Quality Control and Safety in Children’s Clothes (5 ECTS)

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the students are able to:
• recognize the quality and safety of children's clothing, taking into account the child's developmental stages.
• recognize and consider the safety of children’s clothing based on legislation and standards.
• utilize the safety standards of children's clothing in manufacture and production.
• take into account the child's physical and motoric development in pattern making and sizing.
• describe children's growth phases and clothing size systems.
• recognize the dimensions of the child's body and utilize sizing charts in sizing and pattern making.
• draw up sizing and instructions for children’s swear for outsourced manufacturing.

Content

Safety standards for children's clothing. Children's growth phases, body dimensions, standardized tables. Pattern making and grading, sizing and production instructions for children's clothing.

Prerequisites

Competencies corresponding to the goals of the following courses:
Garment Structures and Clothing Technology for Manufacturing; Technical Design and Pattern Making: Women's Clothing 1 and 2; Pattern Making and Grading for Manufacturing; Technical Design and Pattern Making: Men's Clothing; Pattern Making, Sizing and Quality Control of Knitwear.

Teaching methods

Interactive lecture
Small group tutorial
Individual Tutorials

Location and time

Arabia, Helsinki

Learning materials and recommended literature

N/A

Alternative completion methods of implementation

N/A

Internship and working life connections

N/A

Exam dates and retake possibilities

N/A

International connections

N/A

Student workload

1 credit = 27 hours of student work

Content scheduling

N/A

Further information for students

N/A

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment
Learning assignments

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The students have partly reached the goals of the course. They have adequately completed the set assignments.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The students have successfully reached the goals of the course. They have successfully completed the set assignments applying learned information.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The students have reached the goals of the course to an excellent degree. They have completed the set assignments applying learned information with distinction.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass:
The students have partly reached the goals of the course. They have adequately completed the set assignments.