Module overview
Developing upon knowledge and outcomes acquired in Semester 1 this module turns ‘the student into the professional’ as you elevate your design practice through implementing a more focused, evaluative, resolved and innovative approach and performing more complex and visionary skills with confidence. Through the creation of your ‘collection’ or ‘specialist fashion outcome’ you consider the needs of your wider audience with a focus on a real-world context to demonstrate your creative ability to be a solutions-based designer.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Be resourceful, ethical and entrepreneurial to innovate and realise independent concepts and proposals to final conclusion
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The implications and the potential of key social, sustainable, and technological developments in your discipline to inform an influential final project
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Demonstrate innovative exploration and experimentation with fashion materials and technologies
- Demonstrate ability to resolve conceptual challenges through the process of developing garments, products, collections, and portfolios for professional purposes.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Communicate your ideas, research and proposals in a professional manner appropriate to the method, chosen topic or assessment
Syllabus
This module represents the culmination of your years of study. It enables you to develop your work from research and experimentation to the production of consolidated outcomes. You will direct and realise your ideas through the concepts and practical requirements of your professionally planned project.
You will be guided throughout this module in the application of your knowledge and understanding of fashion design. In helping you produce work for exposure to an audience, this module focuses on realising a fashion collection or specialist fashion project that is critically informed with regard to the ideas that you wish to communicate and for whom they are directed towards.
Although the work undertaken in this module may resemble work produced in previous years, the quality, level of finish and contextual awareness and purpose will be markedly higher.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching and learning methods include:
• Brief writing
•Lectures and visual presentations
•Seminars and tutorial discussions
•Research support
•Design development support
•Garment pattern cutting support
•Garment construction support
•Digital technologies and processes
•One-to one tutorials
•Small group discussion and learning
•Formative self-evaluation
•Guided independent research
•Peer group learning
•Presentation
•Critical reviews
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent ÃÛÌÒTV | 252 |
| Teaching | 48 |
| Total study time | 300 |
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Critical review
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Feedback on project brief. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |