Module overview
Through this preparatory module you consolidate your new found thinking developed over your second year with in-depth and personal research and experimental prototyping to build a strong concept underpinned with an equitable perspective for consciously considered design. This is your opportunity to either
1.expand your ideas across a collection of developed looks demonstrating an ability to skilfully consolidate a range of considerations
or
2.in collaboration with partners who complement your skills, knowledge and advanced concepts ‘hone in’ on a specialist fashion outcome that addresses future fashion needs.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Reflect and engage with critical feedback to enhance your work for an audience
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- How Diverse and Equitable perspectives, relating but not limited to race, ethnicity, age, disability, gender, class, faith and sexual orientation innovate and enhance civic society and social engagement
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Identify an individual approach to fashion design through the realization of practical work
- Demonstrate innovative exploration and experimentation with fashion materials and technologies
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Test concepts, strategies and experiments to investigate, and problem solve through effectively interacting with others and knowledge exchange
Syllabus
Final Project Preparation builds on your experiences in Part 1 and 2, by providing a focus through which you can begin to synthesise your skills, ideas and working methods into ambitious fashion outcomes. You will analyse and evaluate your ideas and practice to acquire the direction and skills needed to develop your work. An increasingly thorough understanding of critical thinking will help you recognise the strengths of what you are producing and the purpose you are producing them for.
You will continuously question and evaluate your work to arrive at focused creative outcomes which demonstrate qualities of originality, coherence and detailed understanding of how to apply specific materials and techniques to produce considered pieces of work. You will be encouraged to be highly independent and self-motivated and to strive for ambition and confidence in the presentation of your work.
Although the work undertaken in this module may resemble output produced in previous levels, the quality and depth of contextual awareness will be higher. The work and outcomes of this module inform the focus and thinking of the Final Major Project module in Part 3 semester 2.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching and learning methods include:
• Project Brief
• Lectures and visual presentations
•Seminars and tutorial discussions
•Research support
•Design development support
•Garment pattern cutting support
•Garment construction support
•Digital technologies and processes
•One-to one tutorials
•Small group discussion and learning
•Formative self-evaluation
•Guided independent research
•Peer group learning
•Presentation
•Critical reviews
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 252 |
| Teaching | 48 |
| Total study time | 300 |
Assessment
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: Feedback on project brief. 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.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
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.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |