Fashion Styling and Creative Direction with Art & Design Foundation Year

Got a passion for creative design? Not quite ready to undertake a full honours degree? Solent University’s Design Foundation Programme is perfectly suited to students who may not be from an art- design- or fashion-related background or whose qualifications do not meet the admissions requirements of their chosen course.

To help get you up to speed, this one-year foundation course provides all the creative, technical and study skills needed for entry onto a degree-level art, design or fashion course. Upon completion, you will be able to progress onto a range of art-, design- and fashion- related courses here at Solent.

The course begins with a five-week group project. This enables students to mix with like-minded peers and helps them to settle in quickly. This project also helps students to decide which area they might like to follow at a later stage.

The following ten weeks are spent introducing students to the world of art, design and fashion. This includes design history, vocabulary, methods and academic foundation. This ten-week block will also give students the opportunity to learn and apply two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualisation techniques, giving them the tools required to conduct their final project.

This final project takes place in the last fifteen weeks of the course and is based around the specific discipline that the student will go on to study. The project will be supported by tuition in visual presentation techniques, enabling students to communicate their concepts, development processes and final proposals. Students will also receive instruction in verbal communication and presentation techniques, increasing their confidence in pitching design ideas.

FOUNDATION MODULES:
Industry Skills
Industry Awareness
Materials and Methods
Research and Ideas Development
Personal Development Planning
Degree-related Project

If you successfully pass the foundation year, you will automatically progress to the 3 year BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Creative Direction degree (please note that these modules may change)

YEAR 1 - CORE MODULES
Crafting the Image
Style Cultures
The Style File
Capturing Beauty
Editorial Fashion
Reading Pictures

YEAR 2 - CORE MODULES
Brand futures
Trend Forecasting
Dissertation Research
Digital Campaign Concepts
Professional and Personal Development

YEAR 2 - OPTIONS (please note that not all options are guaranteed to run each academic year)
Creating the Narrative
Conceptual Beauty

YEAR 3 - CORE MODULES
Major Project Proposal
Work Based Learning
Fashion Film
Major Project and Evaluation
Dissertation

You will learn by:

Directed Learning
Collaborative Learning
Guided Learning

You will be assessed by:

Assignments
Final major project

Solent’s curriculum framework builds on our unique, creative and applied approach to teaching. The transformation of students’ lives is at the heart of our mission as a university, and our curriculum – informed by the latest theory – reflects this shared educational vision.