Course Title: Cultural and Contemporary Vietnamese Textiles

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Cultural and Contemporary Vietnamese Textiles

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

OART1071

RMIT University Vietnam

Undergraduate

840H School of Communication and Design

Face-to-Face

 Viet3 2024

Course Coordinator: Anna Rylander

Course Coordinator Phone: N/A

Course Coordinator Email: anna.rylander@rmit.edu.vn

Course Coordinator Location: RMIT Vietnam, Hanoi Campus

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None


Course Description

During this guided immersion, we will explore the heritage of textiles from selected ethnic minority groups in Việt Nam. This course delves into traditional textile practices, symbolic motifs, and narratives. We will learn from their practice of developing materials and what they are used for. In contrast we will explore contemporary textile manufacturing, as well as contemporary textile designers’ practice often based on the Vietnamese culture and heritage. The focus extends beyond aesthetics, to address sustainability and the pertinent issues faced by the textile industry in Việt Nam. Through village visits, industry visits, talks, workshops, and museum visits you will explore the rich tapestry of knowledge that Việt Nam has to share with us.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course will complement the RMIT capabilities you are developing in your program.


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Identify cultural and contemporary Vietnamese textiles. 
  2. Critically assess cultural and contemporary methods of textile production in Vietnam in context of social, commercial and sustainability issues.
  3. Work with others in a range of roles and contexts, demonstrating cultural, environmental and social awareness through ethical and reflective practice.
  4. Demonstrate creativity, critical thinking, innovation and reflection to identify and solve problems in diverse contexts within the field of textiles as well as your own practice.


Overview of Learning Activities

We commence the course online as we initially will be in different locations. We will share history and culture of Việt Nam related to the course content. Best practices for being a visitor of a different culture as a student. We will be going through our itinerary, reading list and other recommendations related to the course.

In the face-to-face travel* part of the course, you will engage and learn in the field, directly from selected ethnic minority groups, industry visits, talks, site visits, workshops and museums, as well as from each other through collaborative engagement. You will also collaborate with your peers in critically reflective discussion of pertinent issues in the textile industry and about your experience.

You will compile a travel journal, a visual diary/sketchbook, that will form the foundation of your own creative development or critical essay. Through notetaking, drawings, photographs and other collected materials that relates to your practice and experience, you will cultivate a more critically informed process of your own work. You will have assessment tasks to complete after your trip hence the importance of the travel journal.

*Please note that course enrolment fees or RMIT Training fees do not include tour costs. Refer to the Course Coordinator for details about travel and accommodation costs; tour costs and deadlines.

We will need your full engagement to the meetings prior to departure as well as completing all administrative tasks required.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.

There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.

Students will have access to the Fashion Lab at RMIT Hanoi for you to further their own work, group activities, tutorials, and final presentations. 

 


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and your development against the program learning outcomes.

Your assessment submission will evidence your learning during and after the tour, reflecting on your experience and the relevance to your practice or understanding of your area of study. The assessment tasks will enable you to record and summarize your experiences, develop your critical observation skills, and contextualize and make connections between the social, historic, cultural and artistic aspects of this study tour.

Assessment Tasks

  • Assessment Task 1: Documentation; travel journal/visual diary/sketchbook with a critical reflection as a part of the process., 50% CLO1, CLO2.
  • Assessment Task 2: Critical Essay or Creative Response, 50%, CLO2, CLO3, and CLO4.

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.