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Unit of Study EDUC2023 - Industry and Material Practices B (2025)

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  • Pre-requisites

    96 Credit points in a Bachelor of Education course

  • Enrolment information

    Students undertaking the Industrial Technology teaching area are required to attend compulsory skills development workshops.

Unit description

Introduces knowledge and skills to become familiar with the textiles or metal industry’s production processes dependent on the student's specialisation choice. The structure, properties, characteristics, preparation, processing and selection of textiles or metal and textiles or metal products will be examined. Students will develop skills and knowledge related to safety, storage, preparation, processing, presentation, and industry-specific workplace communication skills, leading to the design, preparation, manufacture and presentation of textiles or metal products. 

Unit content

Module 1: Relevant theory, legislation, policy and practice for industry and schools.

Module 2: Material properties knowledge, performance and selection.

Module 3: Production and handling of materials. Properties, characteristics and performance (cont).

Module 4: Past, current and emerging technologies and production practices.

Module 5: Practise in the design and safe production of products using a variety of resources.

Module 6: Practise in the design and safe production of products using a variety of resources (cont).

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Location Domestic International
Online
Term4
N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

define the theory, legislation, policy and practice for the industry

assess the structure, properties and characteristics of products

demonstrate sound industry-specific workplace communication skills including literacy, numeracy, visual communication and industry production drawing applications

demonstrate broad foundational skills and methods for metal or textile products

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