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Study Details: MA 1 year full-time
MA Fashion Cultures and Histories takes an interdisciplinary approach to the theoretical analysis of fashion as a key marker of social and cultural change, and a means of understanding the relationship between individuals and communities. Students on the course develop high level writing, research and analytical skills, preparing them to become informed critics and communicators, generating new knowledge about fashion in its multiple contexts and shaping the ways it is understood.
An unique Master’s degree situated in a dedicated London fashion college, provides students with grounding in relevant, innovative and critical fashion histories and theories. The course is committed to embedding UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice. Taught principally by London College of Fashion’s Cultural and Historical Studies Department, students join a unique community of researchers at the forefront of fashion studies, using their knowledge to enact meaningful and transformative change.
This course responds to shifting dynamics within the fashion industry, and the increasing need for critical thinkers and cultural leaders, who can activate fashion knowledge within the workplace. Through this course, you will learn vital leadership and research skills that will enable you to reflect and articulate fashion knowledge across cultural difference, within professional and academic contexts. You will actively generate new thinking about fashion and help to shape the ways in which it is understood, presented and evaluated.
In providing the tools for constructing compelling narratives about fashion for specialist and general audiences, the course prepares you for future-facing careers in research, publishing, education, museums, think tanks, institutes, within the fashion and culture industries, or to undertake further study in a fashion-related subject.
APEL (Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning)
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
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All our postgraduate courses offer career development, so that you become a creative thinker, making effective contributions to your relevant sector of the fashion industry.
LCF offers students the opportunity to develop Personal and Professional Development (PPD) skills while studying through:
* Access to to speaker programmes and events featuring alumni and industry.
* Access to careers activities, such as CV clinics and one-to-one advice sessions.
* Access to a graduate careers service
* Access to a live jobsboard for all years.
* Advice on setting up your own brand or company.
Career paths
Masters graduates have an acknowledged advantage in the employment market, obtaining work in a wide range of vocational and academic fields related to fashion. Previous graduates have gone on to lecture in related fields in Europe and America, worked in fashion curation and archives, journalism, styling, retail consultancy, as well as to higher level research degrees (MPhil or PhD). Our graduates are working within the industry at institutions including Museum of London, the V&A, BBC, Parsons, Kerry Taylor Auctions and Garde Robe, as well as for commercial brands such as Net-a-Porter and Burberry.
Theoretical Approaches (20 credits); Fashion Histories (20 credits); and Research in Practice (20 credits) are taught in Block 1. Research Proposal (20 credits); Fashion Narratives (20 credits); and Elective Unit (20 credits); are taught in Block 2. Masters Project is taught in Block 3.
These units involve the types of learning and assessment outlined earlier in this document. Each student will have one essay tutorial during the four core course units (Theoretical Approaches; Fashion Histories; Fashion Narratives; Research in Practice), and the opportunity to work closely with tutors in cross-college.
Elective Units. Students will also have a pastoral tutorial in each Block to discuss their progress, goals and student experience.
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