Fashion and Beauty Media
Solent University (Southampton)
UCAS Code: FBT1 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
From a minimum of 2 A Levels
Accepted when studied alongside other Level 3 qualifications
Access to HE Diploma
Pass in Access course with 60 credits overall including 45 Level 3 credits passed with a minimum of Merit.
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OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma
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OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma
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Pearson BTEC Diploma (QCF)
Pearson BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF)
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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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From a minimum of 2 A Levels or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Extended Diploma or OCR Extended Diploma. For detailed information on accepted qualifications, please view our Course Entry Statement (https://www.solent.ac.uk/how-to-apply/documents/course-entry-requirement-statement.pdf) Solent University is a proud champion of widening participation. For further information about our contextual offer, please visit our website (https://www.solent.ac.uk/how-to-apply/what-next/contextual-offers)
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About this course
The fashion and beauty industry are increasingly looking for dynamic and multi-skilled practitioners to produce a range of 360° content across editorial and commercial platforms. This degree will support you to become a fashion and beauty industry storyteller, using words, pictures, film, virtual and digital graphics to create the innovative and sustainable editorial and promotional campaigns of the future.
This exciting, real-world course, run by industry experts, teaches you how to create fashion and beauty content and plan impactful, sustainable social media strategies, create trend-driven story-telling, design industry-ready campaigns, and analyse markets to understand how the editorial and commercial worlds of fashion and beauty connect designing innovative and fresh ways to engage audiences and translate a passion for fashion and beauty content to a global multimedia stage.
If you’re unsure whether you’d best suit a career in PR, editorial, marketing, trend forecasting or creative content design we will help you to explore the wealth of opportunities and future trends the fashion and beauty industries have to offer and allow you to keep your options open and gain a professional portfolio in a wide variety of media disciplines that you refine and specialise as you progress towards a career that’s right for you.
You will study a range of industry focused modules including influencer marketing, fashion and beauty photography, virtual fashion, circular fashion and sustainability, fashion and beauty photography, marketing and PR and media business alongside key modules on styling and writing for fashion and beauty print and digital platforms.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
Solent's Fashion and Beauty Media course is ideally suited to students who want to develop professional written, photographic, digital and design skills to create innovative and exciting promotional and editorial campaigns for leading fashion and beauty brands, magazines and social media. Students will want to develop their own, unique method of storytelling to create a varied portfolio of industry-ready content from the first day of their studies, be introduced to leading industry experts, work on real-world briefs with known editorial and marketing brands and collaborate with like-minded students from other fashion disciplines.
WHAT DOES THIS COURSE LEAD TO?
This course can lead to a wide variety of careers in fashion and beauty marketing and promotion, social media strategy and content creation, magazine journalism, influencer marketing, PR, fashion and beauty photography, event management, advertising and within digital creative agencies offering editorial and commercial content production.
FACILITIES
Course facilities include an extensive media loans programme, providing access to high-end DSLR cameras such as the Canon 5D MKII, an extensive range of lenses (including many ‘L’ series and Prime lenses), 35mm cameras, medium format cameras (645, 6x7 and 6x9), large format 5x4 cameras and lenses, and a full stock of accessories – light meters, tripods, flash guns, remote-controlled boom-mounted flash systems and more.
You’ll also have access to our digital reprographics lab, featuring commercial-standard and large-format printers, flatbed scanners, three Hasselblad drum scanners scanning up to 5x4 size and a colour-calibrated ProMac-based reprographic suite. Our recently rebuilt colour and black-and-white darkrooms are of the highest industry standards and students can also freely use our in-house colour film processing machine. Additionally, we have finishing and film processing rooms, a modern multimedia lab featuring 24 iMacs with Adobe CS6 Suite Master Collection and Final Cut Pro, plus large professional photographic studios and associated make-up and styling rooms.
Modules
YEAR 1 - CORE MODULES
Fashion Communities and Networks
Fashion Research and Visualisation
Making Magazines
PR and Marketing
The Fashion & Beauty Industry
The Fashion Image
YEAR 2 - CORE MODULES
Creative Media Practice
Design for Marketing and Promotion
The Fashion and Beauty Writer
The Fashion Frame
The Fashion Influencer
YEAR 2 - OPTIONS (please note that options are not guaranteed to run each academic year).
Branding and Indentity
Fashion Media Business
YEAR 3 - CORE MODULES
Portfolio Development
The Media Event
Virtual Fashion
Work Based Learning
YEAR 3 - OPTIONS (please note that not all options are guaranteed to run each academic year)
Dissertation
Final Major Project
Assessment methods
The course, in the first year, is taught through a kind of academic apprenticeship with real-world learning workshops embedded throughout the two semesters with practice sessions, tutorial and seminars to allow students to develop and reflect their practice. Second and third year is mainly taught through seminars, workshops and tutorials.
The emphasis in first year is experimentation.
In the second year study is focused more on the refinement of ideas and the execution of key outputs. Students begin to investigate the nuances of careers in the fashion and beauty industry and tailor their outputs to begin building an industry standard portfolio of creative communication and editorial work.
This year allows the student to specialise and professionalise their learning via portfolio assessments, vivas and presentations.
Assessments are tailored towards specific fashion and/or beauty industry outputs which will be communicated to students via a unit brief and unit handbooks.
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Extra funding
Solent University offers a number of bursaries, grants and scholarships. For more information, please visit https://www.solent.ac.uk/finance/grants-bursaries-scholarships/bursaries
The Uni
Solent University (Southampton)
Department of Art and Music
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