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Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fashion Design

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fashion Design

Programme Structure

This is a credit-based programme, which students will normally complete over 4 years (in 8 semesters). Students are required to take 129 credit points with modules as shown below and an Industrial Attachment module for work-integrated learning. To encourage lifelong learning in general, and to provide students with greater flexibility, the programme will be offered through a credit-based module accumulation system with a multi-entry and multi-exit structure.

 

Year 1

Year 2

Fashion Design Stream

Fashion Management Stream

  • Fashion Culture & History
  • Fashion as Visual Communication
  • Materials for Fashion Design
  • The Fashion Business
  • Pattern Creation, Forms & Materials
  • Fashion Trend Forecasting
  • Programme Elective 1*
  • Programme Elective 2*
  • GE Core Module: English for Academic Studies 1
  • GE Core Module: Chinese 1
  • GE Core Module: Creativity & Innovation in Society

 

  • Fashion Skills & Processes
  • Surface Textile Design
  • Option 1: Introduction
  • Industry Practice
  • Conceptualising Fashion
  • Option 2: Development
  • Option 3: Investigation
  • GE Core Module: Technology, Society & Work
  • GE Core Module: Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • GE Elective Module 1
  • Fashion Skills & Processes
  • Principle of Fashion Marketing and Communication
  • Quality Evaluation and Management
  • Industry Practice
  • International Fashion Retailing
  • Fashion Retail Operations and Buying Management
  • Fashion Visual Merchandising
  • GE Core Module: Technology, Society & Work
    GE Core Module: Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • GE Elective Module 1

Remark : Students are required to take the Work-integrated Learning module upon completion of the Year-1 curriculum.
 

Year 3

Fashion Design Stream

Fashion Management Stream

  • Programme Elective 3*
  • Programme Elective 4*
  • GE Elective Module 2
  • Research Methods
  • Consumers & Brands
  • GE Core Module: English for Academic Studies 2
  • GE Core Module: English for Professional Purposes
  • GE Core Module: Chinese 2
  • Option 4: Production & Portfolio
  • Option 5: Refinement

 

  • GE Core Module: Chinese 2
  • Programme Elective 3*
  • Programme Elective 4*
  • GE Elective Module 2
  • Research Methods
  • Consumers & Brands
  • GE Core Module: English for Academic Studies 2
  • GE Core Module: English for Professional Purposes
  • Option 1 (Fashion Retailing): China Retail Marketing Strategy or Option 1 (Fashion Communication): Fashion Journalism
  • Option 2 (Fashion Retailing): Sales and Persuasive Methodology or Option 2 (Fashion Communication): Social Media Marketing Communication

 

 

Year 4
Fashion Design Stream Fashion Management Stream
  • GE Elective Module 3
  • Dissertation 1
  • Fashion Form Practice
  • Collection Integration
  • Concept Research
  • GE Elective Module 4
  • Dissertation 2
  • Major Design Project

 

  • GE Elective Module 3
  • Dissertation 1
  • Fashion Event Planning
  • Fashion Finance
  • Fashion E-Commerce
  • Global Fashion Supply Chain Management
  • GE Elective Module 4
  • Dissertation 2
  • Luxury Theory and Practices
  • Design Management and Business Plan

 

 

*Programme Electives
Fashion Design Stream Fashion Management Stream
  • Business Law
  • Fashion Drawing
  • Fashion CAD
  • Fashion Photography
  • Fashion Visual Merchandising
  • Fashion Event Planning
  • Fashion Developments
  • Professionalising Studies
  • Fashion Management Workshop
  • Business Law
  • Fashion Drawing
  • Fashion CAD
  • Fashion Photography
  • Collection Integration
  • Fashion Developments
  • Professionalising Studies
  • Fashion Management Workshop

 

BA(Hons) in Fashion Design