

IMAGINE A BA HONOURS
IN FASHION
FEDISA’s Bachelor of Arts Honours: Fashion degree will facilitate academic discourse around theories and concepts relating to political, economic, societal and psychosocial, technological, legal and environmental issues pertaining to contemporary and future fashion shifts.
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BUSINESS
STUDIES
BUSINESS
STUDIES

RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
Focus on research questions, planning a research proposal, qualitative research processes, quantitative research processes, designing surveys and questionnaires and the language of research (writing and presenting seminar papers and dissertations).

COURSE
WORK
Contemplates the impact of global social, cultural and psychosocial dynamics on fashion management. It also interrogates theories, philosophies and discourse on the fashion industry.

WORK INTEGRATED
LEARNING
Will require students to identify, initiate and engage with a chosen area of interest that will contribute to the final mini-dissertation. Students will conduct action research in an actual industry setting, and will document their findings.

MINI
DISSERTATION
Requires students to write a comprehensive mini-dissertation sparked by content explored during semester one course work. Students will also be expected to incorporate action research conducted in a fashion industry setting.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of the Bachelor of Arts Honours: Fashion programme is to produce fashion professionals; empowered with the capacity to successfully manage various fashion related processes with a thorough understanding of the requisites involved, through a well-developed research and analytic ability.
The programme is designed for the accomplished creative business-orientated person, who has a flair for fashion, style and a love of all aspects influencing fashion and its related fields, such as prevailing trends, cultural influences, production technology, eco-awareness and sound business practice.
Emphasis is placed on the research and analytical development of the candidate, as well as the business acumen to successfully integrate new concepts into the established commercial sectors of the fashion and design economies.
The programme objectives may be considered from the dual perspectives of advanced entry into the fashion industry and preparation for higher-level research studies at Masters and Doctoral levels.
DURATION
CREDITS
NQF LEVEL
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GROUP TOURS
Demonstrate knowledge of and engagement in an area at the forefront of a field, discipline or practice; an understanding of the theories, research methodologies, methods and techniques relevant to the field, discipline or practice; and an understanding of how to apply such knowledge in a particular context.
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THE STRUCTURE
The programme structure of the BA Honours: Fashion degree at FEDISA consists of 7 integrated research modules, which includes Work Integrated Learning and a supervised mini-dissertation. All classes are presented in the afternoon, allowing for extending personal research and knowledge development opportunities during the morning.
NOTE: The BA Honours: Fashion degree is a pure research qualification and no fashion design or construction skills are required.
120
1YRS

STUDY YOUR FASHION
HONOURS ALL ONLINE
The FEDISA Fashion School is excited to announce that the post-graduate BA Honours: Fashion degree is now also available as a fully online option. Honours students will therefore have the choice of pursuing their post-graduate studies with FEDISA either on campus in Cape Town or Sandton or Online, through remote learning, as of February 2021.
As a pure research Degree, this post-graduate fashion Degree does not require your undergraduate bachelors Degree to be specifically in fashion.
Request your BA Honours: Fashion degree application pack by filling out the below form.

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Do you dream of a high-powered career in the exciting international world of fashion? Want to be a fashion
buyer, designer, stylist, editor or more?



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