Year One

• Fashion Behind the Lens
  This module provides the technical foundation to the course, providing students with the knowledge and skills to use a wide range of traditional image-capture technologies and techniques, both film-based and digital. Students will be encouraged to access and experiment with the course’s extensive inventory of professional-grade equipment. Alongside developing technical know-how, the module also builds on issues encountered in the “History, Contexts and Near Future of Photography” module, encouraging students to focus their thinking through a fashion-specific lens.
• Fashion Beyond the Lens
  This module builds on the foundational “Behind the lens” module, encouraging students to experiment with moving image, immersive technologies, AI and sound. Alongside exploring the latest and emergent digital capture technologies, students will continue to develop their understanding of the key issues pertinent to fashion and lifestyle contexts. Fashion-specific case-studies are again used to contextualise key themes examined in the accompanying lecture series, with students tasked to respond creatively through a bi-weekly work cycle. The emphasis is on experimentation and innovation, with students working toward the creation of new experiences and possibilities for Fashion Photography.
• History, Context and Near-Future of Photography
  This module begins students on a journey they will undertake as photographer, subject and audience, through Photography’s ever-expanding world.
  It encourages you to explore the photographic world through global, historical, technological, ethical and theoretical perspectives, providing a foundational toolkit for conceptualising and contextualising their practice.
  You will understand the huge cultural influence that photography has in society as the module challenges you to rethink what you know about the subject.
  Through a combination of interactive-lectures and research-driven, presentational tasks, the module challenges students to rethink what they know about the subject and develop a vocabulary that will further your visual literacy and professional integrity.

Year Two

• CoLab: Research, Exploration and Risk-Taking
  Through active participation with team-based problem-solving, you will work together in mixed teams on a project where you will use your creative ideas to generate solutions to the challenge or brief. Your project will allow you to explore how creativity can make an impact in society, as you choose a theme of sustainability, social justice, enterprise and innovation or community. This collaborative learning experience will expose you to a range of new processes and approaches that will develop your creative thinking.
• Fashion Assignments
  This module offers students the opportunity to further develop and apply the thematic and practical tools accrued in the first year, through a series of live fashion assignments. The emphasis is on moving creatively from interpreting a client brief, to ideas, to realisation, enabling students to interrogate their own creative process while ensuring that the client’s intent is clearly and compellingly communicated. The bi-weekly production cycle is maintained, with students directed to foster creative and collaborative approaches to problem solving through a series of briefs representing different career strands and outputs.
• Fashion Lab
  This module offers students an open and creative platform to further develop their ideas and more freely pursue their aesthetic vision from the end of Level 4. Students will be encouraged to reflect on their own personal skills and passions as part of their creative investigations, without commercial expectation of a fully resolved outcome. The module functions as an experimental and innovative play-space that informs and is informed by participants’ visions for the fashion industry and their reflections on the “The History, Context and Near Future of Photography” module.
• Optional Modules
  Optional modules are mandatory across all our courses and enable you to personalise your studies by choosing from up to eight optional modules. This is a great opportunity to expand your learning and discover new areas of interest to inspire your work, influence your future career, or postgraduate study.
  • Publishing: Experimental Formats
  • Telling Stories
  • Music Video
  • Sound Art & Design
  • Ethical Design
  • Digital Marketing & Communication

Year Three

• Optional Placement Year (Sandwich)*
  We have an option for all of our students to undertake a placement year (Sandwich) and allow you to decide whether this is right for you once you have completed years 1 and 2 of your course. This time spent working in industry provides our students with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation. If you are successful in securing a placement you will have the chance to gain an additional Certificate or Diploma in Professional Practice, dependent on duration.
  * If you choose to take the sandwich route option, you will still need to apply for this course with the full-time UCAS code: W641
  

Final year

• Sketchpad
• Launchpad
• The Recent Past and Near Future of Creative Storytelling