IELTs 6.5 with minimum of 5.5 in each component
This dynamic, industry-connected course prepares you for a career as a future-focused creative designer and thinker, fluent with current global industry practices. You will study specialist digital techniques and traditional hand methods to develop your skills in knitted fabric design innovation, garment shape and product development, construction and manufacture for fashion or interiors.
You’ll showcase your final year work in either a catwalk or static show at our Degree Show, Nottingham, and may be selected to exhibit at events such as Graduate Fashion Week and New Designers.
We’re ranked in the top ten in the UK for Fashion and Textiles (Guardian University League Tables 2020).
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Year One
Curiosity: Creative Exploration and Research
Curiosity: Creative Development and Application for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles
Year Two
Directions: Industry and Context for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles
Directions: Innovation and Transition for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles
Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-Taking
Optional Module
Choose from:
Material Stories
Buying, Merchandising and Product Fundamentals
Trend Forecasting
Publishing: Experimental Formats
Year Three
Optional placement year
These include:
Burberry
Sophie Steller
Marks & Spencer
Julian McDonald
Roksanda
South Ocean Yarns, China
Brilliant Global, Hong Kong
Hugo Boss, Switzerland
Rebecca Taylor, New York
Li & Fung, New York.
Our students have undertaken various roles, including:
product development assistant
product developer
design assistant
freelance knitwear assistant.
Final year
Resolutions: Culture and Context
Resolutions: Practice and Context for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles
Employability for this course is excellent, with 93% of students who took a year-long work placement going on to employment or further study within six months of graduating. (DLHE survey 2016/17)
Graduates go into fields such as design, product development, styling and promotion and global sourcing.
Recent graduate destinations include:
Abercrombie & Fitch
Alphatex
Calvin Klein
DKNY
Hugo Boss
John Smedley
Josh Goot
Julian MacDonald
Lauren Richards
Nike
Pantherella
Sophie Steller
Stine Ladefoged
Sun Hing Ltd.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
