Online Course from Future Learn Entitled Who Made My Clothes?

Do you ever think about where your clothes come from, who made them, how and at what cost? Future Learn gives you the chance to answer these questions by an online course; Who Made My Clothes? This course will share with you a variety of simple techniques to find the answer yourself and to use your findings to press the fashion industry to value people, the environment, creativity, and profit in equal measure.

This course is for:

• Anyone with an interest in fashion, trade, ethics, and activism.
• Teachers who want to enrich their school, further education, and higher education curricula.
• The themes will draw together from Geography, Fashion, and Textile, English Language, Historical Enquiry, Politics, Sociology, Art, Economics, Environmental Studies, Global Citizenship, Sustainable Development, Personal and Social Studies.
• It is possible to participate in the course using skills and knowledge acquired outside formal education.
• you will need:
  • an internet browser, and word processing software.
  • simple online tools to aid, collate, publish and share your findings.

Course Topics:

1. Introduction to a variety of techniques to enable learners to understand who made their clothes.
2. Teach learners how to use this knowledge to influence the fashion industry so that it values people, the environment, creativity, and profit in equal measure.
3. Enable learners to gain knowledge and practical skills for thinking about the global economy and who makes the clothes.
4. Encourage learners to consider themselves as active global citizens who can enable change.
5. Provide tools with which learners can spread the knowledge acquired in the course.

Course Outcome:

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Explain garment supply chains.
• Explore the interdependence of places, resources, and the people upon which supply chains rely.
• Investigate your own clothing: its brand, where it was made, and from what materials.
• Identify and employ search techniques for investigating the policies employed by clothing brands.
• Reflect on how to use your findings to influence brands.

Course Benefits:

If you join this course, you will have the opportunity to:

• Complete them as quickly or slowly as you like.
• An international network of learners.
• Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course.
• Earn your certificate.

How to Apply:

To apply for this course, press "Join course for free", then you can:

1. Sign in with your Facebook or Google account:
2. Or register with your:
   • name.
   • email.
   • set password.
3. You will receive a confirmation email to start your course.

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