Portfolio & Final Collection (Dalian)

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• contemporary fashion practice
• an in-depth understanding of your specialist discipline encompassing design, industry practices, theory and collection formulation
• how to apply fashion concepts, techniques, and processes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Select, plan, organise and realise your final collection to a professional standard
• Identify an individual approach to fashion design through the realisation of practical work ready for presentation
• resolve conceptual and technical problems in the production and realisation of garments, products and collections
• Confidently use specialist machines and equipment to a professional level

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• present your work appropriately in a professional context
• communicate ideas professionally and effectively in a variety of formats
• independently identify appropriate aims for professional practice and employability
• generate ideas and solve problems independently

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• further develop your personal design identity by critically assessing realised outcomes
• apply enquiry and reflection enabling you to critically evaluate your work
• Make independent critical judgments in the selection and use of ideas, materials, and techniques
• challenge the conceptual and technical practices of fashion design

Formative

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

Portfolio Development

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: The purpose of formative feedback is to enhance your learning, help you understand how your work is developing and how you can improve it in the future. There are no marks attached to formative assessment and it will not count towards your final mark. You will receive feedback through seminars, tutorials and critiques. You will also receive a Formative Assessment Feedback Sheet with written comments.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.