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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

Textbooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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