Fashion Business and Promotion - BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Birmingham
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
Birmingham
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Duration
3 Years
Our BA (Hons) Fashion Business and Promotion degree course enables you to explore a range of roles within the fashion industry, beyond the making and production of clothing.
Guided and supported by a knowledgeable, industry-experienced staff team, you will gain an education across the different fashion sectors and develop skills in order to undertake a number of industry roles, including Buying, Marketing and PR, Trends forecasting and Event Management.
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About this course
You will learn how fashion roles work together, as well as commercial and consumer and competitive awareness.
You will work on a live project, as well as industry focused briefs across the first two years and benefit from regular industry guest speakers.
Throughout the course, we will develop your business knowledge and language, preparing you for delivering presentations, teamwork, writing reports and build skills in creating both paper and digital visual work with the aid of CAD packages.
In your final year, you will work on projects that support your independent interests and develop your self-promotion skills ready for industry. There will also be the chance to showcase your final-year work to industry leaders, at events such as Graduate Fashion Week in London.
OpportUNIty: Student Jobs on Campus ensures that our students are given a first opportunity to fill many part-time temporary positions within the University. This allows you to work while you study with us, fitting the job around your course commitments. By taking part in the scheme, you will gain valuable experiences and employability skills, enhancing your prospects in the job market.
GCSE English Language at grade C/4 or above
GCSE Maths at grade C/4 or above
Must have been achieved at the point of enrolment
See level 3 entry under Irish Leaving Certificate for full details
English Language at grade C or above
Maths at grade C or above
Must have been achieved at the point of enrolment
The course helps you become as versatile and dynamic as the industry itself.
Unlike other courses, we cover a variety of fashion business modules to ensure you gain a broad perspective of the fashion industry.
The course provides creative and visual fluency, equipping you with the toolkit to operate in the competitive, international fashion market place.
Our academic staff all have industry experience, teaching and researching their specialist subjects, ranging from trend forecasting to branding and international retailing.
Integrated work placements provide you with the essential experience needed to get ahead in their sector.
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Subjects
- Event Management
- Marketing
- Visual Communication
- PR training
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- International
- Financial
- Industry
- Communication Training
- PR
- Merchandising
- Promotion
- Visual Merchandising
- Consumer
- Fashion Business
- Trends Forecasting
- International Retailing
Course programme
The course is module-based and delivered one at a time – you will be taught in a classroom and lecture hall-style rooms to help you engage in lectures topics, discussions and class activities to support the module.
You will receive workshops in Visual Communication across pages such as InDesign and Illustrator.
All modules will be supported with weekly tutorials in groups or individually, of which you are expected to come prepared with work to show and questions.
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
- Fashion Business Context
- Trend Forecasting
- Buying and Merchandising
- Visual Merchandising
The course is module-based and delivered one at a time – you will be taught in a classroom and lecture hall-style rooms to help you engage in lectures topics, discussions and class activities to support the module.
You will receive workshops in Visual Communication across pages such as InDesign and Illustrator.
All modules will be supported with weekly tutorials in groups or individually, of which you are expected to come prepared with work to show and questions.
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
- Marketing and Public Relations
- International Retailing
- Event Management
- Work Placement
The course is module-based and delivered one at a time – you will be taught in a classroom and lecture hall-style rooms to help you engage in lectures topics, discussions and class activities to support the module.
You will receive workshops in Visual Communication across pages such as InDesign and Illustrator.
All modules will be supported with weekly tutorials in groups or individually, of which you are expected to come prepared with work to show and questions.
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits):
- Major Project
- Independent Final Project
- Self-Promotion
Additional information
International students
Award: BA (Hons) Starting: Sep 2021
Mode - Full Time
Duration - 3 years
Fees - £13,200 per year
Fashion Business and Promotion - BA (Hons)