Creative Industries Management in Fashion (top-up)

UCAS code: N103

Here's what University for the Creative Arts says about its Creative Industries Management in Fashion (top-up) course.

Become the business behind the brand. One year to think strategically and lead creatively.

Fashion doesn't just need designers and craftspeople – it needs the people who know how to build, position, and sustain the brands behind them. This one-year top-up is for students with a foundation degree or equivalent, who are ready to develop the kind of strategic thinking, research capability, and professional identity that the fashion industry needs.

You'll study within a specialist school where fashion, business, media, and branding sit side by side. The course sharpens your ability to analyse the creative industries within a global context – exploring innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and emerging technologies – then channels that thinking into a major project aligned to your career ambitions.

Whether your direction is buying, management, marketing, or launching something of your own, you'll graduate with the critical insight and commercial confidence to make it happen.

Year 1 (equivalent in level to year 3 of BA course) During this top-up year you achieve a greater level of independence with self-managed research, study and practice, resulting in a final business project. Business Strategy for Fashion You will learn, in this unit, to develop knowledge and understanding of the terminology of strategy and its relevance to strategic decision making within the fashion industry. You will learn the fundamental decisions made in the field of strategy covering three strategic dimensions i.e. strategy process, strategy content and strategy context. Marketing Strategy and Planning for Fashion The strategy is what it is you want to achieve and the plan is how you are going to do it – we’ll teach you how to do both, gaining fundamental understanding of marketing concepts and your insights gained in differentiating the role of the marketing manager in domestic and international marketing decision making (Global Marketing), as well as the practical knowledge and skills of marketing process. Enterprise Sustainability and Business Ethics for Fashion Ethical behaviour and corporate social responsibility can bring significant benefits to a business and as sustainability now forms part of the everyday consciousness of the consumer its presence will be permanent. We will present you with the concept of business ethics and develop your abilities to examine its relevance to the fashion industry. Entrepreneurship and Creativity This unit provides an overall insight into entrepreneurship and the creative approaches to the study of entrepreneurship. You will investigate the factors, which underpin successful entrepreneurship activities for small and medium sized organisations. You will also explore issues related to individuals and enterprise entrepreneurial mint-set, as well as small and family businesses. Business Research for Fashion This unit aims to develop your skills of independent enquiry and critical analysis by undertaking a sustained research project. You will be expected to addresses the elements that make up formal research including research proposal, research methodologies, action planning, carrying out research itself and presenting both primary and secondary findings. Final Business Project Your Final Business Project allows you to develop your skillset of independent enquiry enabling you to undertake a sustained research investigation of direct relevance to your area of interest and professional development.