Overview
As the fashion industry’s future leaders and decision-makers, students in the fashion industry today have the potential to steer the industry to a fur-free and sustainable future.
Key facts:
On Compassion in Fashion - Sustainability and the Global Fur Trade at FutureLearn, you’ll examine fashion sustainability through the lens of the fur industry.
As you learn about how the fur production process impacts animals, humans, and the environment, you’ll have the chance to reflect on what you want your future in fashion to look like.
You’ll start the course by developing your knowledge of how the fashion industry impacts air, water, land, and waste pollution.
Using fur farming as a focus topic, you’ll develop your understanding of the fur production process, learning how the fur trade impacts everyone from the farmers themselves to animal welfare.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Fur-free fashion
- Sustainability in the fashion industry
- Environmental impact of the fur industry and fashion
- Human welfare and the impact of the fashion industry
- Animal welfare and the impact of the fur industry
- Critical thinking, values building, business and communications
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
- 3 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Philosophy Sustainable Development Fashion, Textiles and Luxury Goods View 67 other Short Courses in Fashion, Textiles and Luxury Goods in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This course is designed for anyone who cares about sustainable fashion and fur-free fashion.
- It will be particularly applicable to the study of higher education fashion students studying in either the design, communications or business fields.