Retail Futures

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• make independent judgements in the selection and use of fashion retail marketing and management resources and market information;
• apply critical and analytical skills and methodologies to problem solving situations and tasks;
• critically reflect on your own work and be able to demonstrate the effective application of research skills.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• manage your workload effectively with a high level of flexibility and autonomy;
• present your ideas and concepts in a structured and professional manner.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• the critical evaluation of fashion retailing strategies in a range of organisation types with consideration of contemporary issues impacting on fashion organisations;
• retail models, consumption theories, retail design, distribution and retail technologies, and their impact on creating successful retail propositions.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• illustrate a variety of different retail solutions for fashion brands and be able to propose enhancements, modifications or new concepts.

Formative

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

Report

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: A end of week 6 you will submit a one page summation of one of the topics covered in the module by this time; you will receive audio feedback by the end of week 7 on the submission, this will support development of your work towards the final summative assessment.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Draft piece

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: In weeks 9-10 you will submit slides to blackboard to present emerging ideas for a retail concept- this will take place in either a tutorial or seminar class. Through this formative exercise you will receive peer and tutor verbal feedback to support the development of your ideas in preparation for the final module summative submission- the retail report & illustrated concept design.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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

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.