BA (Hons) Fashion Design Bachelor's degree at East London

Develop the skills you need to confidently navigate your future career. You'll engage in real-world professional activities like networking simulations, mock interviews, and digital branding exercises, supported by industry guest speakers and career coaches. Practical sessions will sharpen your communication, research, and critical thinking abilities, while workshops will guide you in building a digital portfolio to strengthen your employability.

Build the academic and professional skills you need for success in the creative and technology industries. You'll develop key study techniques, including effective note-taking, research, academic writing, and digital communication. Through workshops, tutorials, and practical tasks, you'll boost your confidence as an independent learner and strengthen your ability to plan, organise, and deliver assignments.

Strong numeracy and data-handling skills are vital in creative industries. In this module, you'll learn how to interpret graphs, solve problems using digital tools like spreadsheets, and present numerical information clearly. Practical exercises build your confidence with real-world scenarios, supporting your wider academic and professional development.

Understanding how media messages are created and interpreted is essential in today's digital world. This module introduces you to key frameworks for analysing visual media, while also building your ability to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively. You'll design an academic poster using professional software, develop critical thinking around cultural differences, and practise both oral and written communication for academic and industry contexts.

You'll harness new technologies and creative approaches to complete a practical project that mirrors real-world challenges in the creative industries. Through group work, independent development, and targeted workshops, you'll sharpen leadership, collaboration, and technical skills. The module encourages innovation, critical reflection, and the ability to see projects through from concept to completion.

This module provides BSc (Hons) Fashion Marketing students with the foundational knowledge of understanding technical/ theoretical skills and innovation within your relevant discipline of fashion marketing. The module will prepare you with the skills to begin your development journey as a professional fashion marketer, introducing you to core study skills and practice within your fields.

This module equips you with a basic understanding of the creative design process and methodologies within the context of fashion marketing. It will engage you in the production of contemporary solutions for fashion and related design, textile and fashion marketing areas using the key techniques and processes developed in Technical Skills & Innovation for Fashion.

This module aims to introduce you to collaborative projects and design creative solutions as a team. You'll work alongside other creatives within the fashion subject area. This module will focus on developing best practices and using individual skill sets to deliver specific project outcomes.

This module will develop knowledge and understanding of collaborative projects gained in the Fashion Contexts and Research module. This module will allow you to understand the business processes and methodologies that are used across several disciplines in the fashion industry. Here, you will be introduced to the issues and debates that are facing the fashion sector, which are critical components of a fashion marketing course.

This module will develop knowledge and understanding of collaborative projects created in the Fashion Theory and Research and Fashion Process modules in enterprise. This will provide crucial skills for a career in fashion marketing. By engaging in these projects, you will gain practical experience relevant to a job in fashion marketing.

This module focuses on an introduction to fashion marketing and the creative industries. It will offer insight through guest lectures and workshops designed to develop your professional skills. You gain key visual communication and written skills to better understand industry expectations and standards.

This module uses subject-specific technical and theoretical skills gained in the Technical Skills & Innovation module at level 4. You are required to further develop your individual skill set and employ this knowledge to create innovative design solutions, essential for a fashion marketer. The creative design process from concept through to development and final product, will be appropriately documented.

This module requires you to further develop your creative practice across fashion and the industry, using knowledge gained from the Fashion Practice module at level 4. You will demonstrate an understanding of the design process through the development of experimental and creative practice to produce an innovative sketchbook/ file and design construction/ creative/professional portfolio.

This module builds on the skills you will have achieved in level 4. Its primary aims are to further develop your understanding of collaborative projects regarding industry and its working cycle. You will address the impact of 21st-century fashion and look towards a more purposeful future by focusing on ideas such as fashion futures, digital technology, cultural globalisation, social media and sustainability.

This module aims to build on the knowledge and skills learnt in the Fashion Process module in level 4. You will be required to develop and share concepts based on your identity as a designer/ creative/ professional fashion marketer and, also to reflect and research your own cultural identity. Using relevant subject-specific creative and analytical processes you will develop your concepts collaboratively using visual storytelling.