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:
- solve problems independently in creative and innovative ways
- develop and manage your time effectively to set deadlines
- apply appropriate skills for professional practice and employability
- employ digital skills to support your learning
- present your work appropriately in a professional context
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- employability and professional practice within the Fashion Industry sector
- how to develop an appropriate plan for professional practice and further study
- 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:
- select appropriate methods for professional standard of research
- 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
Syllabus
This module will support you in understanding and processing employability within your subject specific contexts. It will allow you to focus on strategies for employment and define a method of engagement within a professional context
Indicative content for this module:
Research methods and planning
- Generating and applying new ideas
- The role of practice in action/ research
- Making full use of information and communication technologies
Professional Skills
- Digital /Creative content
- Building a CV
- Networking and the professional use of social media
- Presentation skills (preparation, presentation style and practice)
- Professional Blog
- Digital Portfolio
- Time management and project planning
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
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 20 |
| Tutorial | 2 |
| Completion of assessment task | 46 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 6 |
| Wider reading or practice | 20 |
| Follow-up work | 40 |
| Seminar | 6 |
| Lecture | 10 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
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).
Blackboard. Blackboard http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard
Academic Integrity support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity
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/
Textbooks
Donald A Schon (1991). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena). Ashgate.
Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison (2007). Research Methods in Education. Routledge.
Michael Polanyi (2009). The Tacit Dimension. Chicago University.
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.
Cotterell, S. (2015). Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability. London: Macmillan Education, Palgrave.
Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2009). You and Your Action Research Project. Routledge.
Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead (2009). Doing and Writing Action Research. Sage Publications.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Blog | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| 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.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Blog | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: External