Program Overview

Sustainable Fashion MA (Online)

Overview

Position yourself as a catalyst for environmental, social, and economic change at the vanguard of the fashion industry's sustainable transition on Falmouth’s Sustainable Fashion MA. This forward-thinking transdisciplinary master’s course empowers you to disrupt outdated systems and pioneer radical new approaches to address fashion's impacts by centring projects around planetary wellbeing at local and global scales.

Why Study This Course at Falmouth?

• Lead Radical Innovation: Master regenerative design practices and circular systems thinking by understanding the complete lifecycle of fashion – from agricultural origins to end use – positioning you at the forefront of the industry's sustainable transformation.
• Drive Systemic Change: Develop the critical capabilities to identify leverage points within complex fashion systems, enabling you to design considered responses that catalyze meaningful transformation at both local and global scales.
• Become an Industry Changemaker: Cultivate the strategic vision, practical tools, and collaborative approaches needed to disrupt outdated models and lead the fashion industry toward regenerative futures centered on ecological and social wellbeing.
• Create Impact-Driven Solutions: Establish yourself as an entrepreneurial industry leader by creating sustainable projects for self-identified problems, developing the skills to measure and communicate their real-world impact on both human and more-than-human systems.
• Join a Global Community: Connect with a global network of bold innovators and industry pioneers who will challenge, inspire, and collaborate with you to advance grand ideas and practices that redefine fashion's relationship with people and planet.

Course Details

• Location: Online
• Course Duration: 2 years
• Attendance: Part-time
• Start Dates: January, May, September (three intakes per year)

Modules

• Re_Imagine: Harness the power of imaginative storytelling, grounded by research into how today’s fringe ideas and technologies look to the future.
• Re_Make: Develop a positive sustainable relationship between the sourcing of materials, the design of fashion products, and the sustainability of environments and regenerative eco-systems.
• Re_Wire: Critique the systems behind fashion and pose the question; how can you implement sustainable change that addresses the multiple intersecting crises in the fashion system?
• Re_Frame: Critique interactions with the fashion product lifecycle through the context of environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
• Re_Form (MA only): Consolidate all the knowledge, research methods, and design skills you have learned in the previous modules, and identify and address a sustainable challenge through the development of positive and responsible intervention, platform, or system.

Assessment

• Assessment on this course has been carefully planned to work specifically for online delivery.
• You will keep an assessed critical reflective journal, for weekly reflections on learning, helping you to embed critical self-evaluation into your ideas and personal development.
• You will be assessed via coursework at the end of each module in the form of visual, verbal, and written assignments.

Resources and Support

• Dedicated easy-to-use virtual learning environment (VLE)
• Accessible online audio / visual content
• A Student Advisor to support you throughout your studies and access to our Student Support Services
• Access to our Employability Service
• 24/7 access to Falmouth's extensive online library of contextual books, journals, and resources
• Access to online software tutorials at LinkedIn Learning
• Students' Union community
• Optional in-person events
• Invitation to attend alumni events

Careers

As a graduate of this Sustainable Fashion master’s course, your career could progress into sectors such as:

• Sustainable fashion start-ups
• Commercial fashion companies
• Sustainability strategy
• Sustainable corporate communications
• Teaching and development
• Environmental or social campaigning
• Social entrepreneurship
• Charities and NGO’s
• Diversity and Inclusion

Within these sectors, you could go into roles such as:

• Sustainability Officer
• Product Sustainability Manager
• Sustainability Consultant
• Environmental Specialist
• Technical Designer
• Corporate Communications Manager
• Fashion Forecaster
• Creative Director
• Community Organiser

How to Apply

• Entry Requirements: An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification is desirable. However, candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply.
• Language Requirements: If English is not your first language you will need to meet the same standard which is equivalent to the IELTS Academic 6.5 overall score, with at least 5.5 in Reading, Writing, and Listening, and a minimum of 6.0 in speaking.
• Deadlines: This course has three intakes per year: January, May, and September.
• Early Bird Discount: An Early Bird discount is available for early applications. Currently, the scheme offers up to £600 off MA tuition fees.

Fees, Costs & Funding

• Tuition Fees: £12,150 total fee (incl. acceptance fee) - 2 years part-time - MA/MSc course
• Typical Course Costs:
  • Laptop/Computer
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Resources/materials
  • Optional face-to-face events
• Postgraduate Funding: There are loans, awards, graduate discounts, and alternative funding sources for postgraduate studies.