DFB102 Introduction to Fashion Communication
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| Unit code: | DFB102 |
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| Equivalent(s): | KFB103 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | DFB102 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KFB103 |
| Coordinator: | Kathleen Horton | kathleen.horton@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides an introduction to fashion communication and is intended to provide foundational knowledge and skills to pursue further studies in fashion communication. It aims to develop your understanding of fashion as both an everyday cultural form and a complex global industry. Learning in this unit will be important in order to gain an overview of the global fashion system and fashion cultures. You will develop and practise foundational fashion communication skills alongside learning how to apply key theoretical ideas to understanding fashion. This unit will provide you with the conceptual basis to pursue further studies in fashion communication.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate foundational knowledge of fashion cultures, practices and industries.
- Provide evidence of foundational skills in the visual and written communication of fashion.
- Demonstrate skills in both working independently and in a small teams to research, communicate and reflect on fashion knowledge.
Content
The content may cover the following:
- definitions of fashion
- theoretical understandings of fashion
- forms of fashion communication
- the visual and material cultures of fashion
- Australian fashion and global fashion industry
- fashion and digital cultures.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages your learning through building on your everyday lived experience of fashion, and linking this to broader theoretical ideas. Throughout the semester you will be encouraged to explicitly apply new knowledge in professional and personal contexts and to reflect on your insights and your progressive learning in line with successful course completion. The unit is designed to encourage peer-to-peer learning alongside tutor to student learning. Students work together on small formative projects as well as larger summative projects and engage in peer-to-peer assessment. You will access curated on-line resources and you will engage in small collaborative group work with your peers.
In the online mode of this unit, you will learn through engaging in a variety of online activities, online self-directed learning, and weekly research and readings that are designed to support your learning experience. The recorded lectures will examine conceptual and theoretical principles and issues across a variety of fashion communication topics, with a focus on contemporary case studies. Throughout the online delivery of this unit, you will receive support from your instructors and peers. You will have access to online resources and materials, and you will be able to communicate with your instructors and peers via various online platforms. A variety of support materials will be published on the Canvas website to coordinate the unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided in the following ways:
- formative oral feedback from the teaching team and peer-to-peer feedback.
- online criteria sheets
- Canvas general comments to cohort group
- all of class feedback pertaining to general trends in the cohort.
Assessment
Overview
This unit has three summative assessment tasks. The first is a style profile that allows you to demonstrate your foundational knowledge of fashion practices and concepts, and practise skills in both visual and written communication. The second assessment task is a weekly response (critique) that allows you to test your knowledge as you progress through the unit. The third assessment task is a visual essay where you will synthesise visual and textual research into a cohesive communication package.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Style Profile
Assessment: Weekly Response
Assessment: Visual Essay
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.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
There are no set texts for this unit. Recommended references and curated resources will be available from the Canvas site for this unit.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Students will be carrying out primary research for the assignments which may involve visiting retail outlets or cultural precincts. Risks associated with these activities are low. Students should abide by the occupational health and safety requirements of the workplace.
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: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2 - 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: ULO3 - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO3
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | DFB102 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | KFB103 |
Overview
This unit provides an introduction to fashion communication and is intended to provide foundational knowledge and skills to pursue further studies in fashion communication. It aims to develop your understanding of fashion as both an everyday cultural form and a complex global industry. Learning in this unit will be important in order to gain an overview of the global fashion system and fashion cultures. You will develop and practise foundational fashion communication skills alongside learning how to apply key theoretical ideas to understanding fashion. This unit will provide you with the conceptual basis to pursue further studies in fashion communication.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate foundational knowledge of fashion cultures, practices and industries.
- Provide evidence of foundational skills in the visual and written communication of fashion.
- Demonstrate skills in both working independently and in a small teams to research, communicate and reflect on fashion knowledge.
Content
The content may cover the following:
- definitions of fashion
- theoretical understandings of fashion
- forms of fashion communication
- the visual and material cultures of fashion
- Australian fashion and global fashion industry
- fashion and digital cultures.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages your learning through building on your everyday lived experience of fashion, and linking this to broader theoretical ideas. Throughout the semester you will be encouraged to explicitly apply new knowledge in professional and personal contexts and to reflect on your insights and your progressive learning in line with successful course completion. The unit is designed to encourage peer-to-peer learning alongside tutor to student learning. Students work together on small formative projects as well as larger summative projects and engage in peer-to-peer assessment. You will access curated on-line resources and you will engage in small collaborative group work with your peers.
In the online mode of this unit, you will learn through engaging in a variety of online activities, online self-directed learning, and weekly research and readings that are designed to support your learning experience. The recorded lectures will examine conceptual and theoretical principles and issues across a variety of fashion communication topics, with a focus on contemporary case studies. Throughout the online delivery of this unit, you will receive support from your instructors and peers. You will have access to online resources and materials, and you will be able to communicate with your instructors and peers via various online platforms. A variety of support materials will be published on the Canvas website to coordinate the unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided in the following ways:
- formative oral feedback from the teaching team and peer-to-peer feedback.
- online criteria sheets
- Canvas general comments to cohort group
- all of class feedback pertaining to general trends in the cohort.
Assessment
Overview
This unit has three summative assessment tasks. The first is a style profile that allows you to demonstrate your foundational knowledge of fashion practices and concepts, and practise skills in both visual and written communication. The second assessment task is a weekly response (critique) that allows you to test your knowledge as you progress through the unit. The third assessment task is a visual essay where you will synthesise visual and textual research into a cohesive communication package.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Style Profile
Assessment: Weekly Response
Assessment: Visual Essay
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.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
There are no set texts for this unit. Recommended references and curated resources will be available from the Canvas site for this unit.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Students will be carrying out primary research for the assignments which may involve visiting retail outlets or cultural precincts. Risks associated with these activities are low. Students should abide by the occupational health and safety requirements of the workplace.
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: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2 - 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: ULO3 - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO3