Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Practice
  • Unit Code

    FAS3103
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit will explore the practicalities of developing, marketing and exhibiting a collection/event or exhibition for the public. It will explore the development of an identity or label within a number of cultural and social paradigms to give context to the student?s practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from FAS3205

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Brand/style the collection for a specific market.
  2. Collaborate with photographer, model and stylist to develop photographic project.
  3. Create a self-directed body of work that explores ideas for context of exhibition and/or parade/performance.
  4. Describe the ethical and social issues embodied in their practice.
  5. Locate possible marketing potentials as context for their practice.

Unit Content

  1. Continue to develop and refine self-directed body of work/collection.
  2. Documentation skills in photography and digital media.
  3. Practical/marketing organisation of event or exhibition.
  4. Presentation of work through oral discussion and appropriate use of communication technologies.
  5. Professional practice.
  6. Work with industry bodies to build sponsorship relationships and ongoing support structures for a public event.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Demonstrations, Workshops.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPhotographic assignment40%
Creative WorkCollection60%

Text References

  • Jones, T. (Ed.). (2005). Fashion now 2. London: Taschen.
  • Blanchard, T. (2004). Fashion and graphics. London: Laurence King Publishing.
  • Jones, T. (Ed.). (2003). Fashion now: i-D selects the world's 150 most important designers. London: Taschen.
  • Phaidon Press (Eds.). (2006). Sample:100 fashion designers - 010 curators - cuttings from contemporary fashion. New York: Phaidon Press.

Journal References

  • Purple journal
  • Fashion theory: The journal of dress, body and culture
  • Grafik: We love design
  • Contemporary
  • Purple fashion

Website References


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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Practice
  • Unit Code

    FAS3103
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit will explore the practicalities of developing, marketing and exhibiting a collection/event or exhibition for the public. It will explore the development of an identity or label within a number of cultural and social paradigms to give context to the student?s practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from FAS3205

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Brand/style the collection for a specific market.
  2. Collaborate with photographer, model and stylist to develop photographic project.
  3. Create a self-directed body of work that explores ideas for context of exhibition and/or parade/performance.
  4. Describe the ethical and social issues embodied in their practice.
  5. Locate possible marketing potentials as context for their practice.

Unit Content

  1. Continue to develop and refine self-directed body of work/collection.
  2. Documentation skills in photography and digital media.
  3. Practical/marketing organisation of event or exhibition.
  4. Presentation of work through oral discussion and appropriate use of communication technologies.
  5. Professional practice.
  6. Work with industry bodies to build sponsorship relationships and ongoing support structures for a public event.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Demonstrations, Workshops.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPhotographic assignment40%
Creative WorkCollection60%

Text References

  • Jones, T. (Ed.). (2005). Fashion now 2. London: Taschen.
  • Blanchard, T. (2004). Fashion and graphics. London: Laurence King Publishing.
  • Jones, T. (Ed.). (2003). Fashion now: i-D selects the world's 150 most important designers. London: Taschen.
  • Phaidon Press (Eds.). (2006). Sample:100 fashion designers - 010 curators - cuttings from contemporary fashion. New York: Phaidon Press.

Journal References

  • Purple journal
  • Fashion theory: The journal of dress, body and culture
  • Grafik: We love design
  • Contemporary
  • Purple fashion

Website References


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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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