BSc (Hons) Fashion Design with Marketing Bachelor's degree at Huddersfield

This module will introduce you to a range of creative and technical skills and specialist equipment to underpin the foundations of fashion design. During practical workshop sessions you will explore visual research and design approaches, fashion drawing and illustration techniques, material, and colour selection, alongside an introduction to pattern cutting and clothing manufacture processes.

This module is designed to build your core knowledge in materials and processes used in a wide range of both bespoke and industrial applications. You will have the opportunity to explore how materials for the fashion, costume and fashion marketing industries continually evolve through technological developments and innovation.

This module will introduce the fundamentals of marketing and develop the core skills, theories and processes that underpin fashion marketing. Students will explore branding, the marketing mix, understand, and use marketing research and explore the application of strategy across the spectrum of fashion businesses. A clear understanding of the consumer and how and why they buy will be explored and how this effects the decision making processes of fashion businesses.

This module introduces the theory underpinning how textiles and its associated industries are responding to sustainability targets and concerns. Students will develop knowledge, understanding and critical thinking whilst exploring key principles of sustainability such as environmental and social impact, sustainable practices related to manufacturing, recycling/reuse of materials, and circular business models.

In Design and Realisation you will develop a portfolio of work which explores design concepts, visual media, shape, proportion, colour and fabric selection, supported by two-dimensional and three-dimensional construction processes, to create unique fashion clothing.

This module aims to develop a transferable set of skills applicable to a wide range of employment positions within the fashion industry. Professional Development Planning (PDP) is embedded within the module, with a focus on you identifying academic and professional goals and developing the skills and knowledge necessary to fulfil them. The module will allow you to contextualise your future role and identity within the fashion, textiles or costume industry and you will be supported in developing

This module will further develop your theoretical understanding and critical engagement with sustainability, as contextualised within your specialism (textiles, fashion, costume, marketing). Building on your foundation knowledge and maintaining a clear focus on the practical aspects of sustainability, you will work within the context of global consumers, audiences, manufacturers, retailers, marketers and other collaborative organisations and individuals in textiles and its associated industries.

This module aims to deepen students' understanding of marketing concepts, consumer behaviour, and cutting-edge strategies within the dynamic and competitive fashion industry by building on the foundational knowledge acquired in first year. It delves into the critical aspects of branding, brand handbook development, and consumer profiling to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to create successful fashion marketing campaigns. Through practical exercises and real-world case stud

This dedicated contemporary tailoring module provides the opportunity to consolidate previously acquired pattern cutting skills, and introduces a variety of specialist tailoring. Throughout the module, you will develop further previously acquired pattern cutting, manufacturing and fashion design knowledge to an intermediate level and develop specialist skills in fashion design for tailoring. You will be encouraged to develop a balance between creative and commercial requirements in pursuing soph

Throughout this module you will expand on previously acquired pattern cutting skills and gain an introduction to creative cutting techniques. Studio-based workshops will provide an understanding of how three-dimensional stand-work can inform fashion design through the process of experimental garment construction work on the stand with appropriate integrated textiles. The module content is made up of two distinct elements - design and manufacture; however, these elements are assessed holistically

The placement year is your chance to gain hands-on experience and build on the skills you've developed in your first two years of study. You'll spend up to 48 weeks (minimum 36 weeks) in a graduate-level role, sharpening your professional skills, exploring career options, and boosting your future job prospects. During your placement, you'll reflect on your performance, develop real-world skills, and learn to approach your role with a critical eye. Your placement will be monitored, and you'll be

You will channel your creative and intellectual skills to realise innovative, original and highly professional proposition(s) appropriate to your specialism. You may decide to work in a collaboratively and/or interdisciplinarily, with other students, or with industry. Your finalised artefacts will act as a group of coherent summative statements.

This module will re-emphasise the importance of in-depth research and design development, and its relationship with forward-thinking fashion design thinking and practice. Through this module, you will identify and develop a theme/subject/issue relevant to your specialist pathway within fashion design, the context and parameters of which will be self-directed, supported by ongoing dialogue with your tutors.

The module reflects theoretical, technical, and professional issues appropriate to your practice and is specifically designed to unfold throughout the final year The module is intended to be a critical and diagnostic tool with which to examine your work. It is made up of a series of outputs and will help you to determine and contextualise the direction of your practice-based modules. The process of reflection, research and critical analysis is vital to the module. It will help you to identify co

This module complements your major project through the production of an in-depth written report. You will extend and apply your knowledge of fashion design, costume and production, textile design, textile crafts, or surface design by demonstrating a critical analysis and evaluation of topic of contemporary relevance, and significant to your practice by reflecting appropriate theoretical, technical, and professional issues.