Fashion Buying Retail Management

Course content - 2017 entry

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

In the first year, you'll be introduced to the University and the technical workshops and facilities available to you. On the course you’ll learn the technical and conceptual skills that will give you a solid foundation from which to explore your areas of specialist activity.

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Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules

• Introduction to Fashion Buying and Retail Management

  You'll be introduced to the principles of fashion buying and retailing, involving both large and small retailers, 'bricks and mortar' retailers and e-tailers. It's here that you'll be able to explore both new and traditional forms of fashion retailing.

• Exploring Fashion Communication

  Explores the roles of different communication tools and their impact on a retail business' performance.

• Contextual Studies in Fashion

  Explores the product that this industry revolves around and how fashion has evolved through times.

• Developing and Leading Fashion Teams

  Designed to help you explore the way in which a fashion retail organisation manages its human resources. We'll explore contemporary leadership issues and how to recognise, inspire, motivate and retain key performing members.

• Introduction to Fashion Marketing

  Introduces you to the techniques and concepts that practising marketers use to develop successful products and services.

• Finance for Fashion Buying and Retailing

  You'll be able to examine and understand the accounting cycle, the basic framework of the accounting information system and how to interpret and start to use it to enhance the decision-making process. This unit uses a practical approach and examines the way financial statements are formed, to encourage familiarity with the accounting processes and assumptions, concepts and principles upon which the financial statements are based.

The second year focus is on finding your own specialist way of working and you’ll be encouraged and supported to start working more independently. During this year you may also have the opportunity to complete an industry work placement or even study abroad.

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Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules

• Fashion Buying and Merchandising

  Introduces buying terminology and overall processes for strategic merchandise planning, covering all the contents of the merchandise budget from top-line plans and predictions to brand/supplier budget allocation. We'll examine sourcing brands and suppliers with a focus on good buying practices.

• Understanding the Fashion Consumer

  Gives you an experiential and practical approach to discovering the consumer and the retailer's target markets.

• Fashion Supply Chain Management

  The fashion supply chain has dramatically changed in terms of scope and scale over the past ten years. This unit studies the rationale behind these seismic shifts, and looks at the development of enabling technologies which have created fast and nimble international fashion supply chains.

• Fashion Futures

  Designed to challenge any concepts of retail and retailing methods, as part of the preparation for the final year.

• Omni-channel Fashion Retailing

  This unit is designed to investigate the new retail technologies which will help and enhance the consumer journey, as well as the impact of omni-channel upon shopping behaviours

• Option 1: Professional Engagement (placement)

  You'll undertake a four to eight week self-initiated work placement, that's relevant to your potential career direction and contributes to the fulfilment of the course aims and objectives.

• Option 2: Professional Engagement (industry case study)

  This is an opportunity to study an aspect of the industry that you've identified as an area of interest, through the method of case study research. You'll be based at university and will undertake fieldwork into a self-selected topic or question.

The third year will see you achieve a greater level of independence with self-managed research, study and practice, resulting in a final major project and a written dissertation.

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Course modules

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  Introduces you to the concept and characteristics of entrepreneurship, innovation and new venture planning, and to the importance of entrepreneurship to individuals, communities, and the global economy. You'll examine the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and examine some of the factors that influence entrepreneurs.

• Fashion Strategy and Globalisation

  Encourages investigative research into the strategic and international management for a chosen retail business.

• Option 1: Realisation, Production and Creative Strategy

  You'll define, articulate, present and critically reflect upon a creative strategy for a new retail concept, thereby underpinning and enhancing the knowledge and understanding of the defined area of focus, as well as developing the ability to communicate this in a dynamic way.

• Option 2: Realisation, Production and Business Strategy

  You'll define, articulate, present and critically reflect upon a business strategy for a new retail concept, thereby underpinning and enhancing the knowledge and understanding of the defined area of focus, as well as developing the ability to communicate this in a dynamic way.

• Fashion Branding and Luxury

  You'll learn how fashion brands are created, expressed and managed to provide value to the business and consumers.

• View the programme specification for 2016 entry
• View the summary specification for 2017 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules