Final Project (Fashion Management)

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate that you can articulate and communicate in a professional manner appropriate to the chosen topic
• manage your progress in an effective way during an extended self-directed project.
• create work that respects both the standards of academic integrity and the rights and interests of others;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• recognise your development needs in relation to a developing project, and expand your research and academic skills as needed.
• draw on a range of appropriate academic and industry-relevant resources to create appropriate and well-targeted evidence for your project;
• apply critical judgment to your own work as well as the work of others to create a project that contributes to an understanding of a contemporary fashion management issue;

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate advanced level knowledge of Fashion Management informed by design, management and marketing theory, tailored around the needs of the global fashion industry;
• demonstrate the ability to question and evaluate the parameters of contemporary fashion, design, business and management practice and theory.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• a range of contemporary contexts relevant to fashion management informed by leading research.
• current theories and practices related to fashion management arising from your in-depth research and enquiry;

The aim of this module is to promote a self-directed study which leads to the presentation of your discipline specific final project. The module aims to bring together and use your learning and skills development from previous modules. Through those modules, you will have established and explored in diverse ways the scope and focus of your ideas. Preparatory lectures and seminars will be followed by a supervision period of one-to-one tutorials where your tutor will advise and guide you in a manner that will enable you to independently apply the academic skills you have acquired to prepare and manage the final project.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• Tutor guidance
• Supervision/one-to-one tutorials

Learning activities include:

• Independent study (reading material as directed by tutor, analysing material delivered during taught sessions, writing up notes, reflecting on taught material and feedback, conducting research, analysing results and writing up project).

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Cottrell, S. (2014). Dissertations and Project Reports. Palgrave Macmillan.

Bell, J. and Waters, S. (2014). Doing Your Research Project. Oxford University Press.

Teddlie, C and Tashakkori, A. (2008). Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Gray, D.E. (2013). Doing Research in the Real World. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Brennen, B.S. (2012). Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies. Routledge.

Krippendorff, K. (2013). Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Bryman, A. (2015). Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Seale, C (2017). Researching Society and Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Pallant, J. (2016). SPSS Survival Manual. Open University Press.

Krueger, R, A, and Casey, M. A. (2015). Focus Groups: a Practical Guide for Applied Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Banks, M. and Zeitlyn, D. (2015). Visual Methods in Social Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Saunders, M.N.K, Lewis, P. and Thornhill, A. (2012). Research Methods for Business Students. Prentice Hall.

Yin, R.K. (2013). Case Study Research. Thousand Oaks CA: SAGE Publications.

Rose, G. (2016). Visual Methodologies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Formative

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

Summative

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

Referral

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

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External