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Course overview
Position yourself as a catalyst for environmental, social, and economic change at the vanguard of the fashion industry’s sustainable transition on Falmouth’s Sustainable Fashion MA. This forward-thinking transdisciplinary master’s course empowers you to disrupt outdated systems and pioneer radical new approaches to address fashion’s impacts by centring projects around planetary wellbeing at local and global scales.
As an emerging changemaker, you’ll develop groundbreaking design approaches. Situating your projects within community settings, you will question industry norms and reframe fashion systems through regenerative and life-centred design principles. The curriculum integrates cutting-edge concepts – Fibresheds, circular systems, degrowth economics, indigenous wisdom, the commons, biodesign, and frontier technologies.
By joining our dynamic collective of visionary practitioners, you will engage with a global hub of emerging makers and thinkers committed to reimagining fashion’s future. Engaging with this peer network through discussion will propel your unique perspective and creative projects to spearhead the industry’s essential transition toward authentic sustainable fashion systems
Job outcomes
- Sustainability Officer
- Product Sustainability Manager
- Sustainability Consultant
- Environmental Specialist
- Technical Designer
- Corporate Communications Manager
- Fashion Forecaster
- Creative Director
What you'll learn
Honing your investigative and academic research skills will enable you to ask the right questions, interrogate current industry practice and then forecast your own vision of a future sustainable fashion world. You’ll also sharpen your cultural awareness and sensitivity to global issues and events, thereby developing inclusive working practices and approaches.
At the end of the sustainable fashion course, you will establish yourself as an entrepreneurial industry leader, through the creation of sustainable and collaborative solutions for a self-identified problem - either within the fashion system as a whole, or within a specific area that you are passionate about.
Modules
The modules have been specifically designed to be studied in a non-linear order, with the order in which you’ll study the modules depending on when you begin the course.
MA
You will need to complete four 30-credit modules and one 60-credit Major Project (180 credits in total). All modules on the course are compulsory and must be passed to complete the award.
PGDip
You will need to complete four 30-credit modules (120 credits in total), and will not complete a Major Project.
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
- Virtual
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Duration study load
2 Years
Based on the total learning time for the Postgraduate online courses, an average study week can be up to 25 hours. As our online courses are intended to be flexible, the time required to study will vary based on the level of study, the module week, and individual learning pace.
Delivery
You’ll learn through a blend of contextual investigation, case studies, workshops, learning activities, guest talks, tasks and discussion forums, which you’ll access via our dedicated virtual learning environment. This is also where you’ll find all key documentation, get course announcements and access rich learning resources.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification is desirable. However, candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply. If you'd like to discuss our entry requirements, speak to an advisor.
Portfolio requirements
You’ll need to upload 2-3 examples of how you have embedded a sustainable or ethical idea within a project. It should include a 200-300 word description of how sustainable value or process has influenced each project as well as development work or images. You’ll also need to include the final output of each project.
Course features
Why study this course at Falmouth?
Lead Radical Innovation: Master regenerative design practices and circular systems thinking by understanding the complete lifecycle of fashion – from agricultural origins to end use – positioning you at the forefront of the industry's sustainable transformation.
Drive Systemic Change: Develop the critical capabilities to identify leverage points within complex fashion systems, enabling you to design considered responses that catalyze meaningful transformation at both local and global scales.
Become an Industry Changemaker: Cultivate the strategic vision, practical tools, and collaborative approaches needed to disrupt outdated models and lead the fashion industry toward regenerative futures centered on ecological and social wellbeing.
Create Impact-Driven Solutions: Establish yourself as an entrepreneurial industry leader by creating sustainable projects for self-identified problems, developing the skills to measure and communicate their real-world impact on both human and more-than-human systems.
Join a Global Community: Connect with a global network of bold innovators and industry pioneers who will challenge, inspire, and collaborate with you to advance grand ideas and practices that redefine fashion's relationship with people and planet.
Resources and support
Dedicated easy-to-use virtual learning environment (VLE)
Accessible online audio / visual content
A Student Advisor to support you throughout your studies and access to our Student Support Services
Access to our Employability Service
24/7 access to Falmouth's extensive online library of contextual books, journals and resources
Access to online software tutorials at LinkedIn Learning
Students' Union community
Optional in-person events
Invitation to attend alumni events
Assessment
Assessment on sustainable fashion this course has been carefully planned to work specifically for online delivery. Assessment provides the course team with a means of offering tailored guidance alongside advice on how to progress knowledge and skills in key areas that relate to the course Learning Outcomes. The course team will identify your strengths and weaknesses as an individual and discuss them with you throughout your time on the course.
As you move through the modules, you will keep an assessed critical reflective journal, for weekly reflections on learning, helping you to embed critical self-evaluation into your ideas and personal development.
You will be assessed via coursework at the end of each module in the form of visual, verbal and written assignments. You will also receive regular feedback via webinars, Q&As and workshops with other students on your course.
About Falmouth University
Level up your career with a transformational online degree from Falmouth University.
With over a century of art school history behind us, creativity is the foundation of everything we do. But we’re always pushing forward, fusing creativity with technology to forge new disciplines and invent the industries of tomorrow.
All online courses are studied 100% remotely, enabling you to achieve your creative ambitions at a time and place that suits you.
Studying online at Falmouth University means you can:
Join our global community of creatives defining the future.
Study with a platform developed by award-winning learning designers - and with the same expert standard of teaching as our on-campus degrees.
Get taught by successful industry professionals and inspiring guest lecturers.
You can work while studying online
The design of our online degrees at Falmouth means you can access your course content anytime, anywhere. You can also study part-time, making it possible for you to study while working. All recorded learning content can be replayed at any time, so it can fit around work or lifestyle commitments.
Get supportive, rigorous degree-level teaching online
Studying online is the ideal option for those looking for flexibility while elevating their creative career prospects. Our online degrees have all been designed from the outset to be taught and learned online. This means that they're crafted specifically for you to study remotely.
Through a combination of recorded learning content, learning activities, tutorials, and collaborative work, you'll be encouraged to push your limits, explore your creativity, and develop professional skills and expertise that make you ready for industry.
Creative collaboration
Here at Falmouth, we encourage open innovation throughout your online studies. This might mean participating in stimulating discussions with your fellow students or working together on projects to develop your teamwork skills.
It'll give you the chance to push each other's creative boundaries and connect with your global learning community.
In-person events
We offer optional in-person events for our online students that usually happen twice a year. They're great opportunities to meet your peers and tutors and to explore course-related topics through additional activities and discussions.
You'll hear from industry experts, offering professional contexts for your learning and a deeper insight into your chosen industry.
