Welcome to your course
Welcome to the world of Fashion Marketing and Promotion (FMP). Our course is an innovative course with strong industry links, it moves in tandem with a fast-paced fashion world, providing you with up-to-the-minute knowledge, excellent transferable skills and a high employability rate. The course develops your fashion knowledge, acumen and professional skills; enabling graduates to be perfectly positioned to embark on a career in the fashion industry; from a business start-up to joining or running an international creative fashion agency.
Fashion Marketing and Promotion focuses on the realities of the fashion industry and places emphasis on promoting creative thinking within the fashion and promotion context. You will have the opportunity to work with industry professionals and undertake live and industry set briefs. We prepare you to be industry-ready. The course produces highly employable graduates who possess essential and transferable skills relevant to fashion. Skills in fashion promotion, stylism, digital space, merchandising, enable you to develop industry-standard communication and networking skills through report writing, graphic presentation and professional pitches.
Welcome to Westminster School of Arts
We are delighted that you are joining our vibrant and exciting community where we aim to support you in achieving your creative and academic potential. We are committed to your development, and we have a team of permanent teaching staff, leading practitioners, technical support staff and industry partners who you will work with in a variety of ways through your journey at Westminster.
Based on our Harrow Campus, the School of Arts benefits from generous spaces for students to undertake their creative practice, join community events and a full suite of some of the most advanced technical and digital workshops.
During Welcome Week, we have planned a programme of activities for you, to help you navigate your way around the campuses, understand how to engage with your course team and space to get to know one another. Please do attend these events.
We look forward to meeting you in Welcome Week and seeing you and your creative work flourish at Westminster.
With every best wish
Virginia Grose
Head of Westminster School of Arts
Collecting your ID card and completing enrolment
As part of your induction and to complete your enrolment, you'll need to collect your student ID card.
Your time slot for collection is:
3pm, Monday 15 September 2025
Marylebone Campus
For more information about enrolment, including related FAQs, visit our Enrolment for new students page.
Course induction schedule
Your course induction events may take place online or on campus – check the details for each event below.
The timing and venue for events may change, so double check this page closer to the date.
Fashion department welcome: course and expectations, personal tutoring, group activities, WeThrive
10am–12pm
Room Auditorium
Harrow Campus
Induction week schedule and course information
12.30–1.30pm
Room A7.01
Harrow Campus
Course welcome lunch
1.30–2pm
Room A7.01
Harrow Campus
Collecting your ID card and completing enrolment
Exhibition visit
11am
V&A South Kensington
Full details to be provided on Monday 15 September.
Optional: Marylebone Welcome Fair
Timings TBC
Marylebone Campus
The fair will provide students with the opportunity to see what the student union and university has to offer them outside their studies.
Head of School welcome
3.45pm
Room Auditorium
Harrow Campus
Optional: Marylebone Welcome Fair
Timings TBC
Marylebone Campus
The fair will provide students with the opportunity to see what the student union and university has to offer them outside their studies.
Optional: College Social - Outdoor Film Screening
6.30–9.30pm
All students are invited to an outdoor cinema event at the Harrow Campus. The college will be providing one free drink and a choice of snack for the first 300 attendees, as well as a paid bar during the screening.
Reserve your free ticket for the Outdoor Film Screening
Online Q&A drop in
10–11am
Microsoft Teams
Meeting ID: 317 546 676 023 8
Passcode: WB9Qe7ZT
Optional: Harrow Welcome Fair
Timings TBC
Harrow Campus
The fair will provide students with the opportunity to see what the student union and university has to offer them outside their studies.
Optional: WestFest 2025
12–7pm
Harrow Campus (Car Park area)
Registration details to follow.
Exhibition visit
2pm
The Design Museum
Full details to be provided on Monday 15 September.
Course resources
Blackboard
Blackboard is our online learning platform, which you'll be able to log in to after you've set up your University email address and password.
Teaching timetables
Teaching starts in the week commencing Monday 22 September and you can check your teaching timetable to see when and where your classes are being held.
Course handbook
Full details on the course structure, modules and course team are included in the course handbook, which can be found on Blackboard.
Equipment and materials
All students should have access to a laptop that can be brought to classes when necessary (not just a tablet as the software we use on this course will not run on them properly).
While you can borrow laptops through the University for 24 hours, it's better to have your own. If you're not sure what to buy, our technical support team can advise you once you've enrolled.
You'll be eligible for a student discount on computer purchases.
Support and services
Welcome to Westminster
Visit our Welcome to Westminster page for everything you need to get started at Westminster.
Student Centre
If you need help with enrolment or have any questions, please use the live chat.
Academic English
If you'd like to hone your academic English skills, watch our Academic English for Disciplinary Study Module video for starters and consider joining one of our Academic English Modules. If you have any questions, get in touch with the Academic English team at [email protected].