MA in Sustainable Fashion: Business and Practices
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
GBP 10,900 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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** home full-time: £10,900 | international full-time: £18,700
Introduction
Why choose this course?
Sustainable Fashion sets out to challenge current thinking in fashion by embedding holistic sustainable design and business solutions throughout. The coursework requires critical thinking and problem-solving and is designed to create systemic change to help combat fashion's unsustainable footprint.
Projects develop and deepen your understanding of sustainability as it relates to the fashion, textile and related industries. The course gives participants the opportunity to develop solutions and plot a new future for themselves and the fashion industry by developing new systems that challenge existing practices.
Students will choose their individual areas of focus, ensuring their outputs have real-world applications contributing to society, culture and ecology.
We are a member of the United Nations Education and Academia Stakeholder Group (EASG).
Reasons to choose Kingston University
- Kingston University is consistently rated among the best institutions in the UK for fashion and related disciplines.
- Kingston School of Art includes world leaders on the topic of sustainable fashion, who bring a depth and breadth of understanding to the topic.
- The programme's approach to pedagogy challenges the current system of fashion, plotting an alternative and more sustainable future for fashion businesses and related activities, based on critical thinking and creative problem-solving.
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Curriculum
What you will study
Students will study the human and environmental impacts of the mainstream fashion system throughout the entirety of the value chain. The programme will offer sustainable methodologies for the development of fashion businesses, services and practices. It will provide students with the knowledge and skills required to effect positive change through creative problem-solving and equip them with the management, business and creative decision-making skills to develop their own career path.
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.
Modules
Core modules for Teaching Block 1
- The System of Fashion 1: Fashions impact
- Sustainable and Ethical Practices
Core modules for Teaching Block 2
- Design for Social Impact
- The System of Fashion 2: Design, Business and Operational Responses
Core modules for Teaching Block 3
- Capstone Project
Please note
Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.
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Career Opportunities
After you graduate
The Sustainable Fashion Business and Practices curriculum helps to prepare students for a multitude of sustainably-focused undertakings and employment opportunities. These range from brand development, products, systems, models, and services, communication vehicles, not limited to medium, and expressed both physically as well as digitally, through websites, blogs, apps, magazines, e-zines, exhibitions, installations and more. This course will address the gap between intent and the in-depth knowledge required for diverse applications.
The curriculum prepares students for a rapidly-shifting industry, where the old models of career development no longer apply, impacted as they have been by the fourth industrial revolution, climate change, the global pandemic and a myriad of social and cultural movements that have shifted our collective value systems. Students may choose to set up their own international businesses or freelance across the creative and production industries.
Students are trained to develop their own work profiles as independent practitioners and advisors, and to integrate into the brand and corporate world across markets, with sustainability as an increasing focus for all entities, allowing students the flexibility to enter into non-fashion-specific roles.
We encourage research practice during the MA programme, with the potential to develop a postgraduate practice at MPhil and PhD levels.
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Program Admission Requirements
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