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Fashion Branding & Communication* BA (Hons)

with or without Professional Practice Year

UCA Epsom - 2021

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Length of study:

Three years full-time

Or, Four years full-time with Professional Practice Year

Campus:

UCA Epsom

Start date:

September

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Entry year(s)

2021

Entry requirements:

112 UCAS tariff points

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UCAS institution code:

C93

UCAS code:

WN65

UCAS code for course with Professional Practice:

WN66

Course overview

Fashion Branding & Communication at UCA Epsom combines industry knowledge and experience with creative processes that explore the relationships between promotion, public relations and branding.

You'll develop areas in fashion promotion and create brand identity through various forms of visual communication and adapting skills across a wide range of creative media, including photography, film, graphics, print, digital design, and Interactive media.

You will learn and explore how brands communicate and operate through business and innovative thinking, and visualise these projects with software packages such as the Adobe Creative Cloud suites, so you can develop your creative ideas to communicate with consumers.

Fashion promotion and public relations is about build lasting relationships and positive reputations, through communication, self-promotion, networking and technology.

As a graduate of this course, you will be equipped to enter a variety of potential careers where it is vital to have knowledge and expertise in managing stakeholder relationships and reputation, and enacting the technical and strategic communication advisor roles in the creative industries. 

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Course details

  • Summary

    This course will cover the many different aspects of branding, communications and promotion within the fashion industry - culminating in your final project and dissertation. 

    During your course, you'll have the opportunity to study abroad for part of your second year. To find out more about studying abroad as part of your course please see the Study Abroad section.

    If you opt to complete a professional practice year, this will take place in year three. You will undertake a placement within the creative industries to further develop your skills and CV.

    While on the Professional Practice Year, you will be required to pay a reduced tuition fee for that year. This fee will be determined using government funding regulations. Based on current regulations, we expect this to be a maximum of 20% of the tuition fee rate that you are charged for your second year of study. You will also incur additional travel and accommodation costs during this year. The University will provide you with further advice and guidance about this as you approach your Professional Practice Year.

     

  • Fees and additional course costs

    Tuition fees
    The course fees for 2021 entry are not confirmed yet but as a guide the fees per year for 2020 entry are:

    • UK and EU students - £9,250 
    • International students - £16,250 (standard fee)
    • International students - £15,600 (full early payment fee)

    Additional course costs
    Details for the additional course costs for 2021 will be published here as soon as they are available.

    Further information
    Find out more about our course fees and any financial support you may be entitled to:

    These fees are correct for the stated academic year only. Costs may increase each year during a student’s period of continued registration on course in line with inflation (subject to any maximum regulated tuition fee limit). Any adjustment for continuing students will be at or below the RPI-X forecast rate.

  • Fees and additional course costs

Professional Practice Year

You have the option to complete a Professional Practice Year as part of this course.

You’ll spend two years learning with us, before putting what you’ve learned into practice through a year-long industry placement.

Our Professional Practice placements give you the opportunity to develop your professional, academic and personal potential, equipping you to be confident and engaged in creative workplaces. These qualities are widely recognised by employers and a significant proportion of placement students nationally are offered graduate-level jobs or go onto postgraduate study.

Throughout your placement, your course team will support you, making use of our extensive industry connections to help facilitate you to find about the right placement for you. On conclusion of the placement, you’ll return to complete your final year of study – applying what you’ve learned on the job. 

Summary specification 2021 entry

Student regulations

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change in line with our Student Terms and Conditions for example, as required by external professional bodies or to improve the quality of the course.

Business School

The first of its kind in the UK, our new Business School for the Creative Industries builds on our long tradition of collaborating with employers to cultivate leadership, entrepreneurial and problem-solving skills.

More about the Business School

Facilities

Fashion Branding & Communication students have a dedicated course studio and study space, access to campus print making workshops with dedicated technical support, campus photographic studios with lighting rigs, green screen lighting set up and digital media suites equipped with Macs and PCs, programmed with specialist design software. Students also have access to screen printing and bookbinding facilities, together with wood workshops for set building.

Programme Director

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Mark O'Connor

Programme Director Fashion Communication

Mark leads our journalism, promotion and communication courses at UCA Epsom. Before joining UCA he spent many years in the journalism industry working as a writer, stylist and fashion editor on national newspapers and magazines.

