Course Title: Perform industrial sewing on textile products

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5213 Diploma of Textile Design and Development

Course Title: Perform industrial sewing on textile products

Portfolio: DSC Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 50

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
GRAP5215C	Brunswick Campus	TAFE	350T Fashion & Textiles	Face-to-Face or Workplace	Term1 2010, Term2 2012, Term2 2013, Term2 2014, Term2 2015, Term2 2016

Course Contact: Peter Bonnell

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99259171

Course Contact Email: peter.bonnell@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This course is designed to give you the skills and knowledge required to perform industrial sewing on textile products.

The unit applies to sewing work using an industrial sewing machine. Sewing operations may be performed to repair or finish textile products using a single machine on a limited range of fabrics and textile products.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	LMTTX2012B Perform industrial sewing on textile products
Elements:	1 Prepare work 2 Prepare workstation 3 Identify poor machine performance 4 Sew textile product 5 Complete work

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge to demonstrate competency in the above elements.This course is a workshop based course. Students will undetake a number of technical exercises that enable them to perform industrial sewing.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment is ongoing throughout the course and students will be asked to demonstrate their competency. Assessment will be done by observation and by questioning by the assessor. Assessment tasks have been designed to measure competency in a flexible manner. To achieve successful completion of this course students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of competency.

Students will be awarded a grade only if competency has been demonstrated within the standard enrolment period on the first assessment attempt.
Units assessed as ‘not yet competent’ on a first assessment attempt and ‘competent’ on a second or subsequent attempt are to have results amended to competent but are not eligible for grading.

All work must be submitted by the due date.

Late submission will not be graded higher than a PASS.