Program Overview

Fashion (with Foundation Year) BA (Hons)

Overview

This course prepares you for a versatile career in fashion, with a focus on design, marketing, promotion, image creation, and styling skills. You develop your portfolio in Fashion Design or Fashion Communication, giving you the flexibility to focus on your creative passion.

Top Reasons to Study Fashion at Teesside University

1. Nationally Recognised: Fashion is ranked 1st in the UK as part of our Graphic Design subject area ranking.
2. Industry-Standard Facilities: Immerse yourself in our sewing studios, print rooms, and technical workshops, where you develop your craft and digital technical skills.
3. Get Creative: Our course and campus are powered by Adobe and Apple, equipping you with the digital tools and resources to hone your creative skills.
4. Industry Connections: Network with and learn from experienced fashion professionals who contribute to our course, working for brands such as Berghaus, Barbour, and Speedo.
5. Work Experience: Gain specialised training to thrive in the fashion industry and connect with our extensive network for valuable work experience, employment opportunities, and the development of essential enterprise skills.

Course Structure

Foundation Year Core Modules

• Digital Art: Explore the fundamental principles of design and composition, studying image creation techniques using graphics software.
• Drawing and Making Fundamentals: Develop your knowledge of fundamental drawing and making approaches for many purposes and disciplines.
• Final Project: Create original ideas and concepts for your individual project, creating an artefact, report, campaign, comic, product, or other form related to the arts, design, and media industries.
• Study Skills: Develop key study skills in preparation for starting your degree, including critical thinking, teamwork, research, and delivering presentations.

Year 1 Core Modules

• Collaboration Project: Enhance your skills in team-working, communication, project management, and negotiation.
• Introduction to Fashion Practice: Study contemporary fashion practice and its communication to specified audiences and markets through 2D and 3D outputs.
• Introduction to the Creative Industries: Learn how to start on your career path while developing vital employability skills such as networking and digital presence.
• The Fashion Project: Examine contemporary fashion practice through cultural, social, and historical studies.

Year 2 Core Modules

• Creative Research Project: Develop critical thinking and analysis skills, exploring contemporary issues and debates related to the creative industries.
• Fashion Image and Innovation: Develop your technical skills in garment design, patterning, and manufacture or your creative skills in journalism, magazine creation, fashion promotion, and storytelling.
• Industry Project: Develop and explore, in depth, a creative industry-based project in your specialist area of design, art, media, music, photography, or illustration.
• Working in the Creative Industries: Research the social, political, or ecological challenges around us to generate a small-scale project.

Optional Work Placement Year

• Work Placement: Spend one year in industry learning and developing your skills, gaining experience favoured by graduate recruiters and developing your technical skillset.

Final-Year Core Modules

• Major Project: Produce a self-managed, individual extended piece of independent investigation and/or creative production or portfolio of work.
• Professional Practice: Plan and implement your departure from education to your first or new career, or to further study, developing a portfolio and/or extended piece of work which reflects you as a creative.

How You Learn

• Think, Dream, and Make: Learn through doing, with focused studio time for practice-based creative work.
• Develop Your Creative Voice: You are coached to find and grow your creative voice, collaboration with industry professionals and your peers gives you new perspectives on developing your practice.
• Grow Resilience: Develop a creative journal, capturing your challenges, milestones, and reflections to see patterns in your thinking and linking reoccurring ideas.
• Join the Creative Sector: Our intensive, career-focused modules help you understand working in the arts and creative industries.

How You Are Assessed

• The work produced is the work assessed, there are no exams – producing design projects are a key feature.
• Assessment is undertaken against carefully defined criteria and project-based assignments involve a critique.

Entry Requirements

• Year 1 Entry: 32-88 points, including a creative subject, from any combination of recognised Level 3 qualifications.
• Non-EU International Students: Check our web pages on UKVI-compliant English language requirements.
• Alternative Degree with Integrated Foundation Year: If you are unable to achieve the minimum admission requirements for Year 1 entry, you could join one of our degree courses with an integrated foundation year.
• Direct Entry to Later Years: If you have previously studied at higher education level, you may request direct entry to Year 2 or Year 3 of this degree.
• Mature Applicants: We welcome applications from mature students who can demonstrate, through portfolio or written work and relevant experience, that they have developed cognitive and technical skills through their life experiences.

Career Opportunities

• Many of our graduates go on to work with companies including NET-A-PORTER, YOOX, The Princes Trust, Margaret Howell, Chanel, and Pentland, others have gone to set up their own businesses with support from our start-up incubator Launchpad.

Tuition Fees

• Full-Time: £9,535 a year (UK applicants), £17,000 a year (International applicants)
• Part-Time: Not available part-time

Other Course Routes

• Work Placement: Study this course with an optional work placement year, at no extra cost.