DFB305 Critical Fashion Studies
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| Unit code: | DFB305 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | Completion of 48 credit points of Fashion units (DF% coded) |
| Equivalent(s): | DFB602, KFB305 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | DFB305 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 48 credit points of Fashion units (DF% coded) |
| Equivalent: | DFB602, KFB305 |
| Coordinator: | Kathleen Horton | kathleen.horton@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This advanced level unit deepens your critical fashion engagement and consolidates your skills in fashion communication. It prepares you to play a leadership role in shaping the dialogues that are transforming fashion practices. The aim of this unit is to develop your critical, analytical and communication skills in the context of the global fashion industry and wider cultural debates. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach characteristic of current fashion scholarship, this final unit builds on the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in DFB206 Global Fashion Cultures and DFB209 Global Fashion History and provides you with the opportunity to develop sophisticated research and written communication skills, preparing you to contribute to shaping the dialogues and debates that are changing the contemporary fashion industry.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of fashion cultures, practices and industries.
- Provide evidence of advanced skills in the oral and written communication of fashion.
- Formulate forward looking critiques of ethical aspects of the fashion industry or fashion cultures.
Content
This unit explores content such as critical debates in fashion studies; methods in fashion research; theoretical approaches to fashion; critical approaches to intercultural and fashion practices and politics.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will be encouraged to apply a team-based learning approach to the research of critical issues in fashion and the formulation of sophisticated responses. You will engage in seminar debates with your peers and teaching staff in order to develop your oral communication skills. Over this time written and oral communication is refined through a rigorous process of drafting and re-drafting. You are invited to publish a short piece of critical writing and participate in a public dialogue about fashion.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided in the following ways:
- through formative in-class exercises, with oral feedback from your teaching staff
- via criteria sheet grading, including written comments and suggestions
- during all-of-class feedback sessions pertaining to general trends in the cohort
- peer to peer feedback over the semester.
Assessment
Overview
This unit has two summative assessment tasks. The first is a discussion forum where you will contribute to in-class discussions of key issues in the fashion industry. The second is a critical essay, which is developed individually, to be published in an online platform.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Fashion Dialogues
Contribution to class discussion via informal presentations and short written contributions that will allow you to verbalise and crystallise you constructed perspectives regarding wider cultural fashion dialogues.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Fashion Critique
You will individually write a critical essay in response to an issue in the fashion industry. This assessment task will allow you to contribute to the fashion knowledge of your cohort at the same time that will help you identify and strengthen your position as an individual in the multi-layered, complex cultural fashion context.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no set texts for this unit. Links to a range of resources will be provided in the online Canvas site. In addition you will work with your teaching team and peers on developing a portfolio of shared learning resources.
Risk Assessment Statement
All students and staff are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.
There are no undue risks associated with the delivery of this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO3 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO2 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2 - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO3
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | DFB305 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 48 credit points of Fashion units (DF% coded) |
| Equivalent: | DFB602, KFB305 |
Overview
This advanced level unit deepens your critical fashion engagement and consolidates your skills in fashion communication. It prepares you to play a leadership role in shaping the dialogues that are transforming fashion practices. The aim of this unit is to develop your critical, analytical and communication skills in the context of the global fashion industry and wider cultural debates. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach characteristic of current fashion scholarship, this final unit builds on the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in DFB206 Global Fashion Cultures and DFB209 Global Fashion History and provides you with the opportunity to develop sophisticated research and written communication skills, preparing you to contribute to shaping the dialogues and debates that are changing the contemporary fashion industry.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of fashion cultures, practices and industries.
- Provide evidence of advanced skills in the oral and written communication of fashion.
- Formulate forward looking critiques of ethical aspects of the fashion industry or fashion cultures.
Content
This unit explores content such as critical debates in fashion studies; methods in fashion research; theoretical approaches to fashion; critical approaches to intercultural and fashion practices and politics.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will be encouraged to apply a team-based learning approach to the research of critical issues in fashion and the formulation of sophisticated responses. You will engage in seminar debates with your peers and teaching staff in order to develop your oral communication skills. Over this time written and oral communication is refined through a rigorous process of drafting and re-drafting. You are invited to publish a short piece of critical writing and participate in a public dialogue about fashion.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided in the following ways:
- through formative in-class exercises, with oral feedback from your teaching staff
- via criteria sheet grading, including written comments and suggestions
- during all-of-class feedback sessions pertaining to general trends in the cohort
- peer to peer feedback over the semester.
Assessment
Overview
This unit has two summative assessment tasks. The first is a discussion forum where you will contribute to in-class discussions of key issues in the fashion industry. The second is a critical essay, which is developed individually, to be published in an online platform.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Fashion Dialogues
Contribution to class discussion via informal presentations and short written contributions that will allow you to verbalise and crystallise you constructed perspectives regarding wider cultural fashion dialogues.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Fashion Critique
You will individually write a critical essay in response to an issue in the fashion industry. This assessment task will allow you to contribute to the fashion knowledge of your cohort at the same time that will help you identify and strengthen your position as an individual in the multi-layered, complex cultural fashion context.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no set texts for this unit. Links to a range of resources will be provided in the online Canvas site. In addition you will work with your teaching team and peers on developing a portfolio of shared learning resources.
Risk Assessment Statement
All students and staff are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.
There are no undue risks associated with the delivery of this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO3 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO2 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2 - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO3