BA (Hons) Fashion Culture and Business

This course aims to provide you with a pedagogical structure that facilitates the learning of research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative. You will be required to engage with communities, locally, nationally, and internationally in order to produce outcomes that focus on the analysis of socio-economic and geographic phenomena relevant to the industry of fashion. The course will offer you the opportunity to work closely with other students within the University of East London’s Fashion cluster and other departments within the School of Arts and Digital Industries.

Year 1 (Level 4)

• Technical Skills and Innovation
• Fashion Contexts and Research
• Cultural Communities (Subject to Validation)
• Thinking Through Fashion (Subject to Validation)
• Fashion Enterprise 1
• Mental Wealth; Professional Life Business of Fashion 1

Year 2 (Level 5)

• Technical Applications
• Fashion Business: Globalisation, Psychopolitics, and Contemporary Issues (Subject to Validation)
• Theory of Fashion
• Mental Wealth; Professional Life Business of Fashion 2
• Storytelling and Visual Communication (Subject to Validation)
• Fashion Enterprise 2

This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement between years 2 and 3. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organization, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year is an addition to your studies. This means that it will take 4 years to complete your studies, instead of 3.

Year 3 (Level 6)

• Final Major Project: Theoretical Identity
• Applied Identities in Fashion Culture and Business (Subject to Validation)
• Fashion Culture and Practice (Subject to Validation)
• Mental Wealth; Professional Life Business of Fashion 3
• Fashion Enterprise 3

Employability

Fashion is an industry full of vast opportunities and much-needed skill sets that are continually involving. The great thing about studying fashion and developing core skills is that you can work practically anywhere and not just within fashion. Studying fashion culture and business will give you the opportunity to work in various creative sectors such as media and communication. Jobs include diversity manager, innovation manager, art director, editor, journalist, PR manager, and much more. Having a key understanding of culture and diversity is in demand by employers which is likely to put those studying this type of degree in prime position after they graduate.