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What will I learn on this module?
In this module, you will craft a professional fashion portfolio to showcase your creative identity, tailored to your career aspirations in industry, enterprise, or post-graduate education outlined in your Career Readiness Plan (CRP). This portfolio will represent the culmination of your academic, creative, and professional expertise, highlighting your specialised skills in pattern cutting, print, knit, or digital technologies. It will articulate your design philosophy, engage with current debates, and emphasise responsible design practices in align with your own values and interests. To achieve this, you will elevate your communication skills and employ divergent and critical thinking to address the complexities of presenting your Level 6 work to diverse audiences and for a range of purposes, such as interviews, assessments, or competitions. You will demonstrate autonomy and professionalism in responding to opportunities and unexpected challenges in a decisive and professional manner.
Your portfolio will explicitly address entry-level workplace requirements, integrating your unique perspective on global issues, innovative solutions to design problems, and your vision for the future of fashion. You will select portfolio formats (2D, 3D, 4D, or mixed, multichannel approach) aligned with your CRP and promotional opportunities. Content will include a CV and various self-promotional materials, such as social media profiles, personal websites, and industry platforms.
How will I learn on this module?
In this module you will learn through a diverse range of activities and methods that immerse you in the dynamic world of design challenges and fashion futures. Your learning will feature workshops, group discussions, tutorials and short lectures to underpin the knowledge, skills and autonomous and collaborative working methods you will need to create your portfolio. This will include practical guidance on how to maintain a consistent brand across multichannel platforms, which might include physical and virtual formats, social media (Instagram, LinkedIn), websites, film, exhibitions, and shows; networking and interview skills. Traditional, new and emerging technologies are used both in the delivery, observation and realisation of outcomes.
Your interactive Career Readiness Plan (CRP) is a reflective learning tool managed by you to align your learning process to your career path and demonstrate autonomy and develop employability skills. You will plan and develop your portfolio alongside your CRP to bring together your creative identity, personal values, professional ambitions and your skills, knowledge, experience, and achievements. You will identify your chosen progression route(s) and use it to plan and create a flexible portfolio that can be adapted quickly to multichannel formats to take advantage of emerging opportunities.
How will I be supported academically on this module?
At the start of the module, the creative brief, learning plan, learning outcomes, work requirements and assessment process will be presented verbally and visually by the module tutor.
Delivery of this module will be a mix of practical studio sessions, workshops, lectures, seminars, group and individual tutorials. Blended studio-based work will facilitate the development of introductory fashion thinking and practice. Directed Study will be set regularly with specific set tasks to underpin your learning and inspire independent enquiry or study.
Throughout the module, you will receive ongoing formative feedback in formal and informal tutorials. Feedback may be verbal or written.
To be successful in this module it is important to engage with all sessions and all forms of delivery.
After summative assessment, you will receive formal constructive written feedback and a grade indicating your achievement in relation to the learning outcomes. Additionally, you will be offered a tutorial with members of the academic team
In addition to your module tutors, you will be supported by various other members of staff and university services including;
o Technicians aligned with your modules to provide technical instruction and demonstration of equipment and software required to complete you project work;
o Library staff to guide you in the ongoing development of essential study: IT skills, information retrieval skills and academic writing via Skills Plus;
o Academic Language Skills modules to help students at the Northumbria Campuses whose first language is not English or who have no experience studying in English in the UK.
What will I be expected to read on this module?
All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)
What will I be expected to achieve?
Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Show expertise in the skilled use of fashion applications, tools, methods and production processes to professional standards.
Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
3. Effectively communicate and present creative and complex fashion design solutions to professional standards.
9. Create a well-curated fashion portfolio and self-promotional material that effectively communicates skills, accomplishments, and the evolution of fashion design practice
Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
4. Show judgment in taking calculated risks and developing new fashion design strategies when confronted with complex or unfamiliar challenges.
5. Show professionalism, self-management and leadership through participation in fieldwork, fashion design projects or exhibitions, that have a contemporary or future facing focus.
How will I be assessed?
You will be formatively assessed using verbal feedback during timetabled sessions at key stages of the portfolio development process.
You will be summatively assessed at the end of the module through the submission or exhibition of a multichannel portfolio. More detailed submission requirements will be supplied in your individual design brief.
At this summative stage you will receive initial verbal feedback during your exhibition or presentation, followed up by additional written feedback on your portfolio submission.
Deliverables:
Professional Fashion Portfolio (suitable for adaptation for multichannel platforms and diverse audiences), the equivalent of
Approx. 40 pages that include 2D and 3D Digital Fashion collection outcomes, live and competition briefs
Example formats: Physical/digital/film; Online portfolios, CLO3D, promotional materials, etc.
Example Platforms: northumbriafashion.com, ArtsThread, GFW, etc.); Exhibitions (Reveal, GFW)
MLOs:
KU 1
IPSA 3, 9
PVA 4, 5
Pre-requisite(s)
N/A
Co-requisite(s)
N/A
Module abstract
As a graduating B.A. (Hons.) Fashion student your portfolio shows your readiness to begin your career as a fashion professional in an everchanging fashion landscape. It encapsulates your specialist creative practice in pattern cutting, print, or knit. Enhanced using traditional and digital skills, your portfolio will show how you challenge the conventions of contemporary fashion, communicate your design philosophy, creative identities, and your vision for the future of fashion, in alignment with your own personal values and professional ambitions. Your portfolio will be key to entering the next stage of your fashion career in industry, enterprise, or post-graduate education.
Course info
UCAS Code W233
Credits 20
Level of Study Undergraduate
Mode of Study 4 Years Full Time Including Placement
Department Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries, Northumbria School of Design
Location City Campus, Northumbria University
City Newcastle
Start September 2025
All information is accurate at the time of sharing.
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