Course Title: Design and produce woven products

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6082 Advanced Diploma of Textile Design and Development

Course Title: Design and produce woven products

Portfolio: DSC Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 120

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)

VART5916C

Brunswick Campus

TAFE

350T Fashion & Textiles

Face-to-Face

Term1 2011,
Term1 2012

Course Contact: Julia Raath

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9201

Course Contact Email: julia.raath@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

This unit covers the skills and knowledge required to develop designs and produce woven products to meet a specified design brief.   Coursework applies to the interpretation and analysis of a design brief and development of a design for woven products such as garments, textile products or accessories and upholstery fabrics.   The unit covers both the theoretical aspects of designing for weave as well as giving students the hands on skills required to produce finished woven products.   Students will produce a range of designs and interpret these into woven products suitable for use in commercial applications (interiors, fashion) as well as developing woven products for the ’hand made’ studio based woven textiles marketplace. Students will also undertake research into current trends in the commercial woven textiles industry.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

LMTTD4003A Produce woven textile samples



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

LMTTD5003A Design and produce woven products

Elements:

1 Develop woven product design

2 Plan production of woven design sample

3 Produce woven design sample

4 Evaluate design and production processes


Learning Outcomes

This studio based course gives students the opportunity through practical projects to demonstrate the following skills and knowledge:

• analyse and interpret design briefs
• apply design processes to development of designs
• communicate design concepts
• evaluate and modify designs
• determine production requirements
• produce woven designs

Students will be required to demonstrate the following skills and knowledge:

• organising work & completing tasks
• identifying improvements
• following OH&S practices
• assessing operational readiness of equipment used and work processes
• recognising and adapting to cultural differences in the workplace, including modes of behaviour and interactions
• completing work systematically with attention to detail without damage to goods and equipment


Overview of Assessment

To achieve successful completion of this course students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of competency.   Assessment tasks have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner.   Assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including recording all technical documentation in a workbook, exercises completed in class, exercises completed outside class times, producing of a folio of woven designs and checklists completed by the class teacher during class exercises.   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.   Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher.
All work must be submitted by the due date. Late submission will not be graded higher than a PASS.