Critical Thinking and Writing for Fashion 1

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• understand and utilise appropriate academic referencing
• study independently and produce work to set deadlines
• effectively use specialist resources including digital
• gather and organise information to inform the development of your written work
• communicate ideas effectively in writing

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• generate ideas through enquiry, analysis and critical reflection
• develop ideas by applying thinking and concepts informed by an art, design and culture context relevant to your practice and discipline

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• fashion design practices, concepts and debates informed by professional, cultural and technological innovations evolving in this field
• contemporary and historical contexts and their influence on the practice and theory of fashion design

Critical Thinking and Writing for Fashion 1 is a Part 2 core module. It promotes and highlights the importance of your critical thinking, reflection and analysis within the creative practice of Fashion Design. The visual and written material will support your personal fashion practice.

You will be able to consider the context in which you are practicing and will be encouraged to articulate through your writing how this context informs and challenges your practice. Lectures, seminars and group discussions will help you develop your thinking to look critically at a range of different concepts and perspectives to help inform your design work.

Lectures would typically cover topics such as:

Fashion History

Fashion and Textiles

Fashion, Art and Design

Fashion and Sustainability

Fashion and Politics

Fashion and Culture

Fashion Futures

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Online support including Blackboard
• Introduction to the module (in Semester 1 for those taking the Study Exchange Module)
• Face-to-face and/or online electronic support if you are studying the Study Exchange module

Learning activities include

• Accessing appropriate library and online material
• Peer learning
• Group discussions
• Independent study
• Self-evaluation
• Study Skills Hub

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

In this module tutorials will support you to become increasingly independent and self-directed learner. The Critical Thinking and Writing for Fashion 1 module encourages you to reflect on your specific area of Fashion Design in a contemporary context.

You will critically reflect on your practical work and through this identify ideas that will inform a considered and creative approach to your work. This means using a context of thinkers, writers, designers and practitioners work to build an argument and develop your ideas further for the essay.

If you are taking the Study Exchange module, you will receive online formative feedback from WSA Academics

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing

Academic Integrity support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash

Blackboard. www.blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard

Study Skills Workshops. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/workshops/

Textbooks

M. Clarke (2007). Verbalising the Visual: Translating art and design into words. Ava Publishing.

Malcolm Barnard (1996). Fashion as Communication. Routledge.

Pat Francis (2009). Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a Line for a Write. Intellect Books.

John Berger (1972). Ways of Seeing. Penguin.

Jennifer Moon (2006). Learning Journals: A Handbook for Reflective Practice and Professional Development. Routledge.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External