School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Fashion and Materials
  • Unit Code

    FME2107
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Sandy SMITH

Description

This unit is designed to increase and strengthen students understanding and technical skills in Materials aligning with sustainability and technology, as well as demonstrating speciality skills and techniques used in practical garment construction. Students participate in workshops which incorporate adapting existing flat patterns, sustainably modifying existing garments, using current textiles technologies and textile techniques for garment construction. Both practical and technical aspects in this unit are linked to self-directed research, construction of garments, journals and presentations, for future teaching practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed CSC1175 and CSC3275

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded FAS2107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply appropriate techniques in existing flat patterns to make sized patterns for garments.
  2. Interpret evidence-based textile construction techniques and technologies to construct original professionally finished fitted garments.
  3. Review the economic, social, and environmental sustainability factors of a garment's lifecycle to modify and enhance the garment.
  4. Design and construct an original modified garment, clearly indicating the decision-making processes applied.
  5. Examine and classify various patterns and material samples to use as a teaching resource.

Unit Content

  1. Alter and modify flat patterns.
  2. Garment construction techniques.
  3. Research economic, social and environmental factors which influence the lifecycle of garments.
  4. Modify existing garments.
  5. Presentation of garment showing design changes and decision-making process.
  6. Build a portfolio of patterns, samples and visual research for future use.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Practical skills. Use of various technologies and materials. Creation of a folio/journal for own future teaching practice.

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
ProjectProject one - pattern making 40%
ProjectProject two - modified garment and journal60%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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