Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fashion Branding and Marketing

at University of West London United Kingdom

MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Insight & Strategy the UK’s first postgraduate course focusing on fashion consumer trends analysis and innovation. This exciting course is part of our MA International Fashion Brand Management (MA IFBM) suite which offers six innovative programmes:

• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Insight & Strategy
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Phygital Luxury Fashion
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Circular Fashion
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Buying & Merchandising
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Visual Merchandising
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion PR & Communication

This course will teach you how to develop a greater awareness of the current practice and new technologies within fashion consumer insight and market intelligence disciplines, and how to apply findings to existing practices. You will analyse the role of fashion consumer insight and market intelligence and its relationship to strategic fashion brand management and brand identity by deconstructing findings into components.

You will underpin each component with historical and contemporary examples of fashion consumer and market intelligence strategies and innovation models. This pathway puts emphasis on digital developments and sustainable strategies for fashion insight.

Do you dream of running your own business in the hospitality industry? This specialist hospitality entrepreneurship degree has been designed to develop your entrepreneurial and corporate skills so that you can thrive in the fast-paced hospitality sector.

This innovative course was developed in response to the growing number of restaurant start-ups and other small businesses opening in the hospitality industry.

Your studies will focus on starting a new business and will take you from innovation through to implementation. If you already have a business idea, this course will give you the tools to develop your concept and write a business plan that helps bring it to fruition.

Our courses offer opportunities to discuss issues arising from the Covid crisis and examine solutions from a sector perspective. Our course content is developed with support from a wide network of sector professionals to include changes in the industry.

The Covid pandemic is creating challenges for the industry but is also driving innovation and change across the sector. Join this career-focused course and graduate in a strong position to be a part of the industry’s transformation.

Prepare for a rewarding career in international business with this hands-on course accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

This international business management degree is designed to give you real-world knowledge of the contemporary business landscape. You will learn essential business functions within an international context and how culture influences international management.

Our teaching is informed by current research and global practices, while our highly qualified, experienced staff will support your personal and professional development.

We maintain links with major professional institutes, including the CMI, to ensure the course remains current and to open up potential opportunities for students.

Do you have a degree or professional background in construction? Are you keen to develop and expand your career with a Masters in construction management?

Our MSc Construction Project Management course is designed to support your professional development and provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in today’s globalised and ever-changing construction industry.

Would you like to increase your versatility as a recording artist? Are you a musician who wants to become a music producer?

This course has been developed in response to current demands from the music industry. It aims to develop your skills as a performer and writer, along with your technical knowledge and to give you essential industry know-how that can help you to build your music career. During your studies you will have access to one of the largest audio complexes in Europe, which includes nearly 20 professionally equipped music studios, acoustically designed recording studios and multi-performance production studios.

This MSc Information Systems course aims to give you a full understanding of how information systems (IS) are designed, constructed and integrated within organisations. Your studies will take into account the large, varied and distributed structures of IS today, with multiple devices in different locations being used to access systems.

We welcome students from different educational and professional backgrounds who have an interest in IS, and you will benefit from our highly supportive culture and extensive industry experience.

Are you interested in why people commit crimes and how crime affects society? On this fascinating BA in Criminology you will gain an understanding of the nature and causes of crime, while examining how criminal justice systems work in the UK and abroad.

You will benefit from the expertise of highly experienced criminologists, and have opportunities to undertake work or voluntary work within the criminal justice system in the UK. Work-based learning is an integral part of this criminology course, giving you the chance to see first-hand the types of challenges that you will study in your theory modules.

Would you like to join the UK's fastest growing economy? Visual effects (VFX) is the process of creating digital effects for films, advertisements, television, games and augmented reality (AR). As an industry, it is worth over £71bn to the UK economy alone and demand for skilled graduates is only increasing.

On this course you will create dramatic Hollywood blockbuster effects as well as the subtler changes used in AR and 3D architectural visualisation. You will also learn to use advanced software, professional equipment and develop the techniques you need to build believable worlds.

During the course, industry practice modules will give you direct exposure to VFX roles and career opportunities.

Kickstart your entrepreneurial journey today with a media-savvy outlook with this hands-on, innovation-driven course.   You will learn what it takes to start your own successful business or turbocharge an existing company, whether it is starting a production company, creative agency or online business, developing a product or service, or using media to widen your influence.    You will be able to take your ideas from the classroom to the real world with practical modules designed to help you execute your goals.

The course is designed to help you substitute current creative projects as coursework. This can include:

• Productions you work on as part of a wider team,
• Commissions and
• On spec’ blue sky projects.

We also encourage:

• Workflow innovation and
• Business development activities.

As a result, you can be flexible with your time spent on the course which allows you to attend University just one day a week during term time.  For example, if you are working towards a clearer, more feasible and more profitable business this will be equivalent to participation in the course and will still enable you to receive feedback from experts and colleagues.    The knowledge and skills gained on this course will help shape your identity as an independent media entrepreneur able to seize opportunities and navigate the terrain of an ever-changing media landscape.

On our MA Global Black Studies course, we will situate Black studies, culture, and identity in a global context.  The master’s degree aims to unite global perspectives, through course modules you will investigate the underlying historical, cultural, and contemporary patterns of social change. We will look at social change in broad terms but also through specific case studies.

Throughout your studies you will have the chance to learn more about particular social groups and their interventions and contributions in global regions and local communities, such as:

• The legacy of African Chattel Enslavement
• The African and Caribbean diaspora
• The rise of indentured workers.
• The Windrush generations
• Black social activism.

The MA degree will also consider contemporary debates such as:

Black Lives Matter (BLM)

• Issues in education
• White privilege
• Policing
• The social justice system.

The course will also engage with a range of positive contributions made by the black diaspora in literature, music, film, theatre and the arts, science, business, grassroots activism, and campaigns for social justice.