Course Title: Fashion Industry Project
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Fashion Industry Project
Credit Points: 12.00
Course Coordinator: Dr Jason Downs
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 5113
Course Coordinator Email: jason.downs@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 80, City Campus
Course Coordinator Availability: via email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None.
Course Description
This course involves a collaboration between RMIT’s Fashion Design (College of Design and Social Context) and Management (College of Business and Law) teams to support students in the development of meaningful projects with the fashion industry, specifically addressing issues around ethical fashion, CSR and business improvements for sustainability. The course introduces issues such as social entrepreneurship and open innovation, and you will work in teams or individually to tackle an authentic problem faced by the fashion industry, using a project-based approach.
This course is a WIL project, where you will investigate real problems and/or address needs of industry or community. Industry partners are engaged in the project and provide feedback to students.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
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On successful completion of this course you should be able to:
- Describe the ethical, social and corporate issues that provide context to fashion consumption.
- Explain the concepts of social entrepreneurship and open innovation.
- Create a project proposal based on the identification of an opportunity or problem being faced by a local or global fashion brand.
- Develop relevant strategies that are responsive to identified problems and opportunities and communicate these persuasively to stakeholders.
- Work with others in a range of contexts, demonstrating cultural, environmental and social awareness through ethical and reflective practice.
Overview of Learning Activities
This course is delivered as a blend of face-to-face activities (such as: workshops, lectures and group or industry-based tasks) and online learning. Learning will be focused around the completion of a 12-week project, which will be supported through in-class and online activities. This may include: project development activities; guest speakers/expert commentators; prescribed readings; researching and analysing specific information; solving problems; producing artefacts; proposing solutions; seeking and providing peer feedback; and reflective praxis.
Overview of Learning Resources
Various learning resources are available online through MyRMIT Studies/Canvas. Class activities, recordings, notes and outcomes are posted on Canvas.
Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities. Visit the RMIT library website for further details. Assistance is available online via our chat and email services, face to face at our campus libraries or via the telephone on (03) 9925 2020.
Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your course coordinator and will be made available to you as required during the teaching period.
Overview of Assessment
The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows.
Assessment Task 1: 15%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2
Assessment Task 2: 35% (WIL)
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3
Assessment Task 3: 50% (WIL)
Linked CLOs: 1, 3, 4, 5
Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on progress, milestones and approaches, and by individual consultation.