Bachelor of Arts in Textiles, Fashion
and Design with Business Management
CAO Code: AS053
Portfolio Submission: 15th April 2016
Home Economics Department
St. Angela’s College
Lough Gill
Co Sligo
Ireland
www.stangelas.nuigalway.ie/programmes
Bachelor of Arts in Textiles, Fashion
and Design with Business Management
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
The BA in Textiles, Fashion and Design with Business Management is designed to enable students to become competent
in researching and developing garment and textile craft designs to meet a project brief and build and present a collection
of work. Additionally students will also develop and refine their business expertise with the skills necessary to launch
new ventures and products. This degree programme is unique in its combination of fashion and textile craft design
with business management. Graduates will be equipped to start their own fashion or textile craft design business, work
in middle management in the fashion or textile craft industry liaising with offshore production facilities as fashion
forecasters, in fashion consultancy, fashion or craft marketing, costume design, design management and as textile artists.
The programme offers core modules in design and business management,optional pathways in either fashion design or
textiles in years two and three and a work placement at the end of year two.
WHO IS THIS COURSE AIMED AT?
School leavers and mature students who have a strong interest in Textiles or Fashion Design, who meet the entry
requirements and have proven design ability assessed through their portfolio presentation. Students from nontraditional
entry routes will also be considered.
PROGRAMME FACTS
Restricted Entry Course: Portfolio to be submitted on April 15th 2016
CAO Code: AS053
Award: Level 8, honours degree Duration: 3 years
Entry requirements: Applicants are required to pass the Portfolio and have a minimum of an established Leaving
Certificate (or an equivalent) with at least two Grade C3s at Higher Level, at least Grade D3 (Ordinary or Higher course)
in the remaining four subjects and pass a portfolio assessment. See Portfolio Guidelines.
Subject Requirement: Minimum 6 subjects including Irish (unless exempt), English, Maths and another language.
FETAC qualifications: If you have an appropriate FETAC (Level 5/6) qualification in the area of textiles, fashion or design
and you have achieved distinctions in a minimum of five modules and pass a portfolio assessment, you will be considered
for entry. There are also opportunities available to students via non-standard entry progression routes including mature
entry, Access, HEAR and DARE.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATES
On successful completion of the BA in Textiles, Fashion and Design with Business Management graduates will have
the skills, knowledge and competences the industry requires for careers as fashion and textile designers and as buyers,
stylists, forecasters, production management, pattern and garment technicians, costume designers, celebrity, TV and
movie style consultants, or to set up businesses as designer makers, crafts people and textile artists. The degree course
also affords the opportunity to pursue further studies at Postgraduate, Masters and PhD levels
PROGRAMME CONTENT
YEAR 1
Designing for Fashion and Textiles 1.1
Designing for Fashion and Textiles 1.2
Pattern Cutting and Construction Techniques
Visual, Historical and Contextual Studies
Fibres and Fabrics
Management Principles
Marketing and Consumer Behaviour
Management Information Systems
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
Design for Fashion and Textiles 2.1
Design for Fashion/Textiles - Optional Pathway 2.2
Research in Visual, Historical and Contextual Studies 1
Marketing Research
Financial and Management Accounting
Digital Marketing
Portfolio Collection 3.1
Portfolio Collection 3.2
Research in Visual, Historical and Contextual Studies 2
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Operations Strategy
Strategic Management
For further information please contact
Ursula O’Shea
Home Economics Department,
St Angela’s College, Lough Gill, Co. Sligo.
T: 00 353 (0)71 9143580
E: uoshea@stangelas.nuigalway.ie
W: www.stangelas.nuigalway.ie