In this course you will work in industry on a placement/ internship or pitch to industry a collaborative project to refine and advance your knowledge of current contemporary fashion industries and develop work ready skills. The placement project may be conducted face to face in a local, interstate, or international workplace as well as online. In addition, it may be from a variety of industry and practice areas connected to your focus and specialisations of practice in fashion design.

This course includes a work integrated learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience.

The WIL experience can involve you working directly onsite in industry on a placement or working on an industry partnered or pitched project or a combination of the two. The course allows scope to tailor the WIL experience to benefit your practice, existing work experience or practice already undertaken and prospective career trajectory. You will be able to determine which type of WIL experience you will undertake, either selecting your own or potentially working on program or school industry projects for this course.

The first phase of this course will develop a draft placement project proposal. You will be required, with support from the program, to select your industry placement, which may be prior to starting the course depending when the placement project will occur and the industry partner's application process. Guidelines will be provided around this in regards to work plan for the placement with recommended commitment of 60 hours or more.

In discussion with the course coordinator there will be a series of milestones and meeting points set up to track your WIL experience.

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.