Professional and Industry Context for Fashion

Module overview

This module will introduce you to personal and professional skills focussed on gaining employment within the Fashion Industry. It will develop your understanding and encourage you to engage with key thinking and examples of employability within your chosen area of Fashion Design. The first semester of the final year is a critical juncture for reflecting on professional aims and objectives and planning your future career, as you are about to undertake your final project on the programme. This module will enhance your ability to position yourself within your chosen field of the Fashion Industry and equip you with a strategy for employment.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

evaluate and apply a variety of academic approaches to contextualise your practice
select appropriate methods for professional standard of research
analyse your current practice for discipline direction and orientation
identify and apply the skills you need to practice professionally in fashion design and creative industries

Knowledge and Understanding

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

the recruitment process, including specifics of the application process
employability and professional practice within the Fashion Industry sector
how to develop an appropriate plan for professional practice and further study

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

develop and manage your time effectively to set deadlines
present your work appropriately in a professional context
employ digital skills to support your learning
apply appropriate skills for professional practice and employability
solve problems independently in creative and innovative ways

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include •lectures •seminars •tutorials •workshops Learning activities include •independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback •independent research •online reference material •tutorial notes •peer group learning •class discussions •Study Skills support

Study time
Type	Hours
Preparation for scheduled sessions	20
Completion of assessment task	46
Wider reading or practice	20
Tutorial	2
Seminar	6
Lecture	10
Follow-up work	40
Practical classes and workshops	6
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing

Study Skills Workshops. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/workshops/

Academic Integrity support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash

Working on Papers in Art and Design. an on-line refereed Journal (This journal can be accessed through the TDNet Journals Gateway on the WSA Library Webcat).

Blackboard. Blackboard http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard

Textbooks

Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison (2007). Research Methods in Education. Routledge.

Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2009). You and Your Action Research Project. Routledge.

Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2009). Doing and Writing Action Research. Sage Publications.

Cottrell, S (2013). The Study Skills Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Donald A Schon (1991). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena). Ashgate.

Michael Polanyi (2009). The Tacit Dimension. Chicago University.

Cotterell, S. (2015). Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability. London: Macmillan Education, Palgrave.

Gray, C & Malins, J (2004). Visualizing Research. (Electronic Resource): A Guide To The Research Process In Art And Design. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington: Ashgate.

Assessment

Summative

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Blog	100%

Referral

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Blog	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
Blog	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: External