Luxury Contexts

Module overview

This module delves into the evolving landscape of luxury, examining how external factors are reshaping the way brands, businesses and organisations manage their brands to ensure future success. The module provides historical contexts, tracing the evolution of luxury from ancient civilizations to modern times, the impact of industrialisation and core founders of luxury. It highlights how luxury has been a symbol of wealth, power, and prestige throughout history and explores the intersectionality of luxury and business and the sensibilities within this dynamic today. Students will develop an understanding of the key signifiers of luxury, such as craftmanship, quality, expertise or heritage. Through case studies and interactive discussions, the module equips participants with a strong foundation of knowledge aligned to the world that is luxury.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

ideas, objects, theories and makers that have informed the discipline in a global context

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

identify strengths and weaknesses in your academic skills

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

critically discuss luxury and its connection to culture and society, from both historical and contemporary contexts

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

test ideas through critical reflection using a variety of physical and digital sources

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include: •Lectures •Seminars •Workshops •Group tutorials •Independent self-study Learning methods include: •Accessing appropriate library and online material •Peer learning •In class group discussions •Independent study

Study time
Type	Hours
Teaching	48
Independent Study	252
Total study time	300

Assessment

Assessment strategy

Feedback on your own progress and development will be given by group discussions, critiques, self-evaluation, seminars and informal presentations. Informal feedback will provide opportunities for peer group learning, peer and self-evaluation. The focus of all taught content blocks in the first year, is to build a strong foundation of knowledge and skills to support progression to the second and final years. The emphasis is on your development in the first year and understanding how to use assessment as a learning tool, in order that you can become an independent learner, adapting and evolving to achieve your potential. Summative Assessment will take place at the end of your first year, this will be a portfolio of work from across all content blocks, including luxury contexts. To demonstrate the knowledge and skills developed against the learning outcomes, you are able to negotiate an outcome based on a number of different options that may include an essay, article or podcast, to allow you to select based on your own strengths and in recognition of the skills you are trying to develop for industry. or other outcome determined in negotiation with your tutor. Use of your own primary visual images will help you to develop visual research and analysis and to effectively present your critical engagement with consumer theory and practice.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Mentor verification of practice competencies

Assessment Type: Formative
Feedback:
Final Assessment:
Group Work: No

Summative

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%

Referral

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%

Module overview

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Transferable and Generic Skills

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Syllabus

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Assessment

Assessment strategy

Formative

Mentor verification of practice competencies

Summative

Referral

Repeat