Graduate Diploma Fashion Management and Marketing

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:

• First degree (2:2 or above) or FDA with a merit/distinction profile in any discipline, or equivalent qualifications / awards.

APEL (Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning)

Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

• Related academic or work experience
• The quality of the personal statement
• A strong academic or other professional reference
• OR a combination of these factors

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

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All our postgraduate courses offer career development, so that you become a creative thinker, making effective contributions to your relevant sector of the fashion industry.

LCF offers students the opportunity to develop Personal and Professional Development (PPD) skills while studying through:

* Access to to speaker programmes and events featuring alumni and industry.

* Access to careers activities, such as CV clinics and one-to-one advice sessions.

* Access to a graduate careers service

* Access to a live jobsboard for all years.

* Advice on setting up your own brand or company.

Career paths

Our students mainly go onto managerial positions within the fashion industry, these can be in the following areas:

• Digital marketing and communications
• Product management and sustainability
• Retail operations and omni channel strategy

Graduates of this course have gone on to work in a number of roles within the industry, at companies including Burberry and Salvatore Ferragamo. Graduates from this course are also equipped to develop and further their academic lives through Masters courses, and some to continue on to Research Degrees and PhDs.

With support from LCF Careers and the Centre for Fashion Enterprise, students are supported throughout the course to progress into the fashion industry or onto further postgraduate study.

Block One:  
For the first 15 weeks of the course there is focus on providing an understanding of the fashion industry through theoretical frameworks.

• Unit 1: Fashion Contexts (Weeks 1- 5) 20 Credits - This unit focuses on the consumer of fashion in a cultural and commercial context with emphasis on the nature of consumer demand on an individual level It is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars and formative assessment. This unit provides the academic framework to develop curiosity, the enthusiasm to seek out new perspectives and to create and build on existing knowledge through systematic academic enquiry. 
• Unit 2: Fashion Organisations (Weeks 6 – 15) 20 Credits - This unit looks at the internal operations of a fashion organisation; including its business structure, supply chain and issues of sustainability and the various positions within the fashion organisation such as the roles of the buyer and designer. The unit shows the fashion organisation as one that can accommodate constant change, and how a business must be open to encouraging openness and agility for possible futures that could restore and regenerate environmental injustices. 
• Unit 3: Fashion Communications (Weeks 6 – 15) 20 Credits - This unit looks at the outward facing communications of a fashion company; its ability to fulfil customers’ demands. This unit will also develop your ability to collaborate with others, create networks and contribute to communities of practice. This is contextualised through teamwork through the understanding of how companies segment, target position themselves and communicate with their customers using all the available channels of communication

Block Two:

• Graduate Diploma: Final Major Project (60 Credits) - In this Block you will complete your Final Major Project (FMP). You will be given the opportunity to choose between either a dissertation or a fashion business development project. Both options will give you a valuable body of work to present to either a prospective employer, or, as part of an application for future study. Both options allow you to demonstrate proactivity, initiative, hard work and passion through the investigation or study of an emerging issue or new proposal. You are expected to demonstrate resourcefulness in pursuing these opportunities for an ethical and sustainable outcome  An important part of your learning process will be your formative presentations to staff and peers to develop your skills in advocacy. As part of this unit you will also submit a ‘Professional Portfolio’, which will include a reflective statement on your experience of the course and demonstrating how this has your informed future career aspirations. The Professional Portfolio will allow you to demonstrate academic and personal skills in your chosen field. The Final Major Project and the Professional Portfolio are submitted as two elements and marked separately.