BA (Hons) Creative Industries Management Fashion (top-up)

Elective 1: 15 credits

Fashion: Contemporary Issues
To effectively inspire a team, gain clients’ confidence and connect authentically with
audiences, effective leaders in creative fashion businesses need deep
understandings of contemporary issues and opportunities. In this unit you will gain
understandings of cutting-edge influences affecting consumers’ lifestyles, free time,
self-image, and choices to enable you to advise clients credibly.

OR

Lifestyle Goods: Contemporary Issues
To effectively inspire a team, gain clients’ confidence and connect authentically with
audiences, effective leaders in creative lifestyle businesses need deep
understandings of contemporary issues and opportunities. In this unit you will gain
understandings of cutting-edge influences affecting consumers’ lifestyles, free time,
self-image, and choices to enable you to advise clients credibly.

Elective 2: 15 credits

Fashion: Global Industry & Futures
This unit explores the concept of future thinking and its influence on the global
fashion industry. You will be analysing influence from culture and society and
predicting through recognition of global shifts and emerging trend manifestations.

OR

Lifestyle Goods: Global Industry & Futures
This unit explores the concept of future thinking and its influence on the global
lifestyle goods industry. You will be analysing influence from culture and society, and
predicting through recognition of global shifts and emerging trend manifestations.

Elective 3: 15 credits

Data Mining for Marketeers
Data Mining focuses on the use of automation to uncover relationships within
datasets that can be used to support improved decision processes.

OR

Predictive Analytics for Business
This unit introduces predictive modelling and explains its application in business
decisions. It focusses on a set of statistical techniques including regression
modelling, cluster analysis and survival analysis.

Business Seminar 4: Strategy & Decision Making: 15 credits
Strategic Decision Making for Management will enable you to transform decision
making into a smart and insightful process, providing a robust framework of effective
and replicable solutions for better decisions and awareness of decision traps, as well
as learning how to assess and choose high-value strategic options under the current
climate of enormous uncertainty.

Degree Project; 60 credits
In this final unit, you will apply all the learning throughout stage 6 to create a
distinctive piece of work for your degree project. The purpose of your degree project
is to allow you to identify opportunities successfully in your specialist subject area to
promote and to develop your career.

Through research, you will independently identify and/or generate innovative
opportunities within your specialist subject area. Your portfolio will consist of a series
of outcomes that showcase your knowledge, and your key attributes and skills as a
reflective creative practitioner.

Year one (equivalent in level to year 3)

• Independent study: 77.4%
• Scheduled teaching: 22.6% 
• Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 0%

Please note, these details are for 2026 entry and could be subject to change for other years of entry.

Graduates of this top-up course can expect to leave with an extensive knowledge of the fashion industry that can see them go on to work in the fashion industry under many different roles. These include:

• Project manager
• Fashion marketing
• Brand manager
• Textiles manager
• Buying and merchandising
• Customer insights manager

Your training on this course will prepare you for a wide range of postgraduate courses. We offer postgraduate opportunities in our Business School and we will help you find the correct course for you and support you in your application should further study be for you.

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BA (Hons) course (top-up)

The standard entry requirements* for this course are:

• 240 credits from a relevant degree (120 credits at level 4 and 120 credits at level 5), with a minimum of 55% overall
• Foundation Degree in a relevant subject
• Higher National Diploma in a relevant subject

And/or Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)

In recognition that you may already have a relevant professional qualification, or appropriate working experience in the relevant industries, APEL may be accepted for entry on to the course. This will be based on the partnership articulations and will be assessed on a case by case basis.

Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 UK and international qualifications are considered on an individual basis, and we encourage students from diverse educational backgrounds to apply.

Portfolio requirements

These courses don't require a portfolio but, if you're UK-based and you receive an offer, we'd still like to meet you at an Applicant Day. Further information will be provided once you have applied.

*We occasionally make offers which are lower than the standard entry criteria, to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve higher results. We consider the strength of our applicants’ portfolios, as well as their grades -  in these cases, a strong portfolio is especially important.

BA (Hons) course (top-up)

The entry requirements for these courses will depend on the country your qualifications are from, please check the equivalent qualifications for your country:

• Non-UK equivalent qualifications

Any additional entry requirements listed in the UK requirements section, e.g., subject requirements, work experience or professional qualifications, also apply to international applicants applying with equivalent qualifications.

Portfolio requirements

This courses does not require a portfolio.

English language requirements

To study at UCA, you'll need to have a certain level of English language skill. And so, to make sure you meet the requirements of your course, we ask for evidence of your English language ability, please check the level of English language required:

• English language requirements