Enhance your skills in team-working, communication, project management and negotiation. You collaborate with a group of your course mates to produce a small-scale creative project in response to a subject-specific brief.

This is a 20-credit module.

Study contemporary fashion practice and its communication to specified audiences and markets through 2D and 3D outputs. Develop skills in the fundamental principles and practices of the fashion industry, embedding the use of the design process to create original fashion related solutions in either digital or physical format. Create an awareness of fashion and promote experimentation through alternative and innovative approaches, while exploring research methods relating to fashion.

This is a 40-credit module.

With many opportunities in the creative industries sector, learn how to start on your career path while developing vital employability skills such as networking and digital presence. Understand the structure of the sector and the interdisciplinary relationships between art, design and media. Discover how the sector operates locally, nationally and globally – debating the role of policy and the importance of sustainability.

This is a 20-credit module.

Examine contemporary fashion practice through cultural, social and historical studies. Learn about industry processes, working practices, fashion communication and professional visualisation through your own fashion project and digital project portfolio. This includes design development, pattern cutting, garment manufacture and production of a range of fashion samples.

This is a 40-credit module.

Develop critical thinking and analysis skills, exploring contemporary issues and debates related to the creative industries. You research a specific area or development within your chosen subject – this may be technical, economic, ethical, legal, cultural, sociological, or a combination. You draw on appropriate academic and industry sources to contextualise your research. You present your topic and initial research within taught sessions, providing an opportunity for peer and tutor feedback.

This is a 20-credit module.

Develop your technical skills in garment design, patterning and manufacture or your creative skills in journalism, magazine creation, fashion promotion and storytelling. Using industry standard software, you visualise 3D fashion concepts, produce and explore 3D virtual environments and new markets within the industry.

This is a 40-credit module.

You develop and explore, in depth, a creative industry-based project in your specialist area of design, art, media, music, photography or illustration – relevant to your future professional practice. While forming a professional portfolio of work, you experience real-world business scenarios and challenges, industry competitions and cross and inter-disciplinary activities. You gain skills in project management, applied research methods and collaborative creative work.

This is a 40-credit module.

There are many challenges facing contemporary art, design and media practices. You research the social, political or ecological challenges around us to generate a small-scale project. You develop and reflect on your understanding of enterprise in the context of the creative industries. Contextualise your own professional practice and aspirations through application of critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

This is a 20-credit module.

You have the option to spend one year in industry learning and developing your skills. We encourage and support you with applying for a placement, job hunting and networking.

You gain experience favoured by graduate recruiters and develop your technical skillset. You also obtain the transferable skills required in any professional environment, including communication, negotiation, teamwork, leadership, organisation, confidence, self-reliance, problem-solving, being able to work under pressure, and commercial awareness.

Many employers view a placement as a year-long interview, therefore placements are increasingly becoming an essential part of an organisation’s pre-selection strategy in their graduate recruitment process. Benefits include:

• improved job prospects
• enhanced employment skills and improved career progression opportunities
• a higher starting salary than your full-time counterparts
• a better degree classification
• a richer CV
• a year’s salary before completing your degree
• experience of workplace culture
• the opportunity to design and base your final-year project within a working environment.

If you are unable to secure a work placement with an employer, then you simply continue on a course without the work placement.

You produce a self-managed, individual extended piece of independent investigation and/or creative production or portfolio of work. Supervised by an academic member of staff, you take responsibility for the planning and execution of the work, including the consideration of associated legal, social, ethical and professional issues. You explore in depth a chosen subject area, demonstrating your ability to analyse, synthesise and creatively apply your learning, showing critical and evaluative skills and professional awareness.

This is a 60-credit module.

Plan and implement your departure from education to your first or new career, or to further study. You continue your creative practice, developing a portfolio and/or extended piece of work which reflects you as a creative. You explore discipline-specific employability strategies, and engage and network with industry to develop key connections.

This is a 60-credit module.