BA (Hons) International Textiles (Top Up) at Manchester Metropolitan University

Ready to take your design practice to a global stage? The BA (Hons) International Texiles top-up is designed to help you think creatively, work innovatively and respond confidently to global trends in design. You will strengthen your critical and conceptual thinking while gaining insight into global and professional design practice, enabling you to define your own creative identity and professional direction.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities  |  Department: School of Art and Design  |  Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The International Textiles top-up course facilitates you to undertake projects with an external professional and international focus, run in collaboration with a range of academic and professional partners. The projects will offer high-quality opportunities to acquire external professional and global perspectives as well as further develop collaborative skills and design practice knowledge within a range of contexts. Year 1 core: Practice, Unit X, Global Design: Cultures, Contexts and Methods.

Career pathways

Past textile graduates hold key creative positions in organisations such as Habitat, Paul Smith, Aardman Animations and ASOS or are self-employed as designers and practising as artists. Some are in postgraduate education at the Royal College of Art, London College of Fashion and at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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