Fashion Communication BA (Hons)
Option for Placement Year
Option for Study Abroad
Option for Placement Year
Option for Study Abroad
Please note: our Design courses are currently being updated therefore this course is subject to validation. First entry to this course is September 2025, for September 2024 entry, please visit Fashion Communication.
Fashion Communication focuses on preparing you for the dynamic and thriving communication and creative industries that support and promote the fashion sector. The course encourages the development of multiple skills in line with contemporary topics which influence the vast world of fashion. Modules explore the communication of fashion, through image, experience, and the written word, presented in multimedia outputs including publications, essays, editorial work, film, photography and more. The course boasts an impressive graduate recruitment rate and is represented across a range of industries and roles secured by our alumni. Fashion Communication students have the necessary drive and ambition to work in fashion collaborators, innovators and future leaders.
You will have the opportunity to take part in a placement year. This is a fantastic chance to gain real industry experience and we often find students who return from placements into final year are highly motivated and have a strong work ethic. Previous students have held placements at Adidas, Anthropologie, Barbour, H&M, House of Holland, The 223 Agency, plus many more.
See other similar courses you may be interested in: Fashion Design and Marketing, Fashion
UK Fee in Year 1*: TBC
* Government has yet to announce 25/26 tuition fee levels. As a guide, 24/25 fees were £9,250 per year.
International Fee in Year 1:
TBC
ADDITIONAL COSTS
There are no Additional Costs
Look out for module specifics coming soon! Please keep checking this web page for updated information.
This is your opportunity to engage with and test relevant subjects, disciplines and skillsets across modules to determine where your specialist fashion communication interests lie. This includes photography, styling, promotion, content creation and more. You will develop your technical, digital and soft skills through assessed presentations, publications, audio/visual, and portfolio work.
You become increasingly autonomous, with flexible opportunities across modules for greater critical enquiry, developing and refining your own specialist interests aligned to contemporary fashion communication practice. You will build on the skills introduced previously, moving towards the Industry Standards, developing your own practices in parallel to your key passions, giving you the confidence to excel in your final year of study.
The opportunity for Study Abroad/Work Placement, will allow you to enhance your work in parallel contemporary industry standards and understanding. This personal development impacts your professional aspirations; your capacity to defend your practice; and to formulate reasoned responses to critique, contextualising your work within the wider sector.
You seek to refine your practice, locating your work within current critical debate; further relying on your curiosity, imagination and empathy, to explore creative outputs. You have the opportunity to further self-direct your work, aligning projects, modules and assessments to the construction of your professional identity, including the building and enhancement of a graduate portfolio to assist your future employability.
The School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries is a leading centre for supporting and energising creative practice and academic study. Our inter-disciplinary research and experiential education is committed to the betterment of people, place, cultures, and societies. Our programmes are defined by the way we collaborate with communities, industry, and external partners to inform curriculum, your learning and contribute to wider society.
Given the variety of disciplines explored across the Fashion Communication degree, students often find a multitude of roles aligned to their skillset upon graduation. As a result, the course has a very high rate of graduate employment, with students finding meaningful and relevant work as they exit their degree.
We instil a professional focused ethos across the programme, giving you the opportunity and scope to hone and refine your interests and future aims. From high fashion styling to film making, to PR, planning and strategy, graduates of the course have secured roles working with the likes of Gucci, Vogue, Adidas and more.
A significant element of the course is the opportunity for you to explore an array of disciplines, honing and refining skills relevant to your interests.
Briefs often allow for flexibility where you can explore concepts and craft submissions which spotlight your skillset. From creating publications, to devising campaigns, to styling a shoot, opportunities range across modules, leading to work that truly represents you as a future fashion communicator.
Previous briefs have seen students work with Size?, Solomon, Dr Martens, Fenwick’s and more, giving a first-hand experience of the professional world you will enter upon graduation.
You will learn from award-winning, research-active academic staff who bring a wealth of professional experience from the world of fashion to Northumbria. Being taught by industry experts will allow you to develop the essential skills you need to succeed in your future career.
As a student of the course you will have access to host of facilities there to help you develop your digital and craft skills.
You will be able to hone your software skills across multiple platforms, from editorial and layout, to photomanipulation, to film editing and more. Multiple print facilities are available across campus, giving you access to large format inkjet, screenprinting and relief printing.
Our Laser Cutting and Book Binding Bureau facilitates projects of various size and scale, and our photography studio will allow you to produce imagery which meets the expectations and aesthetic standards of industry.
All information is accurate at the time of sharing.
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Contact time is subject to increase or decrease in line with possible restrictions imposed by the government or the University in the interest of maintaining the health and safety and wellbeing of students, staff, and visitors if this is deemed necessary in future.
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