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MA Fashion Cultures and Histories is a theory-based Master’s degree that provides students with a cross-disciplinary foundation in relevant, innovative and critical fashion histories and theories. It provides unique opportunities for students to develop high-level writing, research, and analytical skills in interrogating fashion as global industry, media, dress, and bodily practice. 

In responding to the developments in the media landscape and the need for socially, culturally and politically engaged professionals with theoretical and critical knowledge, the course aims to prepare researchers and critical innovators who can 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 in multiple formats, the course prepares students for future-facing careers in research, publishing, education, museums, think tanks, institutes, within the fashion industry or to undertake further study in a fashion-related subject.

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows: 

• An Honours degree at 2.1 or above in a related discipline. Applicants with a degree in another subject may be considered, depending on the strength of the application; 

• OR Equivalent qualifications; 

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: 

• Related academic or work experience (minimum of three years) 

• The quality of the personal statement 

• A strong academic or other professional reference 

• OR a combination of these factors 

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case. 

English Language Requirements 

IELTS level 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in reading, writing, listening and speaking. 

Students on this course will produce:

• Written, researched essays 
• Written reviews
• Group presentation (oral and slide deck)
• Critical, researched outcome (format subject to student choice in negotiation with unit leader)
• Written, researched dissertation

Course dates

Autumn term:

Monday 7 September - Friday 27 November 2020

Spring term:

Monday 4 January - Friday 12 March 2021

Summer term:

Tuesday 12 April - Friday 17 September 2021