School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Garment Research
  • Unit Code

    FAS2301
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Justine Shonah MCKNIGHT

Description

This unit introduces students to practical research approaches through formal and conceptual deconstruction of pre-existing garments. It builds on previous coursework strategies to support the development of independent approaches to designing and problem-solving garment forms. The unit considers a range of creative methodologies in a global context with analysis of intent within the fashion system. It introduces students to the project proposal as a way to sort, plan and communicate aims for a body of work developed from research.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed FAS2201 Textile Design before being allowed to enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded FAS2101.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Undertake practical and theoretical research through formal and conceptual investigation and deconstruction of garment.
  2. Review the research and formulate a proposal and timeline for the development of a self-directed body of work.
  3. Operate independently to produce a cohesive body of work that applies the research in formally, aesthetically and conceptually appropriate ways.
  4. Evaluate formal outcomes and practice methodology through visual and verbal communication.
  5. Research a practice methodology in a chosen example of creative practice.

Unit Content

  1. Practical research approaches through investigation of found’ garment. Historical, contextual and formal investigation of garment.
  2. Self-directed research methods.
  3. Critical analysis of formal methodologies.
  4. Garment deconstruction approaches.
  5. Presentation of work.
  6. Designer research and presentation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars involve practical research and investigation processes supported with studio workshops and demonstrations. Students develop self-directed design outcomes with guidance from the lecturer and technical studio assistance. Journal work and research is undertaken to inform the work and reflect on the creative design process and work outcomes.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectGarment Research 40%
ProjectSmall collection and proposal40%
AssignmentDesigner research20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Garment Research
  • Unit Code

    FAS2301
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Justine Shonah MCKNIGHT

Description

This unit introduces students to practical research approaches through formal and conceptual deconstruction of pre-existing garments. It builds on previous coursework strategies to support the development of independent approaches to designing and problem-solving garment forms. The unit considers a range of creative methodologies in a global context with analysis of intent within the fashion system. It introduces students to the project proposal as a way to sort, plan and communicate aims for a body of work developed from research.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed FAS2201 Textile Design before being allowed to enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded FAS2101.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Undertake practical and theoretical research through formal and conceptual investigation and deconstruction of garment.
  2. Review the research and formulate a proposal and timeline for the development of a self-directed body of work.
  3. Operate independently to produce a cohesive body of work that applies the research in formally, aesthetically and conceptually appropriate ways.
  4. Evaluate formal outcomes and practice methodology through visual and verbal communication.
  5. Research a practice methodology in a chosen example of creative practice.

Unit Content

  1. Practical research approaches through investigation of found’ garment. Historical, contextual and formal investigation of garment.
  2. Self-directed research methods.
  3. Critical analysis of formal methodologies.
  4. Garment deconstruction approaches.
  5. Presentation of work.
  6. Designer research and presentation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars involve practical research and investigation processes supported with studio workshops and demonstrations. Students develop self-directed design outcomes with guidance from the lecturer and technical studio assistance. Journal work and research is undertaken to inform the work and reflect on the creative design process and work outcomes.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectGarment Research 40%
ProjectSmall collection and proposal40%
AssignmentDesigner research20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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