Course Title: Critical Fashion Design Practice

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Critical Fashion Design Practice

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

GRAP2854

City Campus

Undergraduate

350H Fashion & Textiles

Face-to-Face

Sem 2 2020

Course Coordinator: Dr. Ricarda Bigolin and Dr. Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 3856 / 9925 3536

Course Coordinator Email: ricarda.bigolin@rmit.edu.au / daphne.mohajer.va.pesaran@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: B008 F12 R006

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.


Course Description

In this course you will advance your propositions for materials, forms, expressions and experiences of fashion. 

You will learn about research contexts and gain skills relevant to professional research practice that will inform speculative or critical propositions for new scenarios of producing/ dressing/ wearing or experiencing fashion.

You will learn about research contexts and gain skills relevant to professional research practice that will inform speculative or critical propositions for new scenarios of producing/ dressing/ wearing or experiencing fashion. In your final assessment you will demonstrate and disseminate your project framework and outcomes in an open international and collaborative forum.

Please note that if you take this course for a bachelor honours program, your overall mark in this course will be one of the course marks that will be used to calculate the weighted average mark (WAM) that will determine your award level. See the WAM information web page for more information.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

As this is a program option course, only Course Learning Outcomes are applicable.


Course Learning Outcomes 

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

CLO1: Take initiative and apply critical thinking and judgement to creative problem solving and decision making.

CLO2: Demonstrate cultural, environmental and social awareness through ethical and reflective practice.

CLO3: Apply a range of skills to a project that explores the wider contexts surrounding your work.

CLO4: Synthesize learning and disseminate proposals and prototypes in a diverse set of outcomes.


Overview of Learning Activities

Your learning will be facilitated via a range of in-class and online activities that will require both individual and collaborative engagement. Class activities promote your ability to explore design, investigate, analyse and understand fashion practice.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.

A list of recommended learning resources will be provided by your lecturer, including books, journal articles and web resources. You will also be expected to seek further resources relevant to the focus of your own learning.

RMIT Library provides extensive resources for fashion and textiles students. 

Search the library and consult the Fashion and Textiles Subject Guides for more information. 

The library also provides guides on academic referencing and assistance is available via phone, chat and email.


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. 

Assessment tasks are directly aligned with each Course Learning Outcome. They are as follows:

Assessment 1: Data (30%)
Description: Individual task

CLOs 1&2

A recording of fashion objects and their attendant behaviours, patterns, modes or relationships, and actions, etc.

Assessment 2: Intervention (50%)
Description: Individual task

CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4

An intervention into a fashion specific product,  publication or experience of fashion 

Assessment 3: Forum (20%)
Description: Collaborative task

CLOs 1&2

In collaboration with other students, you will enact or disseminate the outcomes of your work both digitally and in situ.

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions