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

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

select appropriate methods for professional standard of research
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
analyse your current practice for discipline direction and orientation

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

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

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

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/

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).

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

Textbooks

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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