BP328 - Bachelor of Fashion (Design)

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Plan: BP328 - Bachelor of Fashion (Design)
Campus: Brunswick Campus

Program delivery and structure

Approach to learning and assessment
Work integrated learning
Program structure
Program transition plan

Approach 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. Thiswill 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 fashion.

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 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 fashion and may involve making contact with industry practitioners regarding contemporary issues.

Inherent Requirements

The following information on inherent requirements outlines the tasks you will be required to undertake during professional placement and on-campus learning activities. The non-academic abilities listed are provided for information only and are not entry requirements. If there are any activities outlined which may be difficult for you to undertake, there are a range of adjustments to your study conditions available to enable and support you to demonstrate these abilities. Please contact the Equitable Learning Service to discuss any adjustments
you may require.

By understanding the types of activities you’ll participate in, you can:

  • understand more about the program
  • determine if you may need support during your studies
  • make an informed decision about whether the program is suitable for you

If you are living with disability, long-term illness and/or a mental health condition, we can support you by making adjustments to activities  in your program so that you can participate fully in your studies. To receive learning adjustments, you need to register with Equitable Learning Service. The University considers the wellbeing and safety of all students, staff and the community to be a priority in on-campus learning and professional experience settings.

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Work 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 practice
  • Interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities
  • Complete these activities in real work contexts or situations

These interactions and the work contexts provide distinctive sources of feedback to assist your learning. Any or all of these aspects of a WIL experience may be simulated in a workplace environment. 

The Bachelor of Fashion (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 context 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 lead project briefs that you will work on.

Primarily industry engagement occurs throughout the three 24 credit point project courses in the program, but 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 GRAP2683 Fashion and Textiles Industry Placement.

The designated WIL Course is GRAP2833 Fashion 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 Structure

To graduate you must complete the following. All courses listed may not be available each semester.
 

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Year One

Complete the following Six (6) Core Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Introduction to Fashion Design Practice 12 GRAP2832 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Expressions 12 GRAP2821 Brunswick Campus
Fashion and Textiles Materials 12 GRAP2816 Brunswick Campus
Fashion, Textiles, Place and Story 12 SOCU2301 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Industry Techniques 12 GRAP2819 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Reuse 12 GRAP2820 Brunswick Campus
AND
Select Two (2) Courses from the Program Options (listed at the end of the program structure)
 
AND

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Year Two

Complete the following Three (3) Core Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Transform Fashion Design Materials 12 GRAP2837 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Communication Design 12 GRAP2817 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Partnered Project 24 GRAP2833 Brunswick Campus
AND
Select Three (3) Courses from the Program Options list AND/OR the Fashion and Textiles Minors listed at the end of the program structure.
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
 
AND

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Year Three

Complete the following Four (4) Core Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Fashion Design Persona Project 24 GRAP2834 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Strategies and Environments 12 GRAP2877 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Project Launch 24 GRAP2835 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Presentation Design 12 GRAP2822 Brunswick Campus
AND
Select One (1) Course from the Program Options list AND/OR the Fashion and Textiles Minors (listed at the end of the program structure)
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
 
AND

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Program Options

Program Option List:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Garment Design Industry Techniques 12 GRAP2831 Brunswick Campus
Fashion and Dress 12 GRAP2815 Brunswick Campus
Custom Fashion Design Industry Techniques 12 GRAP2814 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Object and Space 12 GRAP2828 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Performance and Function 12 GRAP2829 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Diversity 12 GRAP2818 Brunswick Campus
Fashion and Textile Industry Placement 12 GRAP2683 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Global Experience 12 GRAP2684 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Languages and Writing 12 GRAP2827 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design, Wear, Use and Consumption 12 GRAP2830 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Body Artefacts and Accessories 12 GRAP2825 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Design Compositions and Styling 12 GRAP2826 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Bio Design 12 MANU2496 Brunswick Campus
Digital Prototyping for Fashion and Textiles 12 MANU2499 Brunswick Campus
 
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Minor List

List of Minor(s):
 
AND
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Minor: Textile Design

Select and Complete Four (4) Courses from the following:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Introduction to Textile Design Practice 12 GRAP2858 Brunswick Campus
Digital Textile Design 12 GRAP2859 Brunswick Campus
Contemporary and Ethical Textiles 12 GRAP2860 Brunswick Campus
Knitted Textile Design 12 GRAP2861 Brunswick Campus
Woven Textile Design 12 GRAP2862 Brunswick Campus
Screen Printed Textile Design 12 GRAP2863 Brunswick Campus
Digital Printed Textile Design 12 GRAP2864 Brunswick Campus
Textile Surface Transformations 12 GRAP2865 Brunswick Campus
Textile Design Illustration 12 GRAP2866 Brunswick Campus
Knitted Textile Form 12 GRAP2867 Brunswick Campus
Textile Design, Colour and Surface 12 GRAP2868 Brunswick Campus
 
OR

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Minor: Fashion & Textiles Sustainable Innovation

Select and Complete Four (4) Courses from the following:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Introduction to Sustainable Innovation for Fashion and Textiles 12 MANU2502 Brunswick Campus
Methods for User Centred Design 12 MANU2514 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Ethics 12 SOCU2303 Brunswick Campus
Sustainable Materials 12 MANU2510 Brunswick Campus
Material Techniques for a Circular Economy 12 MANU2503 Brunswick Campus
Digital Techniques and the Body 12 MANU2500 Brunswick Campus
Smart and Active Materials 12 MANU2508 Brunswick Campus
Wearable Technologies 12 MANU2512 Brunswick Campus
Fashion AI 12 COSC2785 Brunswick Campus
Material Alchemy 12 GRAP2810 Brunswick Campus
 
OR

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Minor: Fashion Enterprise

Select and Complete Four (4) Courses from the following:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Introduction to Fashion Enterprise 12 BUSM4789 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Consumer Insights 12 MKTG1450 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Merchandise Management 12 MKTG1438 Brunswick Campus
Introduction to Fashion Retailing 12 MKTG1442 Brunswick Campus
Introduction to Fashion Marketing 12 MKTG1446 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Enterprise Creation 12 BUSM4795 Brunswick Campus
Fashion and Luxury Brand Management 12 MKTG1454 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Buying Strategies 12 MKTG1448 Brunswick Campus
Fashion Enterprise Global Experience 12 BUSM4793 Brunswick Campus
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Program transition plan

In 2022, the program structure of the Bachelor of Fashion (Design) was amended and the following changes applied:

Program option list:
Removal of GRAP2811 Bio Fashion Design and Materials.
New course offering MANU2496 Bio Fashion Design (change of title from MANU2496 Bio Design for Sustainable Fashion Futures and moved from minor option list to program option list). 
New course offering MANU2499 Digital Prototyping for Fashion and Textiles (moved from minor option list to program option list).

Minor option list:
Removal of MANU2496 Bio Design for Sustainable Fashion Futures (course title change to MANU2496 Fashion Bio Design and moved from minor option list to program option list).
Removal of MANU2499 Digital Prototyping for Fashion and Textiles.
New course offering GRAP2810 Material Alchemy 

If you have commenced the Bachelor of Fashion (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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