MSc International Fashion Marketing / Course details

Year of entry: 2024

Course unit details:
Fashion Marketing Communications

Course unit fact file
Unit code MATS61472
Credit rating 20
Unit level FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree
Teaching period(s) Semester 2
Offered by Department of Materials
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

This unit will introduce you to the key role effective fashion marketing communication plays in developing a fashion organisation’s strategic vision, creating brand awareness and engagement and delivering competitive advantage. 

Aims

This unit explores the various forms of fashion promotion and the opportunities, challenges and complexities of integrated marketing communications in the contemporary fashion business environment.

Learning outcomes

A greater depth of the learning outcomes will be covered in the following sections:

  • Knowledge and understanding
  • Intellectual skills
  • Practical skills
  • Transferable skills and personal qualities

Teaching and learning methods

This unit makes use of a variety of learning and teaching processes including: lectures, problem based learning, practical sessions; case studies, and discussions. Blackboard will be used to present lecture notes and supporting materials for the unit. The lectures with develop the theoretical subject knowledge, whilst the case studies and discussions will evaluate the importance and application of techniques, with practical sessions visualising these findings. Blackboard may also be utilised for assessment using Turnitin.

Knowledge and understanding

  • Evaluate in-depth and advanced resources pertaining to the theoretical and practical understanding of their subject, discipline, or profession in an international context
  • Demonstrate professional and academic responsibility, integrity and ethical considerations in an international context               

Intellectual skills

  • Demonstrate high level cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis relating to fashion marketing communications concepts and issues.
  • Synthesise ideas and knowledge pertaining to fashion marketing communications and evaluate a range of options to create solutions

Practical skills

  • Find, evaluate, synthesise, and use information about fashion marketing communications from a variety of academic and industry sources.
  • Express complex ideas and argument coherently in appropriate formats

Transferable skills and personal qualities

Communicate complex ideas and arguments, in oral and written forms

 

Perform effectively in a team environment, exercising leadership, teambuilding, negotiation and project management skills

Assessment methods

Method Weight
Written exam 70%
Project output (not diss/n) 30%

Feedback methods

Written and verbal.

Recommended reading

  • Chaffey & Ellis-Chadwick (2019) Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, Pearson

 

  • Clow & Baack (2017) Integrated Advertising, Promotion and Marketing Communications, Pearson

 

  • Fill & Turnbull (2016) Marketing Communications, Pearson

 

  • Lea-Greenwood (2012) Fashion Marketing Communications, Blackwell

 

  • McIntyre et al. (2016) Multichannel-Marketing, Branding and Retail Design: New Challenges and Opportunities, Emerald

 

 

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Yao Yao Unit coordinator

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