The Flock Prospectus

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Information Technology is extremely critical within any design programme. Students will get an introduction to software such as photoshop, inDesign through to creating professional and creative powerpoints.

In second year, students get chance to really build upon these skills. [Further modules include Creative Presentations, Information Technology Theory & Practice, Contemporary Design Influences and Brand.]

They will think about concepts in greater depth through their larger modules including Fashion Promotion and Events. With this, they will not only focus upon the nature and theme of the event but the implementation, logistics and marketing behind this also.

Final year is very much student led. One of the key things that we do in this year is Fashion Enterprise. This allows students to set up on their own a small independent business for the year, which is to be liquidated at the end. This enables them to gain experience in possibly setting up their own businesses and providing them with the understanding of the structure of a business.

For students’ Final Major Projects (Project Research and Concept Realisation and Promotion modules), they will take an aspect learnt from previous years and produce a concept based around this. For example, this may be a new Fashion Magazine programme, which may have a physical magazine that supports it to involve and engage its public audience. So far, our final year students have come up with some amazing projects for this.

FLOCK: Since Fashion Communication does not contain the industrial placement year; Fashion Communication students still gain a lot of work experience. What are the possible work placements students undertaken whilst on this course?

S.M: The work placements our students usually undertake are often to do with catwalk production. However, there are a vast variety of other work placements our students ~77~