FD Specialist Practice & Research 2a (Dalian)

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop ideas by analysing and critically reflecting on concepts and themes
• research and consider some of the concepts and methods in relation to your practice;
• develop individual informed interpretations of your own practice and that of others within your subject.
• critically evaluate the qualities in your work to relate your ideas to an intended context

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• how to creatively integrate and apply a variety of media, processes, technologies and materials to realise your ideas
• a research informed design practice
• innovative practices, concepts and debates in the practice and theory of fashion
• how to identify and apply the skills you will need to practice professionally in fashion

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• explore appropriate pattern cutting, construction techniques and materials
• confidently use a range of appropriate technical workshop skills to realise your ideas;
• make material and technique selections to inform and challenge the practical development of your work
• explore and exploit materials, processes and technologies

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• effectively use a wide range of resources, including library and digital
• communicate ideas effectively in a variety of formats including digital
• study independently and produce work to set deadlines learning
• communicate effectively in a range of media

This module marks the next steps in acquiring and developing practical skills towards increased self-direction and constitutes a stepping stone between working within the more supported teaching of Part 1 and the self-directed project work expected in Part 3.

Your developing knowledge of the context of your ideas will focus on issues specific to international and local contemporary practice. You will be encouraged to experiment with a range of fashion design methods and techniques and through workshops, to further apply your practical knowledge in the development of your ideas in terms of design and the implementation of design ideas in practical design outcomes.

In this module, there will be a particular focus on supporting you to increase your ability to self-direct your project. Elements of the projects you will work on will be “live” briefs: i.e. they will be in partnership with professional design companies or practitioners or will reflect the “real-life” conditions of professional fashion design and production work.

Teaching methods include

• project briefings
• technical demonstrations
• lectures
• practical workshops
• tutorials
• critiques

Learning activities include

• technical demonstrations
• seminars
• workshop-based learning
• peer group learning
• critiques

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

In this module learning and teaching activities focus on helping you to explore and investigate your ideas through studio-based or related activities. Group discussions led by practitioners and technical demonstrations/workshops will increase your knowledge of contemporary fashion design and production practice and help you develop confidence in the selection and use of practical design and making skills. The module will help you to develop an increasingly informed and skilled individual approach to the realisation of a project.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Portfolio Development

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: The purpose of formative feedback is to enhance your learning, help you understand how you are progressing and how you can develop in the future. There are no marks attached and it will not count towards your final mark. There will be a variety of opportunities for formative feedback within the module, for example: tutorials, seminars, peer group assessment and self-assessment.
• 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.