DFB104 Fashion Sustainability
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| Unit code: | DFB104 |
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| Equivalent(s): | DFB203, KFB104 |
| 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 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | DFB104 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | DFB203, KFB104 |
| Coordinator: | Zoe Mellick | zoe.mellick@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit is in the developmental stage of the program and provides you with a foundational knowledge of environmental and social impacts of fashion production and consumption. Throughout the unit you will examine the environmental and social impact of different industry business models, materials and production methods in order to develop the skills and mindset to apply more sustainable practices. It also introduces fashion systems as complex supply chains spanning raw fibre through to manufacturing, design, retailing and garment use, disposal systems at end of life, fibre and textiles, industry structures, and business models grounded in sustainable and ethical practices.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify key sustainability issues in the fashion industry within an intercultural context.
- Identify fashion supply chain logistics and their impact on business planning and sustainability.
- Apply written, oral and visual communication skills in the presentation of an analysis and evaluation of fashion industry practices.
- Collaboratively develop a plan to address a key sustainability issue in fashion production and/or consumption.
Content
The content may cover the following:
- fibre and fabric characteristics, types and identification, including sustainable textiles
- sustainability and the product life cycle
- garment use and sustainability
- consumer trends and environmental impact
- social and environmental impact of product manufacture
- the fashion cycle: slow and fast fashion
- fashion supply chain logistics and its importance for business planning and sustainability
- new business models.
Learning Approaches
To support your learning, you will have the opportunity to learn from the teaching team and guest speakers. You will be required to analyse and report on results in order to understand the structures and agents involved in the fashion supply chain. There will be collaborative team-based learning, as an important dimension of the teaching and learning approach in this unit is the development of your capabilities to work in a collaborative environment, where your skills, experiences and understandings will enrich the learning environment.
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 and sustainability 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 to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative individual consultation times including online will be timetabled
- generic comments will be communicated to the cohort via your QUT Canvas unit website
- criteria sheet grading for formative assessment
- industry professionals will be involved in feedback for Assessment 2.
Assessment
Overview
For this unit you have two assessment items that will help you deepen your knowledge and critical capacity to analyse current issues in the fashion industry, and be able to generate solutions for those issues. You will apply principles of sustainability and ethics. The first assessment is an individual report. The second is a group assignment with an individual component.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Fashion Materials and Methods
Assessment: Fashion Futuring
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; however, recommended references and other resources will be available online through QUT Readings. You are encouraged to share resources with your peers and teaching staff during your learning over the semester.
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 head offices of specific companies. 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: ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO4 - 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: ULO3, ULO4 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO4 - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1 - 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
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | DFB104 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | DFB203, KFB104 |
Overview
This unit is in the developmental stage of the program and provides you with a foundational knowledge of environmental and social impacts of fashion production and consumption. Throughout the unit you will examine the environmental and social impact of different industry business models, materials and production methods in order to develop the skills and mindset to apply more sustainable practices. It also introduces fashion systems as complex supply chains spanning raw fibre through to manufacturing, design, retailing and garment use, disposal systems at end of life, fibre and textiles, industry structures, and business models grounded in sustainable and ethical practices.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify key sustainability issues in the fashion industry within an intercultural context.
- Identify fashion supply chain logistics and their impact on business planning and sustainability.
- Apply written, oral and visual communication skills in the presentation of an analysis and evaluation of fashion industry practices.
- Collaboratively develop a plan to address a key sustainability issue in fashion production and/or consumption.
Content
The content may cover the following:
- fibre and fabric characteristics, types and identification, including sustainable textiles
- sustainability and the product life cycle
- garment use and sustainability
- consumer trends and environmental impact
- social and environmental impact of product manufacture
- the fashion cycle: slow and fast fashion
- fashion supply chain logistics and its importance for business planning and sustainability
- new business models.
Learning Approaches
To support your learning, you will have the opportunity to learn from the teaching team and guest speakers. You will be required to analyse and report on results in order to understand the structures and agents involved in the fashion supply chain. There will be collaborative team-based learning, as an important dimension of the teaching and learning approach in this unit is the development of your capabilities to work in a collaborative environment, where your skills, experiences and understandings will enrich the learning environment.
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 and sustainability 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 to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative individual consultation times including online will be timetabled
- generic comments will be communicated to the cohort via your QUT Canvas unit website
- criteria sheet grading for formative assessment
- industry professionals will be involved in feedback for Assessment 2.
Assessment
Overview
For this unit you have two assessment items that will help you deepen your knowledge and critical capacity to analyse current issues in the fashion industry, and be able to generate solutions for those issues. You will apply principles of sustainability and ethics. The first assessment is an individual report. The second is a group assignment with an individual component.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Fashion Materials and Methods
Assessment: Fashion Futuring
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; however, recommended references and other resources will be available online through QUT Readings. You are encouraged to share resources with your peers and teaching staff during your learning over the semester.
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 head offices of specific companies. 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: ULO2 - Demonstrate well-developed cognitive and ideation skills to identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities to address authentic complex problems.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO4 - 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: ULO3, ULO4 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO4 - Embody social and ethical responsibilities and exhibit well-developed judgement with resilience, integrity, curiosity and responsibility.
Relates to: ULO1 - 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