COURSE UNIT TITLE

: KNOWLEDGE OF FABRIC AND MATERIAL

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TGA 1206 KNOWLEDGE OF FABRIC AND MATERIAL COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Fashion Clothing Design

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR NESRIN ÖNLÜ

Offered to

Fashion Clothing Design
Textile
Textile and Fashion Design Department

Course Objective

The course aims to inform on definition, general properties and qualities of fabrics, basic constructions of nonwoven surfaces of woven and knitted fabrics types, comprehensively study characteristics and fields of use of woven and knitted material and analyse samples of fabrics based on the above.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Know of general properties of fabrics and their basic characteristics sought after .
2   Be aware of factors to effect fabric construction
3   Recognise types of fabrics
4   Distinguish woven ,nonwoven and knitted surfaces of fabrics
5   Know of differences likely to occur in terms of fields of use of fabric types.
6   Recognise differences in the process of sewing according to fabric types

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition, classification and types of fabrics and instruction on general fabric properties through fabric samples
2 Factors to effect fabric construction
3 What is woven fabric , what is its properties, what is basic types of weaving, weaving by plain weave
4 Properties and types of threads and systems of thread numeration
5 Discussion of types of weaving fabric according to their raw material
6 Definition of properties of cotton-woven fabrics and their types through sampling
7 Definition of properties of wool-woven fabrics and their types through sampling
8 Definition of properties of silk-woven fabrics and their types through sampling
9 Definition of properties of linen-ramie- artificial and sythtetics -woven fabrics and their types through sampling
10 Specified finishing processes applied to weaving fabrics
11 Nonwoven surfaces and their properties
12 Midterm exam
13 Knitted fabrics and their properties and ways of production
14 Types of knitted fabrics

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings: :
Dokuma Tekniği I, II Zahide Imer, Mayaş Matbaacılık ve Yayıncılık, Ankara, 1987.
Dokuma Tekniği ve Sanatı, Güngör Başer;Cilt I,II, Punto Yayıncılık Ltd. Şti., Izmir, 2005
Tasarımda Konstrüksiyon Esasları, Altuğ Acuner, Türk Tekstil Vakfı Yayınları, Istanbul, 2001

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Courses
Lecturer leads students to associate between types of fabrics, kinds of garments and fields of consumption, find solutions to the problems concerned and make them prepare fabric cataloques and reports of fields of consumption.

Reviewing sessions and classroom discussions
Lecturer performs reviewing sessions at the first and the last hour of on-week courses classroom assigments and homeworks consist in problems to be solved in the above- said sessions and discussions. Students participation in classroom discussions, preparation of fabric cataloques and presantation of their approaches to the related processes.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 ATT ATTENDANCE
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + ATT * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + ATT * 0.10 + RST * 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Students prepare fabric cataloques involving weaving,knitting and nonwoven surfaces of fabrics related to different types of material.
Knowledge of fabrics accompanied by prepared cataloques
Grading students by their partipation is based on
1 attendance to courses
2 quality of answers to questions by lecturer in classroom activity and related project assignment
3 and contribution of students to creation of positive classroom enviroment.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. It is compulsory to attend to lecture by 70%
2. Any attempt to commit piracy/plagiarism will be harshly punished by the disciplinary board
3. Nonattendance to the lecture can not be an excuse for students to deliver assigments /projects late
4. undue delivery of assigments/homeworks will be punished by reducing grade of one point per-day

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

onlunesrin@gmail.com
0(232)4129002

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 3 3
Preparing assignments 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 62

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.255351
LO.33351
LO.45553
LO.55533
LO.655