DFB305 Fashion Justice
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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 |
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Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, 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:
- Critically reflect on fashion justice issues to formulate professional positions.
- Discuss diverse positions on fashion justice issues with peers.
- Plan and collaborate in teams to produce reports about fashion justice issues.
- Source and synthesise research on fashion justice issues.
- Critique fashion justice issues to inform recommendations for change in the fashion industry.
Content
This unit will cover:
- critical debates in fashion studies
- First Nations fashion
- injustices of the fashion system
- methods in fashion research
- theoretical approaches to fashion
- critical approaches to intercultural and fashion practices and politics
- report writing in the fashion industry.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- tutorials
- online and in-class discussions
- online learning materials and readings
You will be encouraged to apply a team-based learning approach to the research of critical issues in fashion justice and the formulation of sophisticated responses. Through the tutorials, written communication is refined through a rigorous process of drafting and re-drafting.
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 written comments and suggestions on your assessments
- peer to peer feedback over the semester.
Assessment
Overview
This unit has three summative assessment tasks.
1. Fashion Dialogue Participation - This task requires you to contribute to online discussions with your peers. These discussions will inform your in-class discussions and Assessment 2.
2. Fashion Dialogues - This task connects in-class discussions with your understanding of the range of positions on key issues in fashion justice through reflection on the discussion activities.
3. Fashion Critique - This task is a report that requires you to work with your peers to further interrogate the key issues in fashion justice covered in this unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Fashion Dialogue Participation
You will engage with stimulus material and respond with comments in an online space.
Assessment: Fashion Dialogues
You will participate in weekly class discussions informed by the unit learning materials. Based on the class discussions you will write a critical reflection that identifies how positions were minimised and amplified.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Fashion Critique
Your group will take on the role of a group of community educators in a non-government organisation (NGO) and you have been asked to write a report on an emerging fashion justice issue to be shared with policy makers and other interested parties.
Individually, you will need to research extant literature that informs the report and is presented as an annotated bibliography.
As a group you will synthesise the research to write a report with recommendations that can be implemented to bring about change that addresses the issue. Your report will need to include supporting images.
Your group will submit a team plan and evidence of how it evolved through the report creation process.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, 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.
Risk Assessment Statement
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, ULO4, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, ULO5, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO5, Fashion Critique - 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, ULO3, ULO5, Fashion Dialogue Participation, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO5, Fashion Dialogue Participation, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO4, ULO5, Fashion Dialogue Participation, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, ULO5, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, 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:
- Critically reflect on fashion justice issues to formulate professional positions.
- Discuss diverse positions on fashion justice issues with peers.
- Plan and collaborate in teams to produce reports about fashion justice issues.
- Source and synthesise research on fashion justice issues.
- Critique fashion justice issues to inform recommendations for change in the fashion industry.
Content
This unit will cover:
- critical debates in fashion studies
- First Nations fashion
- injustices of the fashion system
- methods in fashion research
- theoretical approaches to fashion
- critical approaches to intercultural and fashion practices and politics
- report writing in the fashion industry.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- tutorials
- online and in-class discussions
- online learning materials and readings
You will be encouraged to apply a team-based learning approach to the research of critical issues in fashion justice and the formulation of sophisticated responses. Through the tutorials, written communication is refined through a rigorous process of drafting and re-drafting.
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 written comments and suggestions on your assessments
- peer to peer feedback over the semester.
Assessment
Overview
This unit has three summative assessment tasks.
1. Fashion Dialogue Participation - This task requires you to contribute to online discussions with your peers. These discussions will inform your in-class discussions and Assessment 2.
2. Fashion Dialogues - This task connects in-class discussions with your understanding of the range of positions on key issues in fashion justice through reflection on the discussion activities.
3. Fashion Critique - This task is a report that requires you to work with your peers to further interrogate the key issues in fashion justice covered in this unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Fashion Dialogue Participation
You will engage with stimulus material and respond with comments in an online space.
Assessment: Fashion Dialogues
You will participate in weekly class discussions informed by the unit learning materials. Based on the class discussions you will write a critical reflection that identifies how positions were minimised and amplified.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Fashion Critique
Your group will take on the role of a group of community educators in a non-government organisation (NGO) and you have been asked to write a report on an emerging fashion justice issue to be shared with policy makers and other interested parties.
Individually, you will need to research extant literature that informs the report and is presented as an annotated bibliography.
As a group you will synthesise the research to write a report with recommendations that can be implemented to bring about change that addresses the issue. Your report will need to include supporting images.
Your group will submit a team plan and evidence of how it evolved through the report creation process.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, 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.
Risk Assessment Statement
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, ULO4, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, ULO5, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO5, Fashion Critique - 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, ULO3, ULO5, Fashion Dialogue Participation, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO5, Fashion Dialogue Participation, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO4, ULO5, Fashion Dialogue Participation, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique - Practise self-management of career and learning with enterprise and an entrepreneurial outlook, including the building of personal and professional relationships and partnerships.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3, ULO5, Fashion Dialogues, Fashion Critique