Program Overview

Fashion Communication and Styling BA Honours

Course Overview

This multidisciplinary programme fosters inclusion, integrity, and personal identity. We explore mediums such as photography, styling, art direction, and film and emerging technologies.

Why Choose Fashion Communication and Styling BA Honours at Middlesex?

We pride ourselves on being one of the most innovative and exciting multimedia and visual communication in London. As part of the programme, you will have the opportunity to build live industry skills on placement working towards London Fashion Week. The degree show provides further opportunity and support to build your professional industry network.

What You Will Gain

The course will prepare you through study in photography, styling, art direction, and film. You will gain industry-relevant skills, fostering integrity and personal identity within the global fashion community. The curriculum promotes equality in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (10.2) which encourages social, economic, and political inclusion for all.

What You Will Learn

Our Fashion Communication and Styling programme will offer you the chance to learn skills in industry standard presentation and building professional networks which are essential for your future employability.

Course Structure

Year 1

• Communication Skills (30 credits) - Compulsory This module develops your abilities in industry-relevant communication tasks or assets related to illustration or graphic design or fashion communication and styling or advertising, public relations and branding or digital media.
• Fashion History and Social Identity (30 credits) - Compulsory This module will introduce you to different ways of looking at and thinking about fashion, providing an introduction to key themes, narratives and concepts, and considering their historical and theoretical underpinnings.
• Creative Workshops (30 credits) - Compulsory This module introduces you to design disciplines, such as design thinking, life drawing, digital design, moving image, video editing, photography, design for print, and styling.

Year 2

• Fashion Communication Practice (30 credits) – Compulsory To hone your skills and to develop your knowledge of fashion communication industry practice you’ll choose a specialism: stylist, costume designer, photographer, videographer, art director or set designer.
• Fashion Cultures and Social Responsibility (30 credits) - Compulsory This module develops your specialist knowledge of critical concepts and issues in contemporary fashion cultures and industry, and skills to navigate in an ethically informed manner the production, consumption and mediation of fashion, as a global aspect of both culture and industry.
• Fashion Internships (30 credits) - Compulsory The module builds on previous knowledge and skills in identifying an appropriate career specialisation in the fashion, textiles, and fashion communication industries through a process which requires the exercise of cultural competence, personal ethics, responsibility and decision-making.
• Industry and Audience (30 credits) - Compulsory This module reflects the fast pace of the fashion industry and further develops autonomy, professional confidence and collaborative management skills gained through the internship module.

Year 3/4

• Fashion Communication Portfolio (30 credits) - Compulsory This module will help you develop a graduate portfolio of creative outputs which reflects your chosen role or field of fashion communication.
• Production and Development (30 credits) - Compulsory You will produce a series of self-directed projects that reflect your understanding of industry standards within a chosen field of fashion communication.
• Research and Concepts (30 credits) - Compulsory To provide the opportunity for self-directed research, develop and produce a series of self-directed projects that reflect the understanding of industry standards within a chosen field of fashion communication.
• Visual Cultures Research Project (30 credits) - Compulsory This module will help you develop the following skills and processes: to engage with the identification, organisation and development of a substantial, in-depth, self-directed Research Project (Dissertation) with a clear and sustained critical argument.

Teaching and Learning

You will learn through workshops, seminars, research, essays, and practical assignments. This is complemented by demonstrations from tutors, visiting lecturers, guest speakers, and technical staff.

Facilities and Support

• Course facilities The Special Collections are held in the Materials Room in the Sheppard Library and is a supervised room for research and inspiration. The extensive suite of 3D workshops houses an incredible range of facilities and machinery. Photography studios.
• Student support We offer lots of support to help you while you're studying including financial advice, wellbeing, mental health, and disability support.

Careers

This degree leads to a diverse range of fashion media roles including fashion photographer/videographer, creative director, fashion consultant/stylist, artistic director, fashion blogger/influencer, fashion event coordinator, set design/prop stylist, brand strategist, social media manager, fashion editor/writer, fashion marketing manager, fashion public relations specialist.

Entry Requirements

• Qualifications UCAS points: 112 UCAS tariff points. A-Level: BBC-BBB. BTEC: DMM-DDM. Access requirements: Overall pass: must include 45 credits at level 3, of which all 45 must be at Merit or higher.
• Portfolio You will need to submit your portfolio as part of the application process.

Fees

• UK students Full-time: £9,535. Part-time: £79 per taught credit.
• International students Full-time students: £16,600. Part-time students: £138 per taught credit.

Scholarships and Bursaries

We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries to help make uni affordable, including the MDX Excellence Scholarship and the Regional or International Merit Awards.