Course Title: Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2011
Course Code: OHTH5461C
Course Title: Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
School: 350T Fashion & Textiles
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program: C4219 - Certificate IV in Fashion and Textiles Merchandising
Course Contact : Carmen Pricone
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99259138
Course Contact Email:carmen.pricone@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Eloise Bishop
eloise.bishop@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 40
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.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This unit covers the outcomes required to effectively analyse the workplace in relation to environmentally sustainable work practices and to implement improvements and monitor their effectiveness.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
MSAENV472A Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices |
Element: |
Element: 1. Investigate current practices in relation to resource usage. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Identify environmental regulations applying to the enterprise. |
Learning Outcomes
In this unit you will be required to develop the skills and knowledge to address processes and techniques necessary to implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices, including the development of processes and tools.
It includes:
• Identifying areas for improvement
• Developing plans to make improvements
• Implementing and monitoring improvements in environmental performance
• Monitor performance
Details of Learning Activities
• Environmental Assessment Audit,
• assessing ethical workplace criteria,
• current sustainability theories in relation to fashion industry and retail environment,
• review of Sustainability events/designers at Fashion Exposed.
Teaching Schedule
(Weekly schedule may vary)
Week 1: (week commencing Monday July 4)
Introduction to unit.
Assessment Requirements.
Film: An Inconvenient Truth
What is sustainability anyway? Discussion
Week 2: (w/c July 11)
Lecture: Approaches to Sustainability
People, Planet, Profit (Triple Bottom Line)
Cradle to Cradle principles
Life Cycle Assessments
Product Stewardship
EMS: ISO 14001 (+ ISO 19011)
Assignment 1 hand out: Individual Presentations (40%)
Week 3: (w/c July 18)
Fashion & Sustainable possibilities.
Sustainability and the consumer
Marketing sustainability: Green washing & transparency in relation to the Trade Practices Act
(Assignment 1 presentations)
Week 4: (w/c July 25)
Ethics & Fashion Production
Film: The dollar a day dress
Guest speaker: Ethical Clothing Australia
(Assignment 1 presentations)
Week 5: (w/c August 1)
Ethics & Fashion Production
Film: China Blue + Discussion
Auditing for Ethics – (Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production - W.R.A.P.)
Fairtrade principles, Corporate Social Responsibility models
(Assignment 1 presentations)
Week 6: (w/c August 8)
Lecture - Fibres & sustainability:
Manufactured fibres, Natural Fibres and Fibre ‘alternatives’.
New textiles and Fabric Technologies.
(Assignment 1 presentations)
Week 7: (w/c August 15)
Guest Lecture: Testex
(Assignment 1 presentations)
Week 8: (w/c August 22)
Lecture - Innovations in Production
Fashion on Demand & Mass customisation
Principles of Biomimicry in design.
Assignment 2 handout: Review of Fashion Exposed & Sustainability (10%)
(Assignment 1 presentations)
Week 9: (w/c August 29)
No Class – class visit to Fashion Exposed on Sunday August 28
Week 10: (w/c September 5)
Reduce, reuse and recycle (+ rethink):
Waste management strategies, waste disposal & resource efficiency issues.
The global textile recycling chain.
Precycling, packaging & Design strategies
Reducing the impact of use-phase
Assignment 3 handout: Visual marketing with sustainable fashion (20%)
(Assignment 1 presentations)
Week 11: (w/c September 12)
Reduce, reuse and recycle (+ rethink):
ISO 14001 Audit research
Assignment 4 handout: Environmental Management Systems Report (30%)
(Assignment 1 presentations)
Week 12: (w/c September 19)
Assignment 2 due in class
(Assignment 3 presentations)
MID-TERM BREAK
Week 13: (w/c October 10)
Rethinking Fast: Slow Fashion/Slow Design
Local and/or Global/ Bioregionalism
Traditional craftsmanship including drapery
User-Creator possibilities
Design-led alternatives, multifunctional clothes
(Assignment 3 presentations)
Week 14: (w/c October 17)
EMS Assignment Research
(Assignment 3 presentations)
Week 15: (w/c October 24)
EMS Assignment Research
(Assignment 3 presentations)
Week 16: (w/c October 31)
EMS Assignment Research
(Assignment 3 presentations)
Week 17 (w/c November 7)
Conclusions: Degrees of Sustainability
(Assignment 4 due in class)
Week 18 (w/c November 14)
Feedback
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Recommended texts: Sustainable Fashion & Textiles Design Journeys, Kate Fletcher |
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Detailed course and assessment requirements and information will be made available to you first week of class. Specific details will be explained to you during scheduled classes.
This course comprises both practical and theory components. You will be expected to attend and participate in class activities.
As well as class activities you will be required to undertake research and assessment practice outside of regular class times and participate in formal assessment tasks.
PLEASE NOTE: work that has not been authenticated during class as your own work will not be considered for assessment.
All assignments and tasks must be completed to be deemed competent.
Referencing must follow RMIT University regulations.
Assessment Tasks
1. Individual Presentation + class discussion (40%)
2. Fashion Exposed Blog Report (10%)
3. Visual marketing with sustainable fashion (20%)
4. EMS audit presentation (Report) (30%)
Assessment Matrix
Visual concepting with sustainable fashion (20%) EMS Report (30%) Individual Presentation (40%) Fashion Exposed Blog Report (10%)
Investigate current practices in relation to resource usage. X X
Set targets for improvements X X
Implement performance improvement strategies. X
Monitor performance. X
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