design practice
You will research and examine your design practice within the context of critical, engaged and contemporary textiles systems, and related disciplines.
This degree is designed as part of the Advanced Fashion and 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 practice, emerging markets and economies, and materially-led design across and outside the textile and fashion design discipline. This advanced knowledge will deepen your portfolio, and set you up for professional design and design-related roles in industry.
The degree structure utilises research-enabled subjects and strategies to tap into emergent discipline areas, and offers specific pathways through a project-led model and independently-designed projects in specific industry contexts.
Graduates from this degree occupy significant positions in various roles in creative industries in Australia and internationally.
This qualification can lead to careers including:
textile and digital textile designer and artist
materials, knitwear and print designer
product designer
colour and trim designer for automotive
colour and trend forecasting
illustrator
freelance designer
stationary designer
carpet and rug, surface, upholstery fabric, and wallpaper designer.
To study this course you will need to complete one of the following English proficiency tests:
IELTS (Academic): minimum overall band of 6.5 (with no individual band below 6.0)
TOEFL (Internet Based Test - IBT): minimum overall score of 79 (with minimum of 13 in Reading, 12 in Listening, 18 in Speaking and 21 in Writing)
Pearson Test of English (Academic) (PTE (A)): minimum score of 58 (with no communication band less than 50)
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): minimum of 176 with no less than 169 in any component.