Graduate Diploma Fashion Management

The course provides an approach to learning that encourages autonomous and creative work to build confidence in becoming a reflective and independent learner.

We aim to make you a strategic thinker and decision maker together with developing your creative attributes through your Professional Portfolio.

What to expect

• A one-year conversion course for students who have a 2:2 or higher first degree; we welcome students who may have a previous degree outside the area of fashion management.
• The course emphasises the importance of sustainability and ethics within the fashion industry when responding to consumer behaviour and demand.
• Business and management theories are explored and combined with practical applications.
• The course is taught by a range of specialist academics with knowledge and experience relevant to the disciplines of the course.
• Throughout the course your personal and professional development is informed through the UAL Creative Attributes Framework (CAF), this culminates in the creation your Professional Portfolio produced as part of your Final Major Project. This framework emphasises the transformative education that we are committed to provide, to develop your creative employability and enterprise attributes, supporting your ambitions in the competitive fashion environment.
• The course is divided into two blocks of 15 weeks. The first block of the course will take you through an understanding of the fashion consumer and their relationship to fashion business, together with the internal and external facing operations of these businesses.
• The course culminates in the second block with your Final Major Project, which requires you to produce a body of work through independent study that demonstrates research through advanced critical and analytical skills together with an innovative approach to problem solving in your specific field of ambition and practice.
• It will be expected that the students make industry and academic connections using the resources available at LCF and UAL throughout the course
• This final project enables students to prepare for the next stage of their career, whether that be an MA in a related field a personal entrepreneurial project or moving into industry.

Work experience and opportunities

It will be expected that the students make industry and academic connections using the resources available at LCF and UAL for their Final Major Project. This final project enables students to prepare for the next stage of their career, whether that be an MA in a related field or a personal entrepreneurial project.

Mode of study

Undergraduate (Level 6) full time.

This course will follow a low-residency mode of delivery which includes an immersive face-to-face delivery mode for the duration of the Autumn term followed by fully online delivery.

The academic year for this course is divided into Block 1 and Block 2. For term and holiday dates please see the University timetable available here: https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/term-dates

You will be expected to be in attendance in the UK during the scheduled face-to-face delivery of the course.