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Bachelor of Textiles (Design) (Honours)

  • Bachelor (Honours)

This honours degree offers you the opportunity to advance your design process, develop independent practice, and deepen your specialisation in textile design industries.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor (Honours)
Duration
1 year full-time
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul

About this course

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.

Entry requirements

You need to satisfy all of the following requirements to be considered for entry into this degree.

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  • Academic requirements
  • Prerequisites
  • Selection tasks
  • English language requirements
Academic requirements

You must have successfully completed an Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent overseas qualification) in textile design or equivalent with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 (out of 4.0).

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisite subjects required for entry into this qualification.

Selection tasks

Semester 2, 2023

You must complete and submit the Textiles (Design) (Honours) selection task. Please click the apply button to submit your direct application. The link to submit your selection task will appear on the applicant dashboard after you have submitted your application.

Entry into this program is competitive, and applications are assessed in the order that they are received until the selection task date, if places are still available. For your best chance at admission into this program, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.

Selection task dates
Applicant type Register and submit the selection task by
All applicants 14 July 2023
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Selection task requirements
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Submit a 400-word written personal statement briefly outlining your:

  • Plans for what you will investigate in this program (maximum 100 words)
  • Career aspirations within contexts or markets of design practice (maximum 100 words)
  • Interests in textiles design research and related contemporary issues (maximum 100 words)
  • Current skills and capabilities and past experience that will support you in this program (maximum 100 words)

The folio must comprise of no more than 15 pages of your work, and should reflect your design, thinking and technical skills in textiles design practice with a focus on the following:

  • Knowledge in textiles design and specialisations of practice
  • Evidence of research, critical and conceptual analysis
  • Documentation of design process and design ideas
  • Sustained written work including practice reflection, academic essays or creative writing
  • Finished textiles or prototypes in documented form
  • Publications, photographs, films or other forms of textile design communication.

Submission instructions

Upload your folio as a single PDF. You can photograph or scan your work, but please make sure that it is in focus and well presented. Files should be no larger than 10MB. Under each image, please provide a brief explanation, including the purpose and background of the work (maximum 50 words).

Alternatively, you can provide a URL to your folio (please provide the password if applicable). All images must be contained and visible on one webpage. Provide a brief explanation for each image, including the purpose and background of the work (maximum 50 words).

Semester 1, 2024

Selection task details and submission dates will be available early August 2023.

You must complete and submit the Textiles (Design) (Honours) selection task. Please click the apply button to submit your direct application. The link to submit your selection task will appear on the applicant dashboard after you have submitted your application.

Entry into this program is competitive, and applications are assessed in the order that they are received until the selection task date, if places are still available. For your best chance at admission into this program, you are encouraged to apply as early as possible.

Selection task dates
Applicant type Register and submit the selection task by
All applicants TBC
English language requirements

You must meet the University's minimum English language requirements to be eligible for a place in this program.

Selection criteria by applicant type

Please select the highest level of education you have or will be completing in order to find out the selection criteria that applies to you, in addition to meeting the above entry requirements.

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Secondary education (Year 12) is not considered for entry into this program.

Vocational education and training (VET) is not considered for entry into this program.

You must have successfully completed an Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent overseas qualification) in textile design or equivalent with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 (out of 4.0).

Work and life experience is not considered for entry into this program.

You need to satisfy all of the following requirements to be considered for entry into this degree.

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  • Academic requirements
  • Prerequisites
  • Selection tasks
  • English language requirements
Academic requirements

You must have successfully completed an Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent overseas qualification) in textile design or equivalent with a minimum overall grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 (out of 4.0).

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisite subjects required for entry into this qualification.

Selection tasks

Pre-selection kit: You are required to submit a completed pre-selection kit (PDF 119kb) along with your application.

English language requirements

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.

For detailed information on English language requirements and other proficiency tests recognised by RMIT, visit English language requirements and equivalency information.

Don't meet the English language test scores? Complete an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Advanced Plus Certificate at RMIT English Worldwide.

Study locations

Melbourne City

Career pathways

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.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Creative Arts courses at RMIT University.
79.4%
Overall satisfaction
84.4%
Skill scale
81.6%
Teaching scale
59.3%
Employed full-time
$75.1k
Average salary