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What our students say

"The tutors helped guide me through my creative thoughts and turn them into processes that I then could take into the real world. They were good at helping me understand the importance of prioritising and finding a balance, which I still try and use today."

Ashley Deverell, graduate

"The nature of the course invited collaboration in a way that would invariably tip over into outside university hours as well. The whole experience was a creative process, from bonding over breakfast in the canteen to knuckling down for deadline days."

Navaz Batliwalla, graduate

Course connections

On this course, you'll be exposed to a world of opportunities

  • Industry links

    This course is highly regarded in the fashion world, and we have forged many strong industry connections, including:

    • Nike
    • Swarovski
    • CROWTHER/PLANT
    • Good Ordering
    • Lazy Oaf
    • Patternity
    • K-Swiss
    • LSN Global
    • BERTHOLD
    • The Future Laboratory
    • BBH
    • WGSN
    • A.P
    • Paul Smith.

    Visiting professionals

    We host a number of visiting lecturers, including:

    • Laura Vent – art director
    • Susannah Jones - PR expert
    • Nick Maroudias - photographer
    • Cian McConn – artist
    • Mark Wells – designer
    • Louise Naunton Morgan – artist
    • Mark Thomson – art director
    • Chris Colville-Walker – art director
    • Jason Hughes – fashion editor
    • Anna Lomax - set designer
    • Sophie Stephens - illustrator
    • Willem Jaspert – photographer
    • Carolina Daher – art director
    • Jacqui Ma – trends researcher
    • Ruth Marshall-Johnson – trends researcher
    • Simone Konu – stylist
    • Katja Mayer - photographer
    • Ivana Bobic – director
    • Greta Ilieva – photographer.
  • Careers

    Our graduates have secured many rewarding career positions throughout the fashion industry, for example as: 

    • Fashion editor
    • Showroom manager
    • Art director
    • PA to artistic director
    • Press officer
    • Set designer
    • Artist
    • Editorial assistant
    • Trend researcher
    • Producer
    • Prop assistant
    • Researcher
    • Illustrator
    • Filmmaker
    • Film editor
    • Graphic designer

    Our graduates have progressed these roles at the following companies, to name but a few:

    • ASOS
    • Celine
    • Paul Smith
    • GQ Style
    • Margaret Howell
    • L’Oreal
    • Benefit
    • Asprey
    • Aromatherapy Associates
    • Farfetch
    • Porter
    • Oki-Ni
    • Burberry
    • Chanel
    • Dazed & Confused
    • Artistry
    • A.P
    • Alexander McQueen
    • Fashion East
    • Juergen Teller
    • Katie Shillingford
    • Benjamin Bruno
    • Storm Models
    • The British Fashion Council.
  • Further study

    You may also like to consider further study at postgraduate level.

     

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Entry requirements

UK entry requirements

Along with your portfolio, the standard entry requirements* for this course are:

One of the following:

  • 112 new UCAS tariff points, see accepted qualifications
  • Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Level 3 or 4)
  • Distinction, Merit, Merit at BTEC Extended Diploma
  • Merit at UAL Extended Diploma
  • 112 new UCAS tariff points from an accredited Access to Higher Education Diploma in appropriate subject
  • 27-30 total points in the International Baccalaureate Diploma with at least 15 IB points at Higher level, see more information about IB entry requirements.

And four GCSE passes at grade A*-C and/or grade 4-9 including English (or Functional Skills English/Key Skills Communication Level 2).

Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 UK and international qualifications are considered on an individual basis, and we encourage students from diverse educational backgrounds to apply.

*We occasionally make offers which are lower than the standard entry criteria, to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve higher results. We consider the strength of our applicants’ portfolios, as well as their grades - in these cases, a strong portfolio is especially important.

International entry requirements

To view the equivalent entry requirements for your country please select it in the list below.

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Non-UK equivalent qualifications

English language requirements

Don't meet the international entry requirements or English language requirements?

You may be able to enter the course through the following entry courses:

Pre-sessional English courses in the UK or China

UCA International Foundation courses

The UCA International College

Your portfolio

No formal portfolio is required for this course. But, if you want to bring work for discussion at your interview, you're welcome to do so. We'll require you to attend an Applicant Day which will include an interview. This will also give you the opportunity to visit us, meet the course team and see the facilities.

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