Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool School of Art & Design
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
4106FC-JAN-MTP
Aims
To develop key concepts and ways of thinking about fashion practices in both design and communication with relation to context and culture. To engage in debate and analysis to broaden and deepen knowledge and understanding of contemporary fashion practices resulting in a written assignment. To facilitate an investigation into the relation between content and visual presentation with the opportunity to present the results through a body of work.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate an ability to understand the relationship between fashion and cultural signification resulting in a scholarly written assignment.
2.
Demonstrate through supporting studies an ability to investigate, interpret and analyse secondary sources using appropriate research tools in relation to fashion contexts and culture.
3.
Effectively communicate contextual studies concepts and theories, through a body of work.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:This module will focus on further exploration of fashion contexts and concepts linked to practice and thematic approaches. Each lecture will address particular ideas and issues which have contributed to the development of fashion, as design profession, a communication method and a meaningful cultural entity. Critical texts will accompany lectures and these will enable a fuller understanding of our contemporary fashion culture building a knowledge of its social and historical legacy. Key themes may include; the development of fashion imagery, technology and production, the fashion consumer, gender and clothing, visual literacies. The seminars and tutorials will focus on the critical debates which inform our understanding of fashion and research and study skills appropriate to the assignments.
Module Overview:
This module will allow you to develop key concepts and ways of thinking about fashion practices in both design and communication with relation to context and culture. You will also engage in debate and analysis to broaden and deepen your understanding of contemporary fashion practices resulting in a written assignment and a physical or digital artefact.
This module will allow you to develop key concepts and ways of thinking about fashion practices in both design and communication with relation to context and culture. You will also engage in debate and analysis to broaden and deepen your understanding of contemporary fashion practices resulting in a written assignment and a physical or digital artefact.
Additional Information:This module will give students the opportunity to develop key research skills and themes to link to their studio practice and the broader context of the creative industries. There will be a range of briefs to cover theoretical and historical issues culminating in a written assignment and a physical or digital artefact.