This is a rolling deadline
The School of Fashion & Textiles seeks qualified applicants to serve as Subject Matter Expert in Historical Patternmaking for our new MA in Bespoke & New Couture program. The Subject Matter Expert will develop course content for an online asynchronous curriculum and contribute to a growing, dynamic community of diverse global online educators. The MA in Bespoke & New Couture is a new hybrid degree program that focuses on slow fashion, artisanship and innovation and combines distance learning with onsite courses in Florence, Italy in collaboration with Polimoda. The course runs online for 13 weeks. Subject Matter Experts who write the course will have the opportunity to also teach.
Job Function:
Develop online asynchronous course instruction content and media (video demos, presentations etc.) in historical patternmaking for men’s and women’s garments. In this course, students explore the evolution of fashion and study historical garment designs, details, and construction as inspiration for contemporary designs, construction and patternmaking. Students will learn the history of period dress and their cultural context/uses, patternmaking techniques and fit. Students will explore the importance of historical research and garment analysis to identify construction details, trims, seams and finishings for interpretation and contemporary relevance and fit.
Primary Responsibilities
● Coordinate and collaborate with Program Director to plan, schedule, and execute course development projects within the given deadlines for initialization and completion.
● Provide detailed course content for delivery across a 13-week term, according to SFT’s online instructional needs and standards.
● Provide timely, periodic, and meaningful updates on progress to both the Program Director, and any instructional designers supporting the course development project.
● Provide organized presentations, discussion prompts, assignments, grading rubrics and relevant critique formats as part of a contemporary and progressive fashion pedagogy that aligns with the course description and course learning outcomes.
Qualifications
● MA, MFA or substantial professional experience in technical design, patternmaking, costume design, construction.
● Fashion history and/or costume focus.
● Must be proficient in patternmaking skills.
● Ability to parlay historical techniques into creative and contemporary concepts, cuts, proportions,
and designs.
● College-level teaching experience preferred.
● Asynchronous online experience a plus.
Compensation
- $10K usd for online asynchronous course content development
- $7-$8K usd for teaching 13-week course
- How to Apply
Review of applicants will begin immediately. Please email the following to mung-lar.lam@polyu.edu.hk: - Cover letter
- Updated CV
- Examples of your professional work (website link or digital portfolio of 3 relevant projects), and student work (preferred but not required). PDF format is preferred, however the size limit for individual files is 5MB.
