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Fashion Marketing with Placement Year

Entry requirements


GCSE/National 4/National 5

3 GCSEs at grade C/4 (or equivalent) including English Language.

UCAS Tariff

104

About this course


Course option

4years

Full-time | 2024

Subjects

Marketing

Business and management

Our Fashion Marketing Degree is developed for the industry of the future and delivered by academics with real experience from the field. Explore the theories and creative concepts behind global fashion marketing with an emphasis on the needs of a new digital era.

Fashion marketers use various techniques to make brands stand out and remain popular in a fast-paced, highly-competitive market. Through a dynamic programme of academic study, creative challenges and professional skills development you will gain essential knowledge in the theory and application of these techniques. You will also gain a wider understanding of marketing as a business function, learning to recognise and meet customer needs, plan marketing campaigns and use the full marketing mix effectively.

We’ll help you to develop content creation skills and learn to exploit the potential of social media as part of a fashion marketing campaign. Balancing the creative aspects of marketing with increasingly important skills in data analysis and interpretation. You’ll learn how to transform consumer insights from rich data into future fashion trends as well as how to promote these trends to your audience.

With our digital focus we will prepare you to connect with a marketplace of digitally-savvy consumers who are disrupting and transforming global fashion markets today.

We work hard to keep our courses relevant, agile and responsive to ever-changing industry demands. Our ever-growing network of industry partners provides opportunities to enhance your degree and boost your career potential. You will have the chance to hear from specialists and experts through guest lectures. Live fashion briefs and industry placements give your learning real-world relevance. Our London campus offers you unique opportunities at the heart of the fashion industry. You will leave us with highly employable professional skills and a strong personal portfolio and rich industry experience.

Modules

Modules
Compulsory modules:

Practising Responsible Business Behaviours: This module examines the nature of business enterprise and its relationship with wider society, seeking answers to the question: what does it mean for businesses to behave responsibly? There is an ongoing debate regarding this question, with answers ranging from ‘just maximize shareholder value’ to ‘consider everyone who is affected, including unborn future generations’, with many variations in between. In this ongoing debate we encounter ideas regarding, for example, stakeholder theory, the triple bottom line, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, the role of the state or of supra-national organisations, and so on.

Principles of Fashion Marketing: The module will introduce the students to the key elements of fashion marketing, and how the industry develops strategies in line with their target market. Consumer behaviour theories and their application in a fashion context will be explored. Students will develop a firm understanding of the differing product, pricing and distribution strategies required for mass versus luxury markets as well as the fragmented nature of promotion across these varied market segments.

Fashion, Society & Culture: The module will provide the students with an understanding of the evolution of fashion from a historical as well as a contemporary perspective. The impact of design, globalisation, technology, culture and people on lifestyle trends and fashion will be discussed and analysed. By identifying the key drivers of change in fashion, past and present, the students will develop a greater understanding of how these patterns of change could impact on the development of the industry in global markets in the future.

Business analytics and the Blockchain: The aim of this module is to give you a practical grounding in the skills and techniques necessary to conduct data analytics and anticipate the effects of the blockchain on both short- and long-term strategy. The module introduces the blockchain and the scope of the blockchain industry. Basic statistical models are introduced in this module. As future business leaders, students will learn to understand blockchain, explore blockchain trends, investigate the market disruptions caused by technology and the impact of blockchain in industries worldwide. The module is designed to get you over the basic hurdles you will face when beginning to learn the data analytics and management techniques, and will cover some of the basic tasks that you face as a data analyst and will put you in a position to extend your knowledge of applying your analytical techniques.

Product Development: Concept to Consumer: The module will introduce the students to the product development process in the fashion industry. The focus will be on the links between market needs and the stages involved in realising the product through to the consumer. The students will also gain a clear understanding of the cost issues that relate to new product development, developing innovations in textiles, designing and creating sustainable fashion product, the impact of globalisation and how digital and analytical tools are being developed to automate roles within the development process.

Visual Fashion Communications: The module will be practice-based, developing skills to creatively communicate fashion concepts, products and promotions to both consumers and industry professionals, visually and verbally. Using industry-standard software, students will develop the core skills to create original promotions for platforms such as social media, retail environments or the web.

All modules are worth 20 credits unless stated otherwise.

Tuition fees

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Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£14,000
per year
International
£14,000
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

York St John University

Department:

Management

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Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

94%
UK students
6%
International students
44%
Male students
56%
Female students
72%
2:1 or above
21%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

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Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

95%
UK students
5%
International students
69%
Male students
31%
Female students
72%
2:1 or above
17%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

C
B
C

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Top job areas of graduates

16%
Sales, marketing and related associate professionals
13%
Business, finance and related associate professionals
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Sales assistants and retail cashiers

Want to join a fast-moving, diverse industry that's at the cutting edge of tech? Try marketing! A lot of the jobs are in London, but graduates don't just go to work in advertising agencies — all sorts of industries do their own marketing these days, and with the rise of digital and mobile technology, a lot of marketing is done in quite innovative ways using a wide range of methods. Common industries (apart from advertising and PR) include recruitment, online retail, higher education, banking and IT. A lot of jobs in this industry are handled through recruitment agencies, so if you get in touch with them early, that might give you a headstart for some of the jobs available. But be careful — unpaid working is not the norm in the marketing industry, but it is more common than in most sectors.

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16%
Sales, marketing and related associate professionals
13%
Business, finance and related associate professionals
10%
Sales assistants and retail cashiers

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