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BP121 - Bachelor of Textiles (Design)
Plan: BP121P20 - Bachelor of Textiles (Design)
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program delivery and structure
Approach to learning and assessmentWork integrated learningProgram structureProgram transition planApproach to learning and assessment
In this program your learning environment involves a range of experiences and approaches, including face-to-face studios, collaborative workshops, online forums, seminars, presentations, group discussions, individual consultations and field trips. These experiences may involve collaboration with peers, either from within your discipline or through cross-disciplinary collaboration, and with local or international participants. Projects (assignments) will challenge you to: document and analyse particular case study scenarios, generate innovative solutions to specific problems and apply design theory to real world scenarios. Developing innovative design concepts, prototyping and research will form the basis of practice based projects. This will be an opportunity for you to research and analyse any issue and apply the knowledge and skills you are developing to producing a response relevant to textile design practice.
Assessment throughout the program is an integral part of your learning experience. Feedback from assessment will give you the opportunity to reflect upon your capabilities and identify opportunities for further learning. Peer review alongside feedback from the industry forms an integral part of the learning process. As a part of your program you will also participate in regular formative feedback sessions (not graded) to assist you to map your progress and to test, analyse and critique ideas. Examples of specific assessment tasks are included in the relevant Course Guides and may include:
- Partnered Studio Projects with Industry or Community organisations and groups
- Assignments working in teams, online and independently
- Presentations, Performances and Installations
- Written essays and reports
- Written reflection
- Self evaluation
- Peer assessment
- Critique
- Research projects
- Technical Folios/Dossiers
- Class presentations
- Peer or industry review.
Wherever possible, project proposals and presentations will relate to industry specific issues and/or theoretical constructs impacting on textiles and may involve making contact with industry practitioners regarding contemporary issues.
Inherent Requirements
This program has inherent requirements. If you have a disability, long-term illness and/or mental health condition or are the primary carer of individuals with a disability it is possible to have adjustments arranged and negotiated to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the Program Manager or the Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Top of pageWork integrated learning
RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will:
- Undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
- Interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities;
- Complete these activities in real work contexts or situations.
In addition these interactions and the work contexts provide distinctive sources of feedback to you to assist your learning. Any or all of these aspects of a WIL experience may be simulated in a workplace environment.
The Bachelor of Textile (Design) program has a strong set of relationships across a range of industry, related disciplines and community partners. You will engage with industry in a variety of different ways, work with industry partners and explore different discipline contexts and markets for your practice. Your WIL activity and engagement also occurs through the regular engagement, teaching and learning you receive from academic and professional staff members in the program who are practitioners in the field. International and local guest practitioners and industry experts will also critique and give feedback on your work as well as direct project briefs that you will work on.
Primarily industry engagement occurs throughout the three 24 credit point project courses in the program:
GRAP2873 Textile Design Partnered Project
GRAP2874 Textile Design Persona Project
GRAP2869 Textile Design Project Launch
However, many other core courses and option courses include industry engagement. There is opportunity in these projects to partner with other disciplines from the School of Fashion and Textiles, and across RMIT, external industry or community partners both locally and internationally. In addition to 24 credit point design project courses there is further WIL opportunities for specialised placements in the option course Fashion & Textile Industry Placement.
The designated WIL Course is GRAP2873 Textile Design Partnered Project.
In this course, you will ballot to undertake a project to apply your knowledge and skill in your chosen area of specialisation. Projects are aligned to different design approaches, with an emphasis on collaboration and responsive design in relation to a brief posed by an external discipline, industry or community partner.
This course includes a work integrated learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry partners and/or community is integral to your experience.
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Program transition plan
In 2019, the program BP121 Bachelor of Arts (Textiles Design) was renamed the Bachelor of Textiles (Design) and restructured to include course title changes and new courses. Students who completed all requirements for BP121 Bachelor of Arts (Textiles Design) in 2019 graduated with that award title. All students who complete requirements for graduation from 2020 onwards will graduate with the new program title Bachelor of Textiles (Design). All existing BP121 Bachelor Arts (Textile Design) students, including those on leave of absence (LOA), enrolled in a reduced load or who had deferred studies, were transitioned into the new program plan by the end of 2019 and were provided with a study plan and a transition map of same or equivalent courses. Academic progress was considered and reviewed with an academic advisor.
In 2022, the program structure of the Bachelor of Textiles (Design) was amended and the following changes applied:
Program option list:
New course offering MANU2499 Digital Prototyping for Fashion and Textiles (moved from minor list to program option list).
New course offering MANU2496 Fashion Bio Design (course title change from MANU2496 Bio Design for Sustainable Fashion Futures - moved from minor option list to program option list).
Minor option list:
Removal of MANU2499 Digital Prototyping for Fashion and Textiles.
New course offering GRAP2810 Material Alchemy
If you have commenced the Bachelor of Textiles (Design) program prior to 2022, you will not be disadvantaged by these changes and all approved courses undertaken prior to 2022 will contribute toward your degree. You will not incur any extra costs or be required to complete extra credit points because of these changes. Academic advice will be made available and an enrolment plan provided to you on request.
Active students who have completed courses under the previous name will not be required to complete the course again as a result of the title change.
If you are undertaking a reduced load, are on Leave of Absence (LOA), or have deferred studies, you will not be disadvantaged by the change of program structure.
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