BA (Hons) Costume Design and Construction Bachelor's degree at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

This module offers an introduction to theatre production, focusing on the essential skills and workflows of the field. You will explore production processes from concept to execution and will learn about the broad range of roles and skills necessary to the creation of theatrical production (including arts and project management, risk assessment and marketing).

This module seeks to acquaint students with a range of theatrical conventions, forms, practices and individual practitioners from around the world that have helped shape non-western and European theatre. The material covered in this module can include ancient Egyptian, classical Greek and Roman theatres, African ritual forms and South Asian dance theatre (focusing on Kerala), medieval European, Chinese and Japanese classical drama, up to European Renaissance and Neoclassical dramatic forms.

This module introduces you to the basic set skills you will need to become a wardrobe trainee. These are founded on learning to make historical garments and mastering sewing techniques. At the same time, you will learn and practice wardrobe management essentials including differentiating between fabrics, recognising and describing styles of garments, good industry practice in labelling costume, maintaining costume and fitting and dressing actors.

This module introduces you to the different ways you will need to research the cultural context of a text in order to arrive at a costume design solution. You will also explore and research a range of drawing techniques with which to express and communicate your concept in the form of a set costume plates.

You will have the opportunity to learn and practice practical approaches and commonly used industry strategies and techniques, which are fundamental to creating effective costume design concepts. You will be able to demonstrate your ability to select a concept, describe it and communicate it as a set of plates and to apply the same knowledge to explain how the language of costume can be applied in a contemporary context.

This module will introduce you to the ethical theories and frameworks that can be used to inform professional conduct within the costume industry. It will enable you to gain an understanding of duty of care, professional agency, legal requirements and the responsibilities of job roles within a wardrobe department. Additionally, you will develop your knowledge of inherited biases within the industry, and the implications of costume design decisions. The module will involve analysis of hypothetica

To enable students to practice a semi-professional level of creative autonomy and managerial initiative through undertaking one of three possible senior roles - the Costume Designer, Wardrobe Supervisor or Specialist Maker/Cutter - who will together be responsible for managing the Production Wardrobe Team in its overall task of delivering a set of costumes for a live production.

You will be introduced to the basic principals involved in undertaking a research project and then asked to identify a specialist area relating to costume construction, which you are interested in developing in depth. In discussion with staff, you will formulate a research question. Based on your research you will write an essay exploring the cultural and practical background to your subject supported by illustrations, references and a bibliography. You will then go on to develop a practice info

This module will be of practical benefit in allowing students the opportunity to explore and develop a detailed strategy for their future careers in any of the drama, performance, theatre, film, or costume sectors. Aided by a series of guest talks from industry practitioners, the lectures, seminars and workshops will help students explore just what their future can be. Possibilities such as freelancing, social enterprises, setting up a company, partnerships, or using transferrable skills to ente