How will I learn during my degree?
Learning and teaching will enable you to acquire a flexible and imaginative approach to real-life problem solving. You’ll be active in your learning, carrying out research and displaying creative thinking as you advance your visual literacy skills and present your work and ideas to different audiences.
You will be introduced to fashion communication methodologies and practices, exploring branding and design influences while developing your academic, intellectual and practical skills.Cultural, critical and media studies will help you put fashion communication in a social, and theoretical context and allow you to develop your personal practice within a moral, ethical and commercial setting.
Through the creative and professional practice modules at each level, you’ll develop your own practice and get the chance to engage in
competition briefs. You’ll build a professional portfolio of your own work and
a CV to help you prepare for interviews and explore career options.
The Design School showcases student work through online and live exhibitions. Students regularly take part in Graduate Fashion Week in London, the world’s largest showcase of undergraduate fashion talent, with opportunities to talk to industry professionals and headhunters.
You have the option of a one-year placement within the fashion industry or studying abroad at a partner institution for a semester. Students have had placements at Vogue, Wonderland, Barbour, Frame, French Connection, and House of Holland, among many others. Students can also volunteer to work behind the scenes on Northumbria fashion shows at venues across the UK.
We regularly run field trips nationally and internationally, with students visiting New York, Florence and Milan, Amsterdam and Berlin, as well as to selected museums and exhibitions to feed into modules and projects.
Film showcasing Fashion Communication graduates created by Megan Jepson - Fashion Communication Graduate and Lecturer, winner of 'Portrait of Britain 2020'.