Final Major Project (Fashion Management)

Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate the ability to question and evaluate the parameters of contemporary fashion, design, business and management practice and theory.
• critically apply advanced level knowledge of fashion management and marketing context and theory, tailored around the needs of the global fashion industry.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• create a project that demonstrates creative problem-solving and effective communication techniques
• critically reflect on inclusive, ethical and sustainable professional development opportunities

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• advance critical awareness of inclusive, ethical and sustainable practices related to fashion management.
• synthesise and create through data, information, methods and techniques a project that creates original outputs

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how to question current ideas and debates and contexts related to fashion management to construct new insights
• the inclusive, ethical and sustainability responsibilities for future developments related to fashion management

The initial part of the module will focus on assisting students in the development of time and project management strategies as well as a refresher of the components of the research process and the application of ethical considerations. This could include further focus on the development of analytical skills, revisiting methods for accessing, organising and presenting data, the development of a critical literature review and the consideration of the use of research, drawing conclusions and deriving the implications of research. This will ensure that the students have the research skills required for the successful completion of their final project and can plan their individual work effectively. Throughout the semester students will receive tutorial supervision, including feedback on the draft chapters that they will submit. Areas of focus include:

• Researcher reflexivity
• Ethical research design and approval
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Writing up Final Project

Students will be exposed to a range of teaching and learning methods, employed on the module.

Teaching methods include:

• project supervision meetings with an individual tutor
• online recorded support seminars
• In-person/online lecture delivery
• Live Q&A online

Learning activities include:

• Independent study
• reading material self-guided and as directed by tutor
• analysing material
• writing up notes
• reflecting on taught material and feedback
• conducting research
• analysing results
• writing up the project

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.