Embedding Context into Practice

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Ideas, objects, theories and makers that have informed the discipline in a global context

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Integrate context with practice through the process of designing and making a garment
• Resolve conceptual challenges through the process of designing and making a garment

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify strengths and weaknesses in your academic skills

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Test ideas through critical reflection using a variety of physical and digital sources

Through a range of current fashion and culture debates we will introduce you to context and theory to inform and inspire you to be critical of the work of others as well as your own work. Informed by a such a critical context you will be encouraged to reflect on the practice of making in the form of writing and challenged to contextualise your own work through the make of your own unique garment.

We will also highlight the importance of academic integrity and intellectual property i.e. not misrepresenting the work of others as your own, and raise your ethical awareness of embedding certain narratives in your Fashion Design.

The project and content of this module is themed to provide a focused context to the development of your conceptual awareness of fashion design and embed it through practical skills.

Group and one-to-one tutorials are held with specialist staff that will help you to review your progress and development. Group discussion will provide opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation.

• Lectures and visual presentations
• Seminars and tutorial discussions
• Research workshops
• Design development workshops
• Garment pattern cutting workshops
• Garment construction workshops
• Material, colour and fabric exploration
• One-to one tutorials
• Small group discussion and learning
• Formative self-evaluation
• Guided independent research
• Peer group learning
• Study skills hub

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: You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback, contributing to the written summative feedback given at the end of the module.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.