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• Numeracy and quantitative skills including data analysis, interpretation andextrapolation.24 Teaching/Learning and Assessment StrategyCurriculum DesignThe programme is offered as three specialist courses in the fashion subject either as a 3-year full-timecourse or 4-year sandwich course, with placement taking place between Levels 5 and 6.The curriculum design allows for students who do not progress from Level 4 to 5, but who have 120Credits at Level 4, to qualify for a Certificate of Higher Education. Likewise students who do notprogress to Level 6 from 5, but who have 120 Credits at both Level 4 and 5, qualify for a Diploma ofHigher Education.The Programme is designed to facilitate the development of a student who will be highly employableand will allow them to investigate and develop their strengths in one of the 3 chosen specialist courses.The programme will present students with a variety of approaches to learning and assessmentstrategies that will promote students’ intellectual, imaginative, analytical and critical judgement. It willallow students to develop understanding as well as their presentation and communication skills, whichthey will be able to demonstrate in a variety of forms.A combination of different learning and teaching methodologies are employed in order to promotereflective learning and develop generic transferable skills.Methods include:• projects to encourage independent learning through investigation, enquiry and problemsolving;• group project to enhance interpersonal and collaborative skills;• tutorials and group tutorials to facilitate shared experiences and best practice;• Seminars, formal lectures and workshops• Scholastic trips, external projects and competitions present the students with anotherdimension to their leaning experience.• Guest speakers provide the students with a full, broader and real prospective to their specialistfield of study.Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their achievement of the intended learning outcomesthrough a variety of means appropriate to their field of study:The BA (Hons) Fashion Design course is part of the three-year full time programme, with an option toundertake a four-year sandwich programme. This programme is delivered through a variety of learningand teaching methods, which include seminars, tutorials, workshop inductions, study visits, lectures, ITworkshops, library sessions, group projects, and independent research.At Level 4 the unit framework will provide an opportunity for students from widely varied backgroundsand abilities to learn the fundamentals of drawing ensuring that by the end of the year they will becomeproficient in expressing their ideas in 2D with good presentation skills.Pattern cutting and construction classes throughout the first year will give students an introduction tothe technical skills required and how they relate to, and are supported by academic practice andcontemporary fashion design issues. Students will compile a technical file, which includes construction,details and manipulations. Portfolio and Collection Creation Unit will help students aim towards theproduction of an individual portfolio and sketchbooks with photographic reference; sketches, ideas,collages, fabric samples and a range plan for different markets. A great deal of the focus is placed onworking towards practical output through projects set by tutors.The units comprising Level 5 are designed to encourage students to experiment widely and challengetheir existing ideas and approach to design implementing skills learnt from Level 4. To this end, unitswill encourage the students to experiment and develop their own personal style. Students will targettheir collections to a variety of market segments. The creative work will take place in the design andpattern making studio, a realistic working environment in which students experiment with fabrics, print,_________________________________________ ________________________________________Notes of Guidance for Completion of MMU Programme Specification proforma (PS)
pleating, silhouettes and details. Students will work with fabric suppliers, print/knit technicians andsample machinists towards the production of their capsule collection, developing their practical skillswith the support of tutors.Level 5 units will prepare students to express, evaluate and present ideas and information clearly in avariety of forms appropriate to the situation and audience. At this level, students will be introduced tothe practice of keeping Reflective Learning Journals.Students on the sandwich programme who successfully complete level 5 have the option to progressto the Placement Year. This is normally for a minimum period of 36 weeks and on satisfactorycompletion the student is awarded 120 Practice Credits. The Placement Panel, however, reserves theright to recommend to the appropriate Examination Board that a student should progress directly ontothe Level 6 of the programme and thus graduate with a full-time award.Whereas Level 5 encourages diverse experimentation and a challenging approach to thinking, atLevel 6 students’ skills are honed to increasingly produce well-informed finished pieces of work thatcommunicate their ideas. By this stage the students are aiming to work as independent practitioners.Fashion Marketing within units will help students to research and analyse different markets,understand consumer demographics, competitors, price points, marketing methods, promotion and thepreparation of a business plan. At this level of study the student will be equipped to work as a selfemployedentrepreneur.The introduction to Reflective Learning Journals at Level 5 will endow them with the self-analysisnecessary to become independent thinkers at Level 6. A portfolio of developmental work will supportthe final major project, the Collection Design Unit. It will demonstrate the culmination of the students’studies and enable them to develop work capable of confronting clients, employers, sponsors andcurators.At the end of Level 6, students have a choice of units, which they can discuss with their Key Tutor andProgramme Leader. Collection Development allows students to develop their collection further inrelation to industry whilst Industry Portfolio Preparation prepares students for interview with a specificcompany or market level. Both these Units play to the students’ strengths.The BA (Hons) Fashion Styling course is part of the three-year full time programme, with an option toundertake a four-year sandwich programme. This programme is delivered through a variety of learningand teaching methods, which include seminars, tutorials, workshop inductions, study visits, lectures, ITworkshops, library sessions, group projects, and independent research.At Level 4 the unit framework will provide an opportunity for students from widely varied backgroundsand abilities to learn the fundamentals of style research and analysis ensuring that by the end of theyear they will become proficient in referencing their ideas with good presentation skills.The organisation of the first year of study on this course is created to incrementally build the studentskill base, knowledge and confidence. In the first Unit students will get an understanding of thecommunicative value of basic garments, the beginnings of garment and style analysis and how tointerpret these in a modern, contemporary manner. The latter being an ongoing possess throughoutLevel 4.The second unit builds on the first, as the students are looking into the communicative effects oflocation, accessories and objects and its interface with the mood of an image. Here students are askedto use any immediate camera (i-phone would be an excellent example) to create their own images andput together their own photo-shoot. Students are required to give a presentation of their work,processes behind it and to justify their concepts and ideas. The final unit of the first year culminates inthe first “real life” shoot. Students are working in teams, reflecting real life practice, and rotate their rolewithin the team to create a collection of personal images. By the end of Level 4 the fashion stylingstudent will have a clear idea of the range of work and skills that a professional stylist will have. Theywill have experienced a real shoot and be accustomed to organising and arranging all elements thatare needed to work in a team.At Level 5, students are introduced to trend forecasting and predictions across the fashion industry.They will develop an appreciation of the historical, cultural and technological trend influences and beable to identify and argue both macro and micro trends. Editorial styling is a focus in this second yearof the course and students will produce written work as well as images taking into consideration themarket/viewer/consumer after research into these areas. They will be aware of clients, competitorsmarkets and consumers. An analytical knowledge of the role that film, art and music plays in thecreative referencing is intrinsic at this level of study, students need to acquire a global perspective ofall the influences of fashion. This will be supported by relevant study skills sessions and ways ofadvancing the uses of a Reflective Learning Journals. They will develop further both their visual and_________________________________________ ________________________________________Notes of Guidance for Completion of MMU Programme Specification proforma (PS)
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