Womenswear, Menswear, Fashion Textiles, Fashion Promotion and Communication
BA (Hons) Fashion at Ravensbourne is a successful course with a well-established reputation in the fashion industry.
The course enjoys a strong reputation that is reflected in national and international acclaim, through strong press coverage, showing at exhibitions and prestigious competition wins. The department enjoys close relationships with a range of fashion businesses and designers that enrich the curriculum through visiting lecturers, sponsored projects and work experience placements.
Specialist Pathway – Womenswear
Introduces you to the various aspects associated with womenswear fashion. Specialist units and related projects reflect current professional practice. You will be encouraged to develop creative, innovative and contemporary designs.
Topics include: understanding the female form, line, proportion, silhouette, fabric and colour.
Specialist Pathway – Menswear
Focuses on menswear and the ability to conceptualise and develop fashion for that sector. Topics include: understanding the male form, line, proportion, silhouette, fabric and colour for a range of key market sectors including high street and tailoring.
Specialist Pathway – Fashion Textiles
Explores the skills for creating stimulating silhouettes, whilst undergoing an exploration through printed digital textiles and knit. You will gain an understanding of print processes through mimaki, screen-printing and specialist knit software.
Specialist Pathway – Fashion Promotion and Communication
Focuses on how fashion is expressed through the creative mediums of photography, styling and writing across traditional and new media. You will investigate fashion launches, public relations and advertising campaigns alongside conceptual fashion promotions and be involved in the Rave on Air student showcase.
Level 1
Places you within your chosen Specialist pathway. You are introduced to the creative and technical aspects of fashion promotion and communication.
Level 2
Sees you undertaking a deeper exploration of your specialism, continuing to develop an individual approach to the subject and learning to place your work in a professional context. The year includes the opportunity for extended work experience and industrystandard projects that will challenge and stimulate you.
Level 2 has a high industrial focus and will engage you in a variety of external briefs and competitions.
Level 3
Allows you to develop individual, independent lines of enquiry around your specialism. You will build on your practical and theoretical knowledge through a major project that will focus your abilities. Level 3 also includes a dissertation on a fashion-related topic.
Personal and Professional Development units in this level focus you on the transition to work or further study. You will reflect on your career goals in relation to your professional development and explore areas of enterprise and business start-up.
Assessment
You will be assessed through the completion of practical and written work including essays, analysis, individual and group presentations, critical self and peer-evaluation, practical and technical tests, and the completion of individual and team projects.
Learning and Support
You will learn through a mixture of project briefings, lectures, group seminars, technical or practical workshops, demonstrations, individual or group tutorials and self directed study. You will be guided by professionally qualified and experienced teaching staff and visiting speakers from industry.
Progression
Graduates who achieve the required threshold standard will also have the opportunity to progress to the MA Fashion.
Term Starts
- September 2009.
- September 2010.
Payment of Fees
Students may pay fees either directly to the college or by applying for a tuition fee loan.
Information concerning tuition fees loans and other financial assistance is shown below
Where students are paying fees directly to the college, tuition fees are due in full at the start of the academic year or by the dates stated above if a discount is being claimed.
Where agreement exists to pay by instalments, fees are payable as follows:-
- 40% of the tuition fee + registration fees (if applicable) + administration charge on enrolment.
- 30% of tuition fee at the start of the second term.
- 30% of the tuition at the start of the third term.
Should a student withdraw from a course during the year, tuition fees will be charged as follows:-
- Withdrawal during the first two weeks nil
- Withdrawal before 1st January First terms fees payable
- Withdrawal on or after 1st January Full years fees payable
- Where Registration fees are charged these are payable on enrolment at the start of the academic year and are not refundable.
