Course Title: Establish and maintain environmentally sustainable creative practice
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5431 Diploma of Interior Design
Course Title: Establish and maintain environmentally sustainable creative practice
Portfolio: Vocational Education
Nominal Hours: 30
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
ENVI5118C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
515T Creative Industries |
Face-to-Face or Internet |
Term1 2024 |
Course Contact: Jenny Crowley
Course Contact Phone: +61399254759
Course Contact Email: jenny.crowley@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to integrate environmentally sustainable approaches into creative art or design practice in order to reduce own ecological footprint across all areas of operation. It involves evaluating environmental sustainability of current practices, ensuring resources are used in a sustainable way and making sustainable decisions to ensure continuous sustainability in the practice.
The unit applies to those who work as artists or designers. Sustainability considerations apply both to activities within the practice and to the design of products and services that might be made, operated or used by others. The practitioner applies a self-directed approach to ensuring the sustainability of own creative practice.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Nil
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
CUAPPR514 Establish and maintain environmentally sustainable creative practice |
Elements: |
1. Evaluate environmental sustainability of current practice 2. Use resources sustainably in own practice 3. Make sustainable design decisions 4. Maintain currency of sustainability issues and options |
Learning Outcomes
Refer to the Elements and Performance Criteria.
Overview of Assessment
In order to be deemed competent for this unit, students need to complete satisfactorily two (2) assessment tasks including a Sustainable products brief & catalogue task and a Sustainable practices training manual task.