Foundations of Fashion

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use machines and equipment competently in the studio and workshops
• Practice and apply introductory fashion design skills, techniques and processes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Plan strategies to evolve your digital skills in line with your discipline’s expectations

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Generate ideas through enquiry and analysis of selected research material

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• The fundamental principles, processes and methods core to your discipline

Through this module you will experience interactive creative and technical workshops, develop a range of core introductory skills and produce a folder of technical, design and presentation outcomes.

A comprehensive accumulation of technical and design processes as well as digital and presentation outcomes will create a confident foundation for future practice in the fashion industry. Formative assessment of skills will help to develop greater familiarity and confidence with core techniques.

An industry informed research project will challenge you to contextualise the techniques and processed explored through this module and inspire you to identify and implement real-world applications and outcomes.

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

Industry guest speakers further enhance your learning insight.

• Set research project
• Visual presentations
• Research and concept development workshops
• Pattern cutting workshops
• Sample making workshops
• Digital design workshops
• Design communication workshops
• Presentation workshops
• One-to one tutorials
• Small group discussion and learning
• Timed sample construction tests
• 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: Feedback on project briefs. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback.
• 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.