FA6033 - Fashion Business Project

You will attend weekly sessions, including a number of lectures outlining key considerations such as initial development of concepts, through to research methodology and ethical responsibility. Tutorials will then focus on individual formative support and feedback to assist you in the direction of your own unique project. Where possible, elements of the process will be supported through peer group discussion, to help you gain further knowledge of the wider fashion business sectors and industry developments and challenges.

A significant aspect of this module will be self-directed, encouraging you to independently and continuously engage with research materials relevant to your final submission.

The process of ongoing formative assessment/support, alongside draft development, will support you in learning the skills associated with long form writing. Further support will be available through the library, where you can gain further detailed guidance on the production of academic writing and accurate and appropriate referencing of research.

You will initially receive lectures outlining the goals and methods of the project you are asked to complete. These crucial first steps will support you in building the fundamental skills necessary to embark on writing a longform piece of academically considered writing.

Subsequently you will be individually supported by an assigned research supervisor. Supervisors will be allocated groups of students and the opportunity for discussion with peers will form aspects of the creative process. Independent support from supervisors will follow, allowing you to address direct considerations as part of your unique final piece. Your final outcome will be either a written academic project document or a professional fashion business report, each to be guided in sessions and alongside mentors/staff.

Further support regarding academic writing will be provided via the University Library.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:

1. Demonstrate the ability to independently source and engage with relevant primary and secondary research materials, academic research, fashion business data, and debates appropriate to your chosen subject (K&U1).

2. Develop and produce work that communicates knowledge and understanding of a key subject relating to contemporary fashion business processes, practices, and challenges (K&U2).

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

3. Demonstrate an advanced ability to select and appropriately apply a range of research methods and approaches to construct a coherent, well-structured argument that is supported by relevant appropriated referenced evidence (IPSA 3).

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

4. Evidence the ability to think independently and understand and justify arguments supported by data (PVA2).

5. Demonstrate decision-making, effective time management, and exploration of independent resources to iterate, research, produce, and deliver a self-directed learning project (PVA3).

This module will be summatively assessed at the end of the module through the following submissions:

Fashion Business Project Report (80%) - a business-oriented report that is formatted to a professional standard focusing on a relevant critical issue of concern linked to an area of fashion business and commerce and that is business/industry-stakeholder facing. This will be a 5000-word report, plus imagery, statistics and informational graphics. MLO 1, MLO 2, MLO 3, MLO 4).

Research and Development Review Document (20%)

This will include plans, drafts, work in progress and notes from tutorials with your project supervisor and a 500-word reflective statement that explains the research strategy you decided on and challenges (MLO5).

Summative feedback will be provided to students through the appropriate teaching and learning platform (Blackboard/Turnitin). Formative feedback will be delivered across the module.

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Having explored various elements of fashion business, this module enables you to focus on a fashion business subject of your own choosing. This can be the further exploration of a theme presented in the programme, or something completely new and a subject that is important to you and that you passionately feel needs to be critically examined. To do this, you will produce an academic analysis in the form of a 5000-word Fashion Business Project. You will also produce a reflective progress report that enables you to articulate your research strategy and decision-making – important research and employability skills. Therefore, this module offers you the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in a subject or topic area that you care about and that you are self-motivated to investigate and analyse in depth to prod cue a project that will be both personally enriching to you and which will represent a valuable component in your graduating portfolio of work.