Fashion with Business Studies
Introduction
- From December 2010, our programme in Fashion with Business Studies allows a single title to represent all features of the courses formerly advertised separately: these were the four-year Fashion Design with Professional Experience BA(Hons), three-year Fashion Design with Business Studies BA(Hons) and four-year Fashion with Business Studies MDes.
- Our Fashion with Business Studies courses prepare you for work in the fashion design or fashion related industries.
- In your second year, you will select from two distinct pathways leading to BA(Hons) or MDes. The choice is made with your tutors' help, depending on your own specific needs and interests.
- Our teaching team offers you expertise in research skills, concept development and the production of a womenswear or menswear garment collection, or production of an alternative fashion product.
Overview
Introduction
This course prepares you for work in the fashion design or fashion-related industries.
Course structure
structure Year 1 is the same for students on the BA(Hons) and MDes integrated masterslevel award. You will develop the technical skills of fashion design, including pattern cutting, draping and garment manufacture, while exploring the cultural and commercial contexts of fashion.
In year 2 design projects will broaden your knowledge of different fashion market sectors. Projects are diverse and will test your design skills. You will develop your communication skills, and build a body of design work and garment samples to add to your portfolio. You may also complete an industrial placement year following year 2.
During year 2 we will help you decide which final award suits your study needs. If aiming for the BA(Hons), in your final year you will design and make a collection of market-specific outfits for either womenswear or menswear. You will also produce a professional portfolio of design work, a dissertation and business plan.
Alternatively, on the MDes, over the final two years you will complete an industrial placement module, and formulate a personal research question from which you will produce a collection of garments or develop an alternative fashion product. This could be art direction of your own magazine or design for an industry that requires specific clothing knowledge.
Areas of study
We offer you expertise in research skills, concept and design development, as well as business studies. Professional practice and historical and critical studies are integrated aspects of the course.
Syllabus
Year 1
Fashion Design Process
Personal Design Development
Visual Research and Communication
Historical and Critical Studies
Professional Practice
Year 2
Fashion Design and Market Awareness
Fashion Presentation and Communication
Visual Research for Fashion and Textiles Practice
Extension Studies
Historical and Critical Studies
Professional Practice
Optional professional experience year
BA(Hons) Final year
Fashion Design Collection
Fashion and Textiles Design Research
Historical and Critical Studies
Design Management and Business Plan
MDes Final two years
Fashion Design Intermediate Collection and Professional Portfolio
Historical and Critical Studies
Industrial placement and Business Practice
Fashion Concept and Product
Professional Entrepreneurial Development
Two options
Career and progression opportunities
Our graduates are employed in prestigious fashion houses, for example, H&M and Balenciaga. Others including Stevi Jelbart and Emma Sandham-King of Ophelia Fancy, and Emma Cook, have established their own design labels. Most graduates work as designers, buyers, merchandisers, stylists and trend forecasters. Others go on to postgraduate study.
Key facts
UCAS code BA(Hons) W2N2 MDes W2N1
Duration 
Full-time: 3 or 4 years
Typical entry requirements
individual offers may vary
Location Grand Parade
A-levels:
BBB (typically translates to 300 points in the UCAS tariff.) Applicants with only 2 full A-levels or a double award will be considered on an individual basis.
ND/C (Level 3):
DMM.
International Baccalaureate:
individual assessment.
QAA-approved access course:
acceptable, subject-specific units.
GCSE (minimum grade C):
a good profile including English language and mathematics.
For non-native speakers of English:
IELTS 6.0 overall, 6.0 in writing.
Other:
Art and Design Foundation Diploma. Interview and portfolio review.
Fees
The fees listed here are for full-time courses for the upcoming academic year only. Further fees are payable for subsequent years of study.
The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, whether you study full- or part-time and whether or not you already have a higher education qualification. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take. Different rules apply to research degrees - contact the course team for up-to-date information.
Visit www.brighton.ac.uk/money for more information, including advice on international and island fee paying status, and the government's Equivalent or Lower Qualification (ELQ) policy.
BA Hons Fashion with Business Studies
UK/EU (FT) - 9,000 GBP
Island Students (FT) - 9,000 GBP
International (FT) - 12,500 GBP
